jimtreanor
Responses from jimtreanor
| Krell enters the world of SACD ? Krell's 4/28/01 response to an e-mail I sent regarding rumored cancellation of the Krell SACD player:Dear Jim, Thank you for your e-mail and your referral to the source. Thanks also for your input.Dan D'Agostino is actively investigating and resea... | |
| Are Sony SACD Machine Owners Crazy?? This crazy had his 777's audio board and power supply caps and resistors upgraded (no circuit modification) for $480 and moved his modified 24/96 DAC to a secondary system after determining that the upgraded 777 did Red Book noticeably better. On ... | |
| Who make SACD machine today? The 777 (which had a street price as low as $1500) is no longer in production, but will be replaced by a multichannel model called the XA-777ES, to be released sometime this summer. It is a front-loader (the 777, like the SCD-1, was a top-loader).... | |
| Mike Elliot s ARIA..the ultimate amp? I have an "older" (6922-based voltage stage instead of the SN7's used in phild's) Elliott-modified SA-100 (designated the NP100) with a Plitron toroidal transformer. It employs a bipolar SS output stage. I've written an extensive review of the uni... | |
| SACD s to die for Virgil Thomson, The River/The Plow That Broke the Plains, Vanguard Classics. Stokowski conducting music for two Depression-era film documentaries. Very Americana. An early '60's analog recording...clean, quiet, dynamic.Duke Ellington, Blues in Orb... | |
| scd 777es sacd sony mod worth it? I had Richard Kern (Audiomod) do a $480-plus-shipping upgrade of the audio board caps (to Rels) and resistors (to Vishays) and the power supply caps (to Black Gates). After a 300-hour burn-in, both SACD and Redbook performance was significantly im... | |
| Magnepans,tweeters on inside or outside? I've tried my 1.6's both ways in a 26.5'x14'3"x7'8" room with the speakers 76" ahead of the front wall and 36" in on either side. Broadest, deepest, and most cohesive soundstage and most precise imaging occur with the tweeters outside in that conf... | |
| Too Little Choice Rcprince is on target with respect to the corporate mentality, a mindset doubtless conditioned by the numbers--last figures I saw (about a year ago) indicated that classical purchases constitute less than 3% of the U.S. market. And yet...there _ar... | |
| Final Labs Daruma Bearings, Opinons? I've tried Darumas and Aurios under my Sony SCD-777ES...the Darumas first. Made a noticeable improvement in tightening bass, rendering more stable images, etc. The Aurios made an even bigger improvement in all areas--the sonic presentation was mor... | |
| John Dunlavy On "Cable Nonsense" When I worked at Garland Audio in San Jose, CA, back in 1978, speaker designer Robert Fulton (the massive Fulton "J" was one of his products) walked in with an armload of what looked like suspension cable pilfered from the Golden Gate Bridge. "Whe... | |
| DAC or Upgraded Analogue in SACD units? I don't view onhwy61's post as contrarian, since the warranty and resale issues need to be considered carefully, and any decision to mod equipment requires a certain comfort level. So you've raised an important point. In my case, the 777 is a long... | |
| DAC or Upgraded Analogue in SACD units? I had Richard Kern of Audiomod (www.audiomod.com, located in Oak Grove, Oregon) upgrade my Sony SCD-777ES's audio board and power supply board with, as appropriate, Vishay resistors, and Rel, MIT, and Black Gate caps. This was simply a parts upgra... | |
| Levinson 360s + Sony 9000ES ? Without commenting on the performance of either component--and seconding the suggestion that you check out the thread recommended by Bmpnyc--I wouldn't let product reputation or price niche get in the way of your ears. Sometimes there are surprise... | |
| Do your Cables migrate thru your system? My interconnects follow the same migratory pattern outlined in your message...initially from the source to the preamp-amp and then upstairs to the two-channel HT system. If they ultimately get bumped from the latter, they go to one of my three kid... | |
| Power Line Conditioners The PS Audio P300's four outlets are really intended for "line-level" components only (e.g., CD transport, DAC, preamp). It's not a line conditioner, but a "power regenerator." Yes, mine runs hot (it's essentially a 150 wpc amp, after all), but do... |