jjss49
Responses from jjss49
| How long ago did you catch the bug? 1979, as a college freshman, at tech hifi in providence r-i, first hanging out, became a go-fer, then worked there part time on big sale days, then became a regular inventory clerk and sales person on fridays and holidays weekends through the bala... | |
| Bought powerful/expensive Amp+Speakers but plan to use an old preamp , am I crazy? good to go... i think... :) or is it gone to grave?? 😂 | |
| Bluesound Node 2 yes and yes | |
| Wireless vs. Ethernet for Streaming wifi works perfectly well for streamed music, if it works well... if you follow me lots of people, places have wifi that is not implemented well, too much traffic etc etc modern mesh networks, as @nekoaudio says, solves alot of the past problems... | |
| Your sweetest liar cary 300b sei, wavelength cardinal xs have had these for 25 years, won't sell em, even though i still cannot find the right speaker i can use them with ... 😪 | |
| Your single most significant purchase mistake? early class d mark levinson mono blocks circa 2006/7... omg... how can something that looks so pretty sound sooo bad... @mijostyn ... the missus is on line 2 holding for you...😂 | |
| Experiencing speaker imbalance, while amp headphone output is fine. Any ideas? @gnarmite glad you figured it out did you take @oldhvymec ’s advice and get pepper spray too? he also keeps a fire extinguisher handy next to his listening chair too, as i understand it great mechanics are always prepared... 😂👍 | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? a word to the wise On the "what is special about Harbeth?" question, here’s part of my answer. Having auditioned an insane amount of speakers - the Harbeth have just stuck out in terms of being able to produce the "gestalt" of the human voice, ... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? few more points to add to the discussion, given recent comments 1. i don’t think there should be any exclusive emphasis on harbeths... it is just that it is the topic of this thread, where the op specifically asked what is so special about harbet... | |
| About users with hidden agendas so based on the comments below, seems we can resolve a lot of this with an open promise by ted that he will use, and only use, his username ’ted_denney’ with ending subscript stating ’ted denney iii, lead designer...’ -- as he just did his most re... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? @lemonhaze curious -- what is your stake in this? there are people who like harbeths, others that don’t -- clearly you don’t, we get it sizeable portions of the hi-fi industry wouldn’t exist without the notion of sympathetic distortion that ma... | |
| About users with hidden agendas @astolfor thanks for explaining your experience and view on this, appreciate it... and i understand and empathize you seem much wiser for having had the experience, as unpleasant as it was, and i hope you are now much better able to extract goo... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? i too owned early mon 40’s -- in the 2003/4 time frame iirc (these were the original monitors, grey britex cabinets with side handles)... had them for about a year, sold my spendor sp100’s to get them -- a big mistake which i continually regretted... | |
| Tidal vs Qubuz - Steely Dan "Jack of Speed" @stevehardy1 Man there are some seriously condescending snobs on this blog. haha -- well this is certainly true, but you did open the door with your op... peace bro...enjoy the music | |
| Experiencing speaker imbalance, while amp headphone output is fine. Any ideas? even well tested tubes, shipped, handled, packed/unpacked, can sometimes suffer from a version of infant mortality op - wish you good luck, arc should and will take care of you |