jjss49
Responses from jjss49
| Recommendation for amp truth is, many decent amps can work well with the baby harbethslike all good speakers, they are fairly revealing of the source, so choose wiselyharbeths have good transparency but a warm overall tone, so if you like even more of that character the... | |
| Is D for Dry? Class D... progress is inevitable, some times for the better sometimes for the worsein audio, there are always great engineers and impassioned music lovers striving for positive progress using new techniques and technologieson the other hand, many people don... | |
| What DAC upgrade made you say “DAMN, that sounds SO MUCH better than my last DAC”? seems to me the flaw in the op’s question is as much about how bad the prior dac was, compared to the new oneyou go from the dull lifeless onboard dac in a bluesound node or a yamaha streaming dac to a decent (but hardly outstanding) high end dac ... | |
| What is the most important component to consider while building a new system? overall system synergy, including the room, is what matters mostso the question by the op is better asked, given a room to work with, which component should one start with, when building a system anewto that question, in my view, is the speaker ch... | |
| Recommendation for amp small hegel -- h95 or used h90 or rost | |
| Buying used vs new? definitely not worth doingsend me link please | |
| Is my anti-skating too strong. https://www.sound-smith.com/faq/how-do-i-adjust-anti-skating-my-cartridge | |
| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” Apparently not the tippy top yet, or something to that effect :)well if we specifically define non shouty horns as ’tippy top’ then i suppose you are correctover the years i have heard avantgarde duos/trios, sadurnis, klipschorns and cornwalls, tu... | |
| Best sub for music, Best sub is no sub, There's nothing below 160hz, hardly a few cello notes and kettle drums, You guys are fooling youself. hard to imagine someone with over 1000 posts here is this ignorant about the subject | |
| VAC preamps - too expensive? vac makes great gear, has for decades, kevin hayes is a brilliant designer, a perfectionist (and a very nice, stand up person too) - i still own a set of his 4-chassis pa90c amps, which was one of the very small handful of original tip-top rated a... | |
| Speaker Cables? why all the hype for expensive speaker wire? @ebm Because its fun to spend big bucks on speaker cable.hahaha that is the best answer of the week! love it!almost as much fun as setting benjamins on fire... | |
| How long can preamp tubes last? Tubes in my Mcintosh C220 have been in place for almost ten years, used on average about 15-20 hours per week. When I had the preamp serviced this past fall, I had the tubes tested. They tested like new. So, the answer is, a very long time.fify --... | |
| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” No proper horn is shouty.i would have to disagree w this, based on my experience... i have had good well respected horn speakers, and also heard some very very tip top horn systems, and to me there is still noticeable horn/shouty coloration | |
| Atma-Sphere MA-1 tube rolling i too have wondered why russian power tubes are very good (i use el34 and kt88 variants), yet the sound of russian low level tubes like 6922 6sl7/sn7 are rather poor (lacking midrange bloom) and russian rectifiers like gz34's are abysmal in qualit... | |
| What are your top 5 Windham Hill recordings? @calvinandhobbes i totally forgot tuck n patti were originally with windham hillyes indeed! they are among my all time favorites - brilliant artists and wonderful people tooreally miss the ritual of going to their thanksgiving or xmas live shows a... |