jjss49
Responses from jjss49
| Please Educate Me Our DACs are processing digital information the same as our microwaves, yet we judge them very differently. The difference I believe is that music is an aesthetic pursuit - thus the method of delivery comes under more scrutiny.... thus the SONIC R... | |
| GAT versus ET-5 Conrad Johnson preamps GAT has more transparency and impact, sharper cleaner transients and digs deeper in the bass, ET5 more romantic in comparison (ET5 is not romantic in an absolute sense, certainly among top tier tube linestages, but relative to the GAT it is) | |
| Marantz - the holy grail for SACD clickbait title, and untrue | |
| Chick Corea i was stunned to hear this news over the radio just a few minutes ago while driving himi just saw him in concert only about a year and a half ago at sfjazz center - it was a brilliant show with a young trio and he was totally engaged, vibrant and ... | |
| Audio equipment reviews @russ69 i agree there is not a conspiracyit is a capitalist eco system... so one needs to understand who benefits how, how reviews are an adjunct marketing tool, then one can decide how to assess what is put out there for consumption | |
| Anyone heard Cornwall IVs with McIntosh tube gear? i have not in any great length in a known environment, i am neither a mcintosh nor a klipsch guy, so have not had their gear in house (other than a pair of low end klipsch speakers for a short time)but from what i understand about their sound prof... | |
| Please Educate Me there are so many people on this board who feel they are entitled to be nasty and be critical while expressing little respect and courtesy for others, it is pitifulat the same, some people feel entitled to ask broad questions that if answered prop... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? it is funny to see people get defensive when their brand of speaker is called out to not sound good to other folkssynergy and equipment matching is THE critical skill in this pursuit... some speakers innately play brighter and harsher than others.... | |
| Are your current amps and other gear the best you've ever had? this pursuit should be so easy as to just define the ’best’ then stopquestions like this are naive and overly simplistic | |
| Do different streamers really sound different when using an external DAC search bar above is your friend | |
| Audio equipment reviews reviewers need their bread buttered too... so these are the consequencesreviews are only worth so much... if the reviewer is good, he/she will do comparisons to competing gear and speak about contrasts but many reviews don't even do thatthat is al... | |
| Bookshelf speakers for small room sooooooooooooooooooooooo many choices | |
| EL 34 tubes @jasonbourne52 i have had poor luck w JJ EL34’s in the past in both sound quality (harsh treble and mids) as well poor reliability ... but others seem to have better experiences more recently | |
| Please Educate Me @paul6001 https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHansBeekhuyzenChannel/videossearch within his videos for several seminal discussions of analog vs digital music production and fidelity, and how to make digital sound right | |
| Who else is using old cables/interconnects, and is happy? my lovely sounding straightwire maestro and various purist and tara labs ic’s are still regularly in use, and used as references when presented with the hot new cables of the week...... as are mid and low line wireworld and xlo's from the 90's... ... |