jjss49
Responses from jjss49
| Will rebuilt Quad ESL 57s take the place on a great $30K dynamic speaker? i can personally attest that the agd audion does not 'smear' the sound... | |
| For those that have separate Streamers & DACS by reputation: innuos lumin auralic aurender (already mentioned) sonore (i use the optical rendu and roon) sotm ifi zenstream is recent candidate for high value solution... | |
| Speakers known for great midrange. tbh lots lots of speakers get the midrange right...it is more about how the midrange is portrayed in relation to the rest of the music from quads to spendors to ls3/5a's to dahlquists to vandersteens to harbeths to joseph audio to fritz to proac ... | |
| And a Happy 4th to you all! one of the few remaining, i suspect... enjoy it 😂 | |
| Recommend me a Class A Integrated Amp (or sound like Class A amp) @hilroy48 among solid state amps, i could not think of more different sounding amps than a sugden vs a kinki with sparkos... both nice in their own ways, but opposite sides of the spectrum | |
| Turn down the Volume! i think people know this, but just in case... https://www.noisyplanet.nidcd.nih.gov/parents/too-loud-too-long https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hearing_loss/what_noises_cause_hearing_loss.html https://leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/leader.FTR2.25052020... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES @fastfreight have a happy 4th! as answered earlier the only sure way to not have tidal cuts chosen by roon is to deactivate tidal... i know, goofy -- and for such a purported superman software like roon you would think they would code in this f... | |
| Best power amp for Quad 63 no doubt well made otl’s are especially well suited to drive esl’s be they quads, sanders, soundlabs, m-l's and so on such amps do require quite a commitment from the owner, and some may shy away from these amps running with many many power tubes... | |
| STREAMING - QOBUZ VS TIDAL AND ROON'S PREFERENCES my take qobuz sound infinitesimally better than tidal... both are very very good tidal has a larger library than qobuz at least for nonclassical music but qobuz selection is hardly limiting mqa music on tidal has very high variability in sound ... | |
| Looking for reliable repair for Vintage in OC, CA @dekay clearly you have crossed swords with that shop... dunno the circumstances but i am 4 of 4 over the last 5 years... proper, efficient, complete repairs every time, so they have done right by me | |
| Looking for reliable repair for Vintage in OC, CA they are in la proper but geo meyer av is superb, highly qualified | |
| Recommend me a Class A Integrated Amp (or sound like Class A amp) ime plinius are on the darker side of neutral, as are the top ayres (less so than plinius, but still...) krells, mccormacks (smc modded ones) have more extended airy treble but can be a little revealing on less well recorded material most pass l... | |
| What cable companies make the best cables and sell them directly? no shortage of options out there... | |
| Any love for Musical Fidelity integrateds? for fun, i picked up an old a308 integrated... this one was well modded with upgraded ps caps, resistors and wiring... in shipping the volume control was damaged though, just got it fixed, and man this is a very very nice sounding integrated... ve... | |
| DAC diminishing returns i never felt there is a tradeoff between detail retrieval and soundstaging... in fact in my experience, excellent detail retrieval enables excellent imaging and soundstaging... |