jl35
Responses from jl35
| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! I have found replacing the jumpers and fuses to be quite helpful and inexpensive..Magnepan is now offering upgrade stands for some of their models ... | |
| What's your experience with snooty HiFi salesmen? Audio Dimensions was a great place...I've never really had problems with sales people at audio stores, though certainly some much better than others...and it has to be rough on them, having so many walk-ins, knowing they want to audition, but will... | |
| Today’s Friday five from TMR I ordered 2 baking trays for my mono blocks... | |
| Let's see your office systems It’s a great sounding amp at a great price, but has high gain and can be difficult to match with speakers and preamp. There are a few threads about this, including a current one. They were originally released at $1299, and at that price a long tim... | |
| Speaker Cable Recomendations Someone is selling Cerious Matrix speaker cables (no connection to me ) ...great cables at great price (even new)...I've been using a pair for a few years... | |
| Let's see your office systems Schiit Modius e - Schiit Freya S - Nuforce STA200. - Salk Monitors and Audience The One speakers alternate...though I just bought a pair of the Audience small angled stands, and I think the Audience now will stay on desktop... | |
| Nuforce STA200 issue. Rumble every couple minutes it can be a difficult amp...but great sound and incredible value in right system... | |
| Nuforce STA200 issue. Rumble every couple minutes I’ve had 3 over the years, though match could be difficult, never any problems...always worked well with passive pre, and for me a great match with Schiit Freya S preamp...and low efficiency speakers | |
| We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often we buy ESL speakers because we like how they sound, realizing we need the right amp... | |
| I'm curious about the Schiit Audio Modi 3e I had thought the Modi and Modius went to e version, after the AKM factory burned down some time ago, and eventually Schiit went to ESS chips... | |
| PS Audio Direct Stream MK2 DAC I've had mine for more than a week, it is quiet and glitch free..and sounds great... | |
| Speakers and amplifiers show audiophiles are confused. it's not difficult to get a manufacturers recommendation on the speakers you refer to...and then you gotta listen... | |
| We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often yes Erik, the manufacturer providing false information is a very different issue than knowingly buying difficult speakers and not being prepared... | |
| what are your top "audio bargins" in your system history? Portal Panache Integrated...I had a few, but after surgery needed a unit with remote...I think they were all made in 2003, would love find one and had it refurbished/upgraded by Jon S...oddly, I was just thinking about that this morning... | |
| We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often good thing there are so many great speakers out there...no issue to me what other people like, or designers choose to design...if a speaker is very demanding but the buyer is good with that, so be it... |