john_beavers
Responses from john_beavers
| Riddle me this: how is carbon a conductor? I'm currently evaluating the new silver wire "conductor"/carbon shielded interconnects and speaker cable (does that answer the riddle?); which is a joint venture between Grover Huffman and Michael Wolff. Initial impressions are very positive. | |
| Reconciling analog and digital playback I have been told by those that have NOS (Non-upsampling) DACs, that these devices bridge the gap between analog sound and digital. I am considering trying it, as I recently had the experience of having a friend bring his analog rig into my all dig... | |
| Question for Meitner DAC owners I'm using a Michael Wolff Ribbon power cord also; with my Audiomeca Mehpisto II.X. My particular Source cord is his latest version (v.3 for me), which has kept all the great upper frequency sparkle and transparency that the previous versions had, ... | |
| Phillips 1000 APL mod Tvad,Vocals had more of a chesty impact and the musical instruments were less "metalic" sounding, which is the trait I've noticed of digital sound compared to pure analog. Unfortunately these impressions were had with one of my speakers having a d... | |
| Phillips 1000 APL mod I've heard it in my system. Alex brought it over to do a shoot out with my Audiomeca Mephsito II.X player. The Mephisto was superior in the area of having a more sonically black background, however, taken on pure musicality I felt the Phillips/APL... | |
| i am trying to get a smooth vinyl sound from cd Can't be done in my opinion. Digital, even SACD, will always sound...digital...because that's what it is. The digital to analog conversion waveform will always be an approximation of the real deal. It's like a digital photograph of a real object, ... | |
| Best Redbood CD Player Used/New under $7K Another vote here for the Audiomeca Mephisto II.X. I've never heard anything quite the like of this player. It's also the sharpest looking CD unit I've owned. To be honest I did feel that in a shoot out with my Mephisto, the APL mod'ed SACD1000 di... | |
| Review of Michael Wolff Carbon Ribbon Source power I now have the Gain cord and latest Source cord on my components. This now puts everything in my audio rig on a Wolff PC, which is the best way to evaluate effectiveness of a given technology or product type in my opinion. All I can say is, we're ... | |
| How many satisfied AudioMeca Mephisto 2x owners I've had my Mephisto 2x Mod 2, for less than a week. I've been burning it in with the supplied disc. So far no problems, and the sound, at least through headphones, is fantastic. I'll have my speakers and Integrated amp in two weeks, and then I'll... | |
| After 5 years, format war? What format war? It's not the format quality "edge" that decided it for me, it's the availability of the musical artists I enjoy on said format. I've got about 80 SACDs, and as much as I enjoyed them, I felt the audio quality was only marginally better in some are... | |
| Best Monitor speaker - low volume level listening "I settled on the BE's after hearing a few contenders: Spendors"Asisp,I've got an audition set up for the Spendors on Thursday, along with offerings from Quad. I'll see if I can find a local JM Labs dealer to check out the mini Utopias. | |
| Review of Michael Wolff Carbon Ribbon Source power I decided to take Michael up on his 3 week home audition offer. Glad I did. I'm the Audio forum moderator and Reviewer over on the Home Theater Talk website; below are my evaluation and review posts from the thread I started on Home Theater Talk.F... | |
| Best Used Solid State Amp for less than $5000? Jrwr,Plinius makes some great amps, and were I building my system from scratch, I'd consider a Plinius pre-amp and amp combo, but since I already have the SimAudio P-5 pre-amp, I'll stick with the likelihood of better synergy with the W-6. Unless ... | |
| Best Used Solid State Amp for less than $5000? I'm also in this position at the moment. It's come down to two contenders. Stellavox mono's vs Simaudio Moon W-6 mono's. I considered the Plinius, but really don't want a furnance in my living room. In the winter it would be nice but in summer whe... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Well, here's an article on the subject that might be of interest..http://www.vansevers.com/pdffiles/why_do_things.pdf |