john_l
Responses from john_l
| Upsampleing? You are right on.You've probably seen those graphs of a curving soundwave. The original musician's sound will be a true smooth curve. You can think of a CD recording as a curving stairway used to model a true curve. Hz means times per second and i... | |
| Vandersteen 3A and DENON 5803; COMPATIBLE? The 170w 5803 will be able to handle them, no problem. I occasionally ran my older 125w Denon 1025 with my van 3aSigs and it was a good sounding system with a surprising amount of bass. The higher quality home theater receivers do sound pretty goo... | |
| Quad 11-L Owners Warning: I'm a quad and rogue dealer. The 11L's are fairly sweet natured but also very detailed. They seem to work well with anything. They are definitely a speaker that benefits from refined electronics. The best price/performance combo I have he... | |
| What are the most under-appreciated products? The Taylo reference monitors. Nothing touches them - at any price. | |
| Linn Classik Movie The Right Choice? I would say it's ok if you mate it to some efficient speakers of 90db+. The tradeoff you are making is power for sound quality/compactness at the 3K price point. There are some televisions that will have video switching built into them. My Sony XB... | |
| Amplifier recommendations for Adcom/Paradigm Ref. The 5802 is quite a sweetheart amplifier. It didn't sound like I expected. It has more of a warm liquid mosfet sound than anything. You might want to give one a try since you are already using the matching preamp. Heck you can resell it pretty fas... | |
| Need Amplifier Recommendations (disclaimer, I'm a pass labs dealer)I've owned the virgo II's and the avanti centuries. I used the virgo's with aleph 2's and the avanti's with an X-350. Adding a big amplifier does change them quite a bit. The bass takes on this iron-fisted quali... | |
| NAD C350 or Cambridge A500? I've read that the C320 is also very good sounding through less powerful. | |
| Looking for a Speaker in the $15,000 Range Disclaimer: I sell Quad, Pass Labs and Wolcott. I would first take a look at trying a good subwoofer in your setup. I run my 988s alone or or with a storm subwoofer in my 25 x 14 vaulted room. I use them primarily with P220 Wolcotts. I prefer them... | |
| Does your system reflect your personality? Mine doesn't work very often. | |
| Mephisto II transport vs Enkianthus dac I have heard the two together and the sound was superb. In my own system I used my enkthuisas with my phillips 880, Sony 7700 and my hotrodded SCD-1 as a transport. I found that the dac was remarkably insensitive to the transport quality. It did s... | |
| To which other did you compared your Enkianthus to It was a year 2001 24/192. Beautiful piece. Both in sound and appearance. Very musically voiced. The tubed metronome CD players are voiced similarly. | |
| Tubed CD Player I've heard a few of them. The Ah! is my number one choice for under $1000. Not as detailed as a big bucks player, but very very good and nice to listen to. The model I heard had all the options except the 24/192.For high dollar tubed players the A... | |
| To which other did you compared your Enkianthus to Other than the Meitner, I think the Enkthuisas 24/192 and the Audio Aero 24/192 set the bar for CD playback. Additionally one of my friends had the big dollar DCS setup and traded it for Audiomeca gear. He felt it was sonically superior. It's as g... | |
| What is the best sounding SACD on the market? The new Meitner DAC is easily the best I've heard. I haven't heard the DCS or classe. Still the Sony's and the Marantz SA-1 are well above most of what's out there. |