jond
Responses from jond
| Duke Ellington Let me just say welcome to the neighborhood!! I live right up the street at 10th and L. I don't have any Ellington recommendations though I love his music, but I'm sure others can help there. | |
| Scientific Fidelity Crowne Joule 24k Signatures Derrick they sound cool, can you post a pic somewhere? | |
| I profess no knowledge re. Professor Longhair... Rhino came out with a "Best Of" 2 disc set about 7-8 years ago that's a must own for Fess fans. Look for it online, I'm sure it's still available. Happy listening! | |
| persoanlity and speaker preference MrT,Something tells me you have some sort of cone/stat/planar hybrid right? | |
| Is this safe? Why not just get some good RCA/XLR adapters from Ayre or BAT and try it out. If the sound isn't good enough just sell them. | |
| persoanlity and speaker preference Cones/boxes here, and I'm mean, stupid, and arrogant. So what's your point? | |
| Reliable valve suppliers on web Luna,Are you by chance in the UK? Just asking because you said valve and not tube. If you are then you might prefer UK suppliers rather than US, right? | |
| I made up my mind what to buy for Triangle Celius Congratulations!! You'll love the system, no matter which amp you choose, Triangle speakers adore tubes. Personally I prefer EL34's to KT88's so I would go with the One. Happy listening!! | |
| What speakers use a "minimal" crossover? Reference 3A speakers have no crossovers and are very efficient, perfect for SET's and other low power amps. | |
| Do you know of small speakers that sound ''BIG'' ? My JMlabs Micro-Utopias play quite large in my fairly small room. They're more than sufficient and my previous speakers were big floorstanding Alon Lotus'. I would say inroom bass get's into the mid 40's for me and it's quite tight and punchy. | |
| what are your views regarding reviewing styles ? I would have to say that your second example of a "review", a factual description without opinion, isn't really a review. If I want product descriptions I'll go to a manufacturers website, but what I, and many others, want is the opinion of an exp... | |
| what is a high end component ? Um, who cares? I mean if you like a piece of gear then you like it, who cares if some arbitrary expert says it's "high end". I honestly think that it's thinking like that which makes audio so forboding for novices who might appreciate a good stereo. | |
| Best DAC $1000 and under used There is a balanced Timbre TT-1 dac on here right now for $850, list about $4K. I have no relation to the seller but I used to own this dac and it's still a great performer and very analog like. It was underrated even in it's day, the company is o... | |
| Feedback search Also if you're not looking at one of his ads, there is a member lookup feature on the front page of the website. Just click on it and then type in his moniker and you can see feedback and lots of other info as well. Hope that helps. | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need I'll take any jazz cd's you don't want, and I am serious if it can be worked out. |