jonwolfpell
Responses from jonwolfpell
| Basic Questions Soix nailed it! Very easy to have 2 channel sound separated out from your home theater using the same pair of main speakers w/ that scenario. I suggest you get a good integrated amp w/ a good phono amp & home theater bypass. You can connect yo... | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl I guess satire is a lost art. I obviously knew the initial statement was a joke and was offering an analogy. I happened to own the streamer he mentioned ( relatively new purchase) a really good turntable/arm/ cartridge ( for a long time) in ... | |
| Welcome to Hell, here's your 8-Track Hilarious Dekay! Made my day! Thanks | |
| Digital is far better than vinyl Wonder why you bothered to go do “high end” on the turntable? A Kenner close & play from 1968 would have sufficed for your highly scientific endeavor. How did your tests turn out comparing the Toyota Corolla vs the McLaren GT? | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live Thanks Lewm. I heard the Voltis at last year’s Capitol Audiofest in MD & I bought the pair at the show! Don’t need a sub , nice looking, “normal”, well finished boxes that are easy to place & easy to drive. I’ve been very happy with them f... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live I didn’t read all the responses but here’s my $.02. Of course nothing compares to good quality live music. There are too many steps along the way to reproducing music in our home w/ varying degrees of sound degradation. For the type of music m... | |
| Old school shootout: Snell A/III vs. Original B&W 801 I owned the A- III’s & really enjoyed them. I had a VPI turntable, Souther Linear Arm, Adcom Cross Coil cartridge, PS Audio preamp & then an Audible Illusions pre amp, Amber power amps& then a Conrad Johnson Premier Four power amp. Th... | |
| Tonearm Parallel? The late , brilliant AJ Conti of Basis Turntables said that he thought that being obsessed w/ “perfect” VTA was mostly a waste of time because records can be different thicknesses & can be cut to different depths too. And this was a man OBSESS... | |
| So, I listened to a $1Million Dollar System Dodgealum - fully agreed! I listened two different times over the weekend at the Capitol Audiofest last year to the big Von Schweickert / VAC system & came away baffled how it sounded nothing like live music! After. Just a few minutes, I had ... | |
| Vintage tube sound from a modern amp The first & certainly one of the all time greats in this category you’re defining is the McIntosh MC 275! “New & improved” version sounds Excellent, solid build quality & a timeless design. To me, in its power range of about 90 real ... | |
| What Gear Has Disappointed You? NAD 7 channel Surround Sound Receiver. I forget the model ( sort of intentionally) but it was the top of the line & pretty expensive. Performed well, sounded quite good for both stereo music listening & for movie watching & had plenty ... | |
| What should be mandatory in every professional published review- snapsc- fully agreed & of course what ancillary equipment was used & what other equipment was tried w/ the reviewed piece. Stereophile is good w/ this, Absolute Sound often not. | |
| Are advances in technology making speakers better? Good horn loaded speakers were designed & made in the 40’s, 50’s &60’s(Klipsch, Western Electric, Altec), electrostatics in the 50’s, Good acoustic suspension & ported woofers in the 50’s & 60’s, (AR, KLH, Advent, JBL) AMT tweeter... | |
| Speaker Suggestions $30K Sasha DAW competitor? Of course speakers are a matter of taste & we all have aspects of music reproduction we value the most. I have heard several of the speakers suggested & liked most in different ways. That said, they all sound like good “hifi” to me & n... | |
| Large Advents (1974) woofer pops with deep bass. Bad surround may be the issue & hopefully no permanent damage has been done., There are a few surround re- foaming kits available on eBay for short $ for the original Large Advents that are worth trying & because there were so many of the... |