jonwolfpell
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| How important is the efficiency of a speaker to you? High sensitivity speakers w/ true bass extension necessitates large volume cabinets which can mean more $ & potential room / aesthetic placement challenges. That said, as John Atkinson often points out, high sensitivity drivers have substantia... | |
| Is tube sound vs solid state easier to distinguish using headphones? I’ve never done direct comparisons between tubed & solid state headphone amps but have many times over 40+ years w/ speakers albeit it never involved the recent super high solid state amps of $30 K + or so. We all know the negative aspects of ... | |
| Free air, tighter bass - snake oil or cheap tweaks? Back in the later 80’s during my first real chapter of high end audio, I had a pair of Conrad Johnson Premier One powered Duntech Marquis’s ( forerunner of Dunlavys) which were very good & only missing the last little bit of full low end exten... | |
| Turntable Cartridge upgrade question. I also recommend the Hana ML. It’s very balanced & does everything well if not quite state of the art at any one thing. It’s quite low output will necessitate a good phono amp which can get pricey so maybe their higher output version might be ... | |
| Help me pick some new or used speaker cables I really enjoy Triode Wire Labs (out of Massapequa, NY) cables & not crazy priced. Worth checking out. | |
| A valentine poem to tubes Glass amps are a pleasure That many folks treasure While sand amps abound And M... | |
| A valentine poem to tubes So clever & funny! Thanks all. | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers For a specific example of the inconsistency of measurements vs perceived sound, consider Benchmark amps, preamps & DACS. From all the reviews I’ve seen, they measure as good as if not better than just about anything at any price but don’t soun... | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers Without trying to be too "new agey", everything changes & moves in a spiral from the massive galaxies in our universe down to the smallest nano - particles & all in between including footballs, branches on a tree, threads on a screw, sprin... | |
| InnuOS Sense 2.6.0. I have an Innuos Zenith Mark 3 & tried to do the update but it froze up during the process & the unit wouldn’t boot up at all., contacted support & they were quick to respond, set up a personal time to live chat & logged into the u... | |
| Best Covers So many great songs! Bonnie Raitt’s cover of John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery” is also very good. | |
| Cream — Stormy Monday Soulshine is up there w/ the Allman Bros classics w/ great guitar work & Gregg’s vocal is also outstanding. I never got why some of of Cream’s recordings are so poor. It’s a shame because the music is excellent! Their engineers must have b... | |
| Integrated for Devore O/93 Might want to check out Rogers High Fidelity. As high a build quality as there is in tube amps, sound excellent, lifetime warranty! There are a few available on Audiomart and both new & used directly from the manufacturer. There are pretty ar... | |
| Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K + whatever for Volti Audio Rivals. Other than some big JBL’s, old Altecs, the bigger two Klipsch’s, the Rivals will kick the most if not all of the others mentioned to the curb & sound very good doing so. They’re not crazy big or funny looking... | |
| Your greatest high end audio purchase!!! Snell A - II’s in 1982 powered by a pair of Hafler DH - 200’s strapped for mono I built. Got me started on this never ending path. Basis 2500 Turntable w/ their Vector 4 arm in 2003 w/ a ZYX mc cartridge & Art Audio Vinyl 1 phono amp. Still ... |