jwei
Responses from jwei
| Are You a Swifty? Nope | |
| Best HIFI Stores LA/Orange @yyzsantabarbara Ah so -- Brooks Berdan is in the process of relocating to the Seattle area. However, it seems there may still be some sales activity at the old Monrovia location. Their phone message indicates the store is open on Saturdays 11... | |
| Best HIFI Stores LA/Orange I haven't studied their speaker lineups for match with 300b amps, but I know both these shops provide great service offering high end product >> Audio Element, in Pasadena Brooks Berdan, in Monrovia | |
| Stuff You Tried To Love Pair of Spendor S3/5 speakers for a child's bedroom system. i would have liked better highs and bass. Even the midrange felt flat. Still got'em on a shelf in the garage. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Here's a nice jazz cover of Herb Alpert's "A Taste of Honey." | |
| Effect of Internet Service Quality on Streaming? Sure. I like to relax and listen to music on holidays. Few years ago, my internet stopped working for a whole day on Labor Day. Way to go Spectrum! Glad I had my vinyl and CDs. | |
| A persistent hummmm... I had a hum problem once, although mine did not involve tube amplification nor high efficiency speakers. I found isolation units from Jensen Transformers were effective when all else failed. Of course, I had to get comfortable with the idea of i... | |
| Best Circa 90's CDP Forgot to mention the Mark Levinson 39 CD player. Came out in the '90s and upgraded to the 390S in the 2000s. | |
| Best Circa 90's CDP Sony SCD-1 also plays SACD. Ah! Njoe Tjoeb 98 was a Dutch-modified Marantz CD player that had favorable reviews. | |
| Anthony (Tony) Cordesman has passed away RIP AHC! I was a fan of his reviews in Stereophile and then TAS. And I remember seeing him interviewed during the Gulf War. What a fine learned gentleman. | |
| Best Covers And one of my all time faves, Charles Earland’s cover of "More Today Than Yesterday’ originally by Spiral Staircase. Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, reportedly in a single take. | |
| Best Covers Atlanta Rhythm Section's cover of "Spooky" by the Classics IV. | |
| Favorite Obscure Rock Song Not sure if it qualifies as "obscure" but I like All of You by Don Felder from the Heavy Metal soundtrack. | |
| Your greatest high end audio purchase!!! My vinyl rig -- VPI TNT HRX fitted with a Graham Phantom arm mounting a Koetsu Rosewood Signature cartridge with a custom Gingko dustcover. Feeds a Manley Steelhead phono preamp. | |
| Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs @larryi Ditto for Three Blind MIce and Yamamoto Trio's "Midnight Sugar." |