jwm
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| So Many Apogees for sale, and so few takers Jason Bloom of Apogee was the biggest jerk I ever met in audio. When you would walk into his room at CES he was so arrogant and he would not let you play music you knew well. He was the kind of person you would want to kick in the ass. The exact o... | |
| Linear tracking vs. Pivoted tracking tone arms. Take my word, it sure does do groove damage to records. | |
| Linear tracking vs. Pivoted tracking tone arms. Atmasphere my friend has a sota table with an ET arm. I think you are right about the excessive horizontal pressure. I have brought my vinyl records to him and when I returned I noticed groove noise. I am using a basis table and basis vector arm. ... | |
| 5AR4/GZ34 Rectifier Tubes The create 5AR4 is a phenomenal tube. I like it better than the Mullard. It is so clear, clean, and natural. I never went back to new old stock. I am using a Modright tube modded Oppo 95. Soundstaging improved as well as speed. I think it is do th... | |
| Has anyone heard the SimAudio 650D? Stereophile and the other mags. have always been that way. One has to hear the gear with their own ears. Just go to any trade show and compare notes to what they say and to what you hear. If you do, you probably will not read another mag. again. | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Audiozen I wasn't aware of how the PD sounded until I had it. I don't like any components that are lean. I like clear mids, but they have to be organic sounding like in live music. I am not looking for components that go the other way which is wha... | |
| Modification that has proved to be transformative Usually speakers that use only one capacitor or resistor in their crossover design is using a series crossover. Fried uses a series crossover as well. A series crossover is a lot harder to implement and not many designers use them. | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Audiozen my system tends to be on the warmer side and the PD was still lean, Lean, Lean. I can just imagine the sound of it in a Thiel, Magico system. Michael Fremer of Stereophile who likes very detailed sound got rid of the PD and now uses the S... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? If its your business I bought it used on Audiogon and had it for three months and yes I sold it to another audiofool. I could put the receipt on line, but this is not a communist country. | |
| Neodio NR22 Cd player - thoughts? The best transport I ever heard was the Forsel with its air bearing cd drive unit. | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? That does not say very much as I don't like the DCS as well. I am glad you like the MPS-5 and Koch, you are entitled to your opinion as I am to mine. I will tell you the the player I use now only cost 3,000.00 and it beat the MPS-5 hands down. I h... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Most of the high horse engineers that you so respect have no ears what so ever. I think we are going back to spec wars my TIM distortion is lower than yours. | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Audiozen I don't care who Koch is. I had the Playback Designs CD player because of the questionable raves. I put 800 hours on it and it was still lean, lean, lean. I could not wait to get rid of it. | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? The Playback design is the most analog sounding digital player, ha. It is to me the complete opposite. It is lean, lean, lean in the midrange. I won't continue on your other products. | |
| Neodio NR22 Cd player - thoughts? I like the Neodio better, but I don't think you will. |