jwpstayman
Responses from jwpstayman
| High Fidelity Cables? High Fidelity Cables left a LOT of unfilled customer orders when they closed the doors. Rick might be a wonderful designer, but he obviously is not a good business man - this is the second go-round, the first being Virtual Dynamics. Maybe he is ... | |
| Best server to house Roon and 4 TB of music feeding DCS Vivaldi Upsampler and Dac I will second the Wolf. I have a Luna R server with 4TB onboard and it can handle as much external storage as you might want. Dead quiet, wonderful sound quality, exceptional support for Joe P - you cannot do better! | |
| Hi-Fi Tuning Fuse Holder A word of caution- make CERTAIN that the HiFi Tuning Breaker WILL fit your panel as it is NOT a universal fit type breaker. | |
| Amp Options - Infinity Kappa 9s I would look around for a used McCormack DNA 500 for the Kappas. | |
| Warm Tube Amp(s) to Tame Hyper-Accurate Speakers? hold on a second... what speaker cables are you using to connect the 275 to the Spendors? That might make all of the difference in the world here. Let us know before doing anything drastic. | |
| Cable Quality vs Customer Service Hi Guakus - I feel your pain. There certainly should have been better, more frequent communication from the manufacturer. HOWEVER- it should also be noted that headphone cables are a major PIA - there is nothing standard about the connectors at ... | |
| Harmonic Technology Magic Link soldering issues OK - the issue is that the solder is the "lead-free" solder which is still a requirement in some parts of the globe. It has almost zero flexibility and will fracture quite easily. If you take it apart and solder using some decent (WITH lead) sil... | |
| Phono cables HI Mark, Sounds to me like you have a ground loop issue on the phono that somehow or other the Aural Thrills phono cable is masking, since you have tried many other phono cables with the same issue. Fix the problem first, THEN look at another p... | |
| Pre amp discussion/ recommendations sub $10k I would take a strong look at the Backert Labs Rhumba Extreme ($7500). Excellent tube pre with a green power supply. Superb micro and macro dynamics, exceptional tonal character, auto biased tubes, remote, dual outputs and meets your input requi... | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment So - in 2021, I purchased a Wolf AudioLuna R server, ripped all of my 1200 cd's o the hard drive, added an Eleven Audio Sagra DAC (R2R) and upgraded the pre to power interconnects to Shunyata Research Sigma V2. Also added a Gold Note PH10 and PSU... | |
| Room Treaments - Where To Begin... OK - here's the trick... to effectively correct the room acoustics, you have to measure the room acoustics and figure out what needs help. Simple... you wouldn't go to the doctor and say "I need medicine" because you know the next question is go... | |
| Do speaker cables have to rest on floor? I am sure that you have some spare cd cases which make great cable risers. Just open them up, rotate them 90 degrees and you have a nice, sturdy, inexpensive 6" cable riser. | |
| Who are the Stand Up Guy's and Gals in this Audio Industry? Just to name a few really terrific guys that are always helpful:Joe at JPS/AbyssBrian at CardasMark and Nick at RoguePeter Lederman at SoundsmithKevin Hayes at VACJoe Parvey at Wolf AudioPeter at SymposiumDonna at STOABob at Backert Labs | |
| Oh great a new hum Soundsmith has a very thorough, step by step procedure to track down the source of hum in a phono system. Here is the link:https://www.sound-smith.com/hum-and-or-noise-problems | |
| Thoughts on JRiver Media Center? Anyone using it? I have both Room and JRiver on my Wolf Audio Luna R server and I prefer the sound quality of Room for playback of ripped cd's and have compared numerous times with the same files. You might find different results in your system. |