kennyc
Responses from kennyc
| Good old days I use variety of components to listen analytically, relaxful, or getting emotionally overwhelmed by the music: detailed carts, musical wood and stone carts, SPU carts, SS linear neutral, tube midrange magic including flea watt amps like my 300B. | |
| Are you interested in the new generation of "old school" design loudspeakers? Are you interested in the new generation of "old school" design loudspeakers No, not if the OP means nostalgic or appearance. I go strictly for performance goals within my budget so follow the latest technology components. Because this is my ... | |
| Thanks to Paul McGowan My wife often gives me dirty looks, although I’m often clueless, I doubt it’s racist :) @fertguy congratulations on your new component | |
| Are audiophile products designed to initially impress then fatigue to make you upgrade? planned obsolesce You are mistaken. It's not planned obsolescence (top down thinking), rather it's cost/benefit - how much time and resources does one have to invest and what are the future expected cash flows. Companies must operate at at le... | |
| Casual listening I have 2 systems. SS for accuracy and critical listening to individual instruments/voices and dynamic power/speed, tubes for that midrange magic and for relaxing. | |
| OMG Moment Perhaps the OPs torso and/or neck is longer than average and not included within Wilson's engineered dispersion pattern :) | |
| Dark Horse DAC I honestly don’t understand this negativity. Here the OP is trying to share his 2k DAC find as maybe a great deal at that price point, but some comments seem to only discourage such sharing: - it’s doesn’t compare to more expensive Lampi DACs -... | |
| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops Demagnetizer: $1.9K CS Port IME1 $1.8k DS Audio ION-001 Since you got different results with different vinyl LPs, makes me wonder if different vinyl has unique static electricity. | |
| What speakers work with low wattage class A amps @arhgef What is make and model of the Class A amp and speakers that you demoed and liked? It may help us to narrow your choices. | |
| What speakers work with low wattage class A amps 25 Watts “or less” The lower the amp wattage, the more limiting choices of speakers. There’s a big difference between what speakers will drive 25amps vs a flea watt amp such as 4watts. I have a 300B 8watt amp which necessitates that I have a ... | |
| Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops Seems it’s either a vinyl problem or a static electricity problem. New vinyl is not clean, it benefits from a good cleaning- ultrasonic works best. Static electricity can also cause pops n clicks - best to try to eliminate. While many products t... | |
| Harbeth 40.3's. Should I buy them? +1 @bfleetwood - better midrange vs more neutral linear dynamic lows highs | |
| Streamers made in America? I am old enough to remember when "Made in China" on a product meant that it actually was cheap and poorly built. Those days are long gone. I am old enough to remember when "Made in JAPAN" on a product meant that it actually was cheap and poorly... | |
| Tube rolling newbie- how to choose NOS tubes Thanks all, I’ll look up Brent Jesse. I have to be careful as I have an additive personality and may get caught in the accumulating tubes rabbit hole. | |
| Incredible improvement in sound quality I use a Waterpik showerhead set to center pulsating blast to clean out my ear canal. A doctor would also use significant water pressure to clean ears. I figure that the initial air would cushion the eardrum, then column of water in the canal wou... |