kennyc
Responses from kennyc
| Recommendation for Digital Coax I’ve read that digital cables less than 1.5 meters may cause reflections. | |
| Testing for Dirty Electrical Power Seems like the best audiophile power solution is to run on battery like the Stromtank. Unfortunately it’s currently out of my budget and I don’t have room. Power regeneration garnered mixed reviews, especially with PS Audio products. I followed... | |
| World's Best Stereo System ?... +1 pcrkhr sonic preferences are subjective. People have different priorities values realism, warmth, detail, soundstaging, dynamics, etc. tempered by their finances. Audio chains are imperfect facsimile of live events. | |
| need amp recommendations for more separation of instruments I know the Odyssey (IIRC) Khartago is used as one of the amps used by Alon Wolf of the cutting edge speaker designer of Magico. Seems like one of the rare sonic bargains available. Their upper line Kismet might also be a high price/performance opt... | |
| Warm and accurate bookshelves that can handle volume Show conditions often not ideal, heard Magico S5 mk2 often sound great, but only ok at last AXPONA. But you’ll likely hear something that “you” favor subjectively and will give much more examples /information than you currently have. Helps if yo... | |
| Warm and accurate bookshelves that can handle volume AXPONA is coming up. Maybe worth your time to attend as it perhaps the 2nd largest high-end audio show I’m the world. I went there last year to audition, choose, then purchase my speakers (got a sweet deal). Lots of high end audio systems , comp... | |
| You know when you are dealing with a BS company.... I surmise that this whole OP started is when the marketing material used “numbers” that really bother some analytical person thinking “you can’t use numbers based on nothing”. Really puts a bee in their bonnet. | |
| Is there anything better than live recordings? There’s a difference between sonics and content. I assumed that the OP was addressing sonics as this is a high-end audio forum | |
| SPU People: I love my Royal N. Which SPU will I like even better? I picked up a variety to hear what SPUs have to offer: Ortofon SPU Classic GM E MkII - close to original sound Ortofon SPU E GM Gold - good reviews Ortofon SPU Century - likely top of line I haven’t heard them yet though. | |
| You know when you are dealing with a BS company.... +1 leorousseau | |
| You know when you are dealing with a BS company.... Seems like a lot of criticism for cable’s marketing hype which is designed to differentiate themselves from the crowded field and to obviously stimulate sales. How should a cable manufacturer market their product? If they spent a considerable am... | |
| Is there anything better than live recordings? Live can be good to bad, studio can be good to bad- Seems like addressing a hypothetical “ideally equal” is a waste of time as superior sonics should be the goal regardless of live or not | |
| Coaxials - Reality vs. Experience? I’m a fan of speaker design guru Andrew Jones who makes great sounding speakers at their price point. His new MoFi SourcePoint 10 garnered many very favorable reviews that I’ll likely get a pair even though I don’t have the need. He reportedly s... | |
| Why so few devices with BNC's?? I purchased a Chord MScaler to use with my current and future DACs, but Chord’s BNC connection is a pain as many DACs do not support. If I get a custom cable with BNC only on one end, selling it later may be impossible. | |
| Need advice for upgrading my analog setup Although the OP originally stated he did not want to change his preamp, seems that suggesting an upgrade to match the level of his turntable and cartridge is simply trying to help him achieve better sonics. Pointing out weak links in the audio cha... |