kennymacc
Responses from kennymacc
| Full loom of the same cable brand vs mixing and matching. There's always been more than one way to skin a cat to achieve the best possible sound quality in any given audio rig. And, cabling is no exception. It's all good, whether you go with a full loom of the same cable brand or not. It all depends o... | |
| Best "Bang for the Buck" you have owned? Revel Salon 2 speakers!!! | |
| Beryllium Tweeters Any metal dome or ribbon tweeter can be bright depending on what you use for cabling and electronics with them. | |
| Audiophile frame of mind Well, as an experienced audiophile for over 25 years, I’m here to tell you something that you probably already know. You can delay the purchase of the upgraded cables all you want. But, the desire is still there, and it’ll always be there, nagging... | |
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? Nope!!!! Never happened to me. Over the years, every single time I've changed or upgraded a power cable, whether it be for an amp or any other component, I always heard some kind of change in their sound. Sometime the change in sound was subtle... | |
| Best DAC’S $5k to $15k There's about a million DACs out there to choose from. Who knows which one is best? Auditioning and trail-and-error is the only way to know for sure which one sounds best to your ears. Period!!! Me, personally, within my price range, I thought... | |
| What the Best Dac have you heard or owned. How could you tell it was that good. After auditioning and comparing my incredible Ayre Acoustics QX-5 Twenty Streaming DAC to several other more expensive reference DACs (and some less expensive), I opted for the Ayre, and I have been extremely happy with it every since. I felt that... | |
| Back to the DAC I would most highly recommend one of the upper-end Ayre Acoustics DACs. I find that the Ayre Acoustics DACs have a beautifully natural, super high resolution, organic, smooth, extremely dynamic, detailed and transparent signature sound. I have ... | |
| Speaker cable change?? I wound recommend one of the more affordable Audioquest speaker cables. | |
| Back to the DAC My Ayre Acoustics QX-5 Twenty streaming DAC is a superb DAC, as well as a superb streamer. Happy listening. | |
| Esoteric Amps with Revel Salon 2 Speakers I’ve owned both the Salon 1 and Salon 2 speakers. I currently own Salon 2 speakers. The Salon 2 speakers are notoriously inefficient, so they need lots of high power, current, and damping factor, capable of opening them up and controlling their ba... | |
| Ethernet Cables - what are you using and why? As a general rule, I tend to purchase all things high end audio to the limits of my affordability, i.e, if I can afford the upgraded $1000 ethernet cable over the lesser $650 ethernet cable, I'll buy the $1000 ethernet cable. I currently use Shun... | |
| Guess who has new speakers in their lab? Jay’s a nice, passionate, audiophile fellow who’s able put together some really awesome, ultra high-end audio systems that he likes to highlight on youtube. I really enjoyed viewing Jay’s videos when was solely dedicated to purchasing audio gear, ... | |
| Incredible Audioquest Firebird Source Power Cables & Thunderbird Interconnects!!! @jafox As you well know, high end audio isn't a necessity, it's a fun hobby, which is all based upon pure passion and pleasure. This is why I never concern myself with how other audiophiles spend their money. I could care less how anyone else ... | |
| Is toeing speakers a bad idea? @emergingsoul Like all things high end audio, there’s never a one size fits all scenario. And that includes speaker placement. One must experiment with toe-in in order to find the perfect speaker placement in a particular room. That’s the only w... |