kevinkwann
Responses from kevinkwann
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 "If you were me, which do you prefer?"Good question! Both are really fine options. I really like the idea of trying the Jensen transformer as a stop-gap. Jensen makes really good transformers and this option might work sonically. Might.If forced t... | |
| Distortion with ARC Ref 150 and Maggie 3.7 If you plan on keeping the CAT SL1, buy the CAT JL5 amplifier. If you plan on keeping the ARC Ref 150, buy the ARC Ref5SE preamp. | |
| Beloved? Grimace, are you suggesting that a girl can serve as a substitute for a speaker or can somehow be better? | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE "Those that don't swap gear will NEVER EVER understand those who do."I'm one who doesn't understand...but I still really enjoyed your post and the several interesting points you made/addressed. | |
| Magico S5 vs Tannoy Westminster Royal SE Gentlemen, gentlemen, please...no need to bicker. The speakers both suck, they just happen to suck in very different ways. I hope that this serves to calm these turbulent waters. | |
| Mixing Atma MA1s with solid state. Maybe you can explain this Ralph: you make output transformerless amplifiers, obviously believing eliminating the output transformer yields great sonic benefits. Then you recommend Zeroes be placed in the signal path between amplifier and loudspea... | |
| emmlabs cdsa-se vs esoteric 05 +2 Charles1dad | |
| Dynavox DynaStation CD player You're right, Audiofun, on all counts. | |
| emmlabs cdsa-se vs esoteric 05 "Yeah, I thought as much."That fact that you're thinking at all is a major milestone. | |
| EVS modified Oppo 105D "I consider the Dunlavys to be the weakest link in my audio chain."Your weakest link is far better than most people's strongest link. | |
| emmlabs cdsa-se vs esoteric 05 I live in a van down by the river. | |
| emmlabs cdsa-se vs esoteric 05 "I am perfectly fine with my system..."Yet presumably in it the CDSA was "bright." If so, you have system issues. If not, your comments are merely irresponsible. | |
| emmlabs cdsa-se vs esoteric 05 "My system certainly is not subpar. Think before you assume."Why would you assume I assumed? I looked. And it is. | |
| emmlabs cdsa-se vs esoteric 05 "I have always found the EMM players very ruthlessly revealing (a kind word for bright)."I have always found people with subpar systems like yours who make criticisms like this to be dull. | |
| Lamm 1.2 vs. Pass xa 60.5 Good point, Bo. You can be sure the .8 series is vastly different than and utterly superior to every other iteration of Pass Labs amps ever created. After decades of trying, it's the .8 series that finally gets things right! Thanks for that insight. |