kjweisner
Responses from kjweisner
| Best remote with preamp Anything by BAT--heavy remote, positive tactile feedback, nice big readout on the pre-amps (which can be shut off), mute, fade (up and down). Button size is smallish, but there are not many on the remote so you don't need to "look" once you know w... | |
| Jazz Piano Trio / Spanish Guitar Hey, one bit of advice--older recordings and sonic beauty are not mutually exclusive. In fact, it's often quite the opposite. Recordings made the old fashioned way (no overdubs, no compression/limiting, no complex ADC conversions, no processing, n... | |
| PowerBook G4 + Apple Express + iTunes +? to analog I'll offer my own experience as a point of view although I do NOT have a Mac serving the music (PC). I have beeen streaming Apple Lossless wirelessly to three (3) AEs (one at each stereo), which in turn are feeding the DACs via Optical digital.My ... | |
| newbie with basic question, please You're in great shape to get started! If you want to expand (or free up your Macbook) from being wired to the DAC, you can use an Aiport Express as Ericjcabrera has suggested. I have been using iTunes to stream lossless datastreams to several AEs ... | |
| Directv music channel versus AM/FM Tuner ? I have done this, but am very dissatisfied with quality of datastream and what it does to the music. Heavily compressed and flat, but I will occasionally listen for background music if I'm in the mood for a 70s revival, some old school R&B, so... | |
| Subwoofer Advice For Stereo Music System, Not HT I line up behind Samhar on the Vandy 2Wq. Have been using mine with Magneplanar 1.6QRs in a two channel only system for the last nine years and am completely happy with every aspect of it's performance. Make sure you understand what you're getting... | |
| Old receiver, need more inputs Ditto what Onemug says. . .we've all been there! More than once I have spent hours diagnosing an issue with systems and it has turned out to be something like an unplugged cable. I think it's human nature to overlook the obvious and "overthink" th... | |
| Old receiver, need more inputs You are in luck! As Palmerston, Curtis and Kal have noted , you can use the Tape Monitor, and the 2285b actually has two (2) sets (Tape 1 and 2). So you'll use the selector knob to choose AM, FM, Phono (1 & 2) or AUX, and then you would use th... | |
| what do I do about 40 foot rear cable lengths? Frank, that really shouldn't be a problem, especially for surround speakers. While the ideal is to limit cable length, you'd really only ever notice in an extremely resolving sitution (IOW main speakers in a really high-end rig). Most surround inf... | |
| whats a good older hdcd cd player? You could also consider a DAC with HDCD. I have an Assemblage 2.0 that I love--it's ancient (relatively speaking) but works fantastic, is built like a brick and you can mate it up with any player that outputs digital on toslink or SP/DIF on RCA an... | |
| VPI Scout Vibration Conquered with Home Brew Tweak Thanks for taking the time to provide all the detail in your post. . . I now have a new, low-cost project to try when I'm cooped up this this winter (in Minneapolis). Again, thanks for sharing! | |
| Is unity gain a real HT bypass? I would guess that Unity Gain is techically different than Bypass. IMHO, bypass would suggest a direct, alternate path from input to output, whereas Unity Gain is the normal path with zero attenuation/amplification of the source signal. This arran... | |
| Comparison of B&W's 685s and CDM or 805 Nautilus? That's a good and tough question since "better" is clearly a subjective measure. But given some fundamentals, I think it's fair to say that older Nautilus and CDM series would quite easily outperform current 600 series in overall performance. This... | |
| why do companies charge double for xlr cables? I think it's for one of two reasons. . .First, the balanced configuration may actually warrant the added expense because an additional run of the signal wiring is needed. Some cables like the Kimber silver streak I believe, are configured single e... | |
| Any suggestions? Take about a month or two to just observe. It's a great community but not utopian, and a bit of knowledge will go a long way. Keep an eye out for listings of equipment with which you are familiar--either that you own and are thinking of selling or... |