kthomas
Responses from kthomas
| CD sound quality Bonvoyage - I think Rrcpa gave you the right steps to try next. Try changing the path to see if you can isolate which part of the path is causing the problem. The way you're describing the problem doesn't sound like a typical compatability, or eve... | |
| Processor Recs I own an MC-12 and would highly recommend finding a used v2.0 for around $3K, maybe less. It is well built, does HT surround with the best, has one of the few really good synthesized multi-channel music processing, has both 2-channel and 6-channel... | |
| Will adding an amp make a noticable difference? I don't know a lot about your specific equipment, so take this with a grain of salt. I'm assuming the HK has pre-outs, such that you can use an external amp? Assuming you can, I would guess that you'd hear a very noticeable improvement by buying u... | |
| What format are most people using, and why? I use WMA lossless. My only use is home playback at this point - I don't have much use for portable playback. Lossless is a key factor, and as others have said, WAV doesn't do the tagging info. I don't spend much time on comparing encoding schemes... | |
| B&W, Dynaudio, Dali or what else? I can't offer up comparisons, but I can report being a very satisfied Dynaudio C2 owner. My room is 14x19x8 and I like listening to rock, jazz and blues predominantly, with all genres except country in the mix. If large speakers were easier to mov... | |
| Taking audio too seriously? I know a lot of people use hobbies to different purposes, but my quest has always been to keep my hobbies pure enjoyment, no stress. When I golf, I have a good time - I may shoot well, I may shoot poorly. If I feel like going to the range, I do it... | |
| Buying decision time, or Time for a sanity check? I'm driven by upgrades that offer easy-to-recognize improvements - if I try something that might be different or might be better, I pass or re-sell, but if it is just clearly better sounding to me, I want to acquire. I tend to get serious when it'... | |
| Are there any GOOD Dylan SACD remasters? I have nothing to compare them to, and really never paid much attention to him - his peak was somewhat before my music-loving youth. But I really enjoy the SACD versions, especially getting them for six bucks from BMG, and marvel at what an incred... | |
| what is the proper protocol Never experienced that on either side of the transaction (knock wood!!). The first criteria would be that I'd want acknowledgement from the shipper that they considered the parcel lost. Then I'd expect that there would be a record of communication... | |
| MBL 101e's vs. Soundlab U-1's David - it's always interesting to come across a line of thinking and taste that mirrors one's own so directly. I have owned several Dyn's, currently owning the C2's - I've always loved the Dyns, listening to a wide variety of music, and also for ... | |
| Hales Transcendence 8 Speakers You've already gotten all the advice I could provide - great speakers, need beefy amps, were in the neighborhood of $10K US back when that was sort of the high end of sanity. I believe Audio magazine ran a review of them back before it went defunc... | |
| Decisions decisons, speakers or an amplifier I don't know much about the Parasound. My personal approach would be to upgrade the speakers to something that will benefit from every upstream upgrade for a while, and I think the 3.6's would do that. My guess is that the Parasound isn't sufficie... | |
| What am I missing? It must just be me, then - maybe it's the fact that it's 3 separate boxes, with the third one (the control center) seemingly only necessary due to having the two preamps as separate boxes.The review uses a CDP (a MF) with the dual output stage as ... | |
| I'm Looking For the Best In an attempt to give a scientific answer, I fed the last 10 years of reviews from S'phile and TAS into a computer, which in turn analyzed all of the various findings, commentary, measurements and comparisons to determine THE VERY BEST. Unfortunat... | |
| If you have a "kick booty" DAC, does the transport Is the complexity due to the nature of how Transports, output stages and cabling is currently implemented for the purposes of digital audio? The notion of bits-are-bits comes, for me, from the notion that in any other application of computers, I t... |