larryi
Responses from larryi
| Reliabilty, Keeping Equipment Powered on or off? From the standpoint of safety, longevity and energy savings, it makes sense to power down everything. This is particularly true of tube gear. I can understand not wanting to power down amps which can take a really long time to come back up to so... | |
| Beyond Ayre Pass and Rowland Inna,What do you mean by youtube auditioning? I hope you don't seriously mean that you have attempted to discern what stuff sounds like by the audio portion of a youtube posting. At best, youtube tells you something about what the gear looks lik... | |
| Viva, no longer a fan The type of protection of the US distributor and the local dealerships that Viva appears to be employing will, unfortunately, hurt some used buyers that unknowingly purchased a unit that has ended up in another country/sales region. But, absent s... | |
| My final table , hopefully ! emailist,The insect tweak is part of a comprehensive approach I take to just about all my endeavors--If I can get away with doing nothing, that is how I will handle it. That is why I also use "dust damping" for my turntable and other components--... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? I am in agreement with most of what Art Dudley says about vintage 1930-60's gear, generally speaking, but, the specific examples he mentioned in the excerpts quoted above, are not what I would be setting out as examples. The Quad? Yes, a terrific... | |
| My final table , hopefully ! Moonglum, Good to hear that your table is working so well for you. As I said, I never had problems with my HW19 and it is still going strong in someone else's hands. My mild concern with VPI is not with the number of models, but, rather, with ho... | |
| My final table , hopefully ! Many years ago I had a VPI HW16 (IV) with a Graham arm on it. That was a very good table that is completely trouble free (it is still at work in a friend's system. Before that, I had the older, non-golf ball version of the WTT (it had a plastic ... | |
| Would increasing the gain in the amp give more weight to the sound? Any negatives? Oops, I did not attach the URL, for some reason insert URL is not working:http://theartofsound.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-10335.html | |
| Would increasing the gain in the amp give more weight to the sound? Any negatives? I have not tried it myself, but, I know that some people increase the sense of body and weight by inserting a 1:1 "repeating" transformer into the line level signal (e.g., between the phonostage and linestage, between CD player and linestage, or b... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers I don't think it is quite as simple as a great digital system will sound even better with good phono gear added. I have problems with optimizing my system for one or the other. I had a setup that sounded quite good with both my CD player and my ... | |
| When will there be decent classical music recordings? I find that most classical recordings deliver more detail, particularly for higher frequencies, than I hear in actual concerts. Yes, someone on stage, like the OP has a different perspective, but, the records are meant to sound somewhat like what... | |
| mc cartridge loading Jonathan Carr, the designer of Lyra cartridges says much the same thing as Atmasphere--loading is only needed with some phonostage which overload when presented with RFI. I have found that with most high quality phonostages, not much more loading... | |
| Dac to remove Digital Glare/ edge A lot of CDs of pop and rock music sound terrible because the studios master them that way (deliberately or by indifference, I have no idea). This is evident when you hear the same music released by specialty houses that sound substantially bette... | |
| Any options for low power class A amps? There is a brand that specializes in low-powered, Class A amps, many designed for high impedance speakers and single driver systems utilizing Lowther or Fostex drivers. That brand is First Watt (an offshoot of Pass Laboratories).I heard on such a... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers Mapman, I don't know how easy the Triangle speaker is to drive, but, I do like how it sounds. It is a nice and lively speaker that has a somewhat "bright" top end that is not harsh or hard or sibilant--a VERY hard trick to pull off and something ... |