larryi
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| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Sunandmusic,I got to participate in a blind shootout between a 3.1, 4.1 and a 5 Special. I have also heard the DAC-5 Signature in a friend's system. These are all very musical sounding devices. In the shootout, I thought the 4.1 was really the... | |
| Wavac LCR-X2...is it worth $10k ? Pani,I like tube gear myself. The better examples, to me, are very dynamic and fast sounding, and are particularly good at getting subtle differences in dynamic changes; they don't "fake" dynamics or speed by having an artificially hard "edge" to... | |
| New Reel to Reel machines! I have seen those pictures before and one thing bothers me. If you look at an enlargement of those photos, the controls for the machine suggest that it is a playback-only machine (no record button, no controls for input or output volume, etc). W... | |
| Sonus Faber Guarneri - will any aiddtional isolation be beneficial? Chayro,I completely agree. As with any sort of "tuning" whether the result is positive or negative is dependent on a whole lot of factors that make it impossible to predict the outcome. That is why I recommended some kind of cheap and rough expe... | |
| Sonus Faber Guarneri - will any aiddtional isolation be beneficial? Hi Folkfreak,Thanks for your response.I have a pair of SAP J2001 speakers, although I have switched out its midrange horn in favor of very old Western Electric 731 b driver and a Western Electric KS 12025 horn. The bass cabinet should barely fit ... | |
| Sonus Faber Guarneri - will any aiddtional isolation be beneficial? Hi Folkfreak,I am looking at upping my isolation game by using something like the Townsend Podium or Corners in place of the Svelte Shelf I currently use. I would need the largest Podium (24" wide), and even that would not have the full depth of ... | |
| Sonus Faber Guarneri - will any aiddtional isolation be beneficial? I cannot say specifically about the SF Guarneri, but, with a lot of speakers, the use of an energy absorbing (vibration dissipated as friction/heat) platform does make a big difference. Whether or not that difference is a positive, depends on the... | |
| ... how important is Damping factor in determining what amp to buy If I knew absolutely nothing else about two amps, except that one has a damping factor of say 4 and the other had a damping factor of 1,000, I would take the amp rated 4 (it would most likely be a tube amp, and perhaps a single-ended triode with o... | |
| Good HiFi stores in NY, Washington DC area Deja Vu is quite a different kind of store--a lot of old gear, but mostly "new" gear that they make in-house or through exclusive associations with builders in Europe that build new stuff from old parts. Some of the speaker systems based on Weste... | |
| I have an uber awesome amp, why buy a speaker with a built in woofer sub-woofer amp It makes some sense to provide a powered woofer for certain kinds of systems. If the midrange/tweeter assembly is quite efficient, but, the designer cannot find a suitable woofer of equivalent or higher efficiency, a conventional design would mea... | |
| Good HiFi stores in NY, Washington DC area OP,You are hoping to buy these brands used from stores? | |
| Greg Brown - The Poet Game Yes, this is a terrific recording. The lyrics, in particular are amazingly thoughtful. I particularly like the title track (about the seeming power of words, but, ultimate impotence of words), and Brand New '64 Dodge (about the loss of innocence... | |
| Linear Tracking Turntables - Best?? The air bearing "slop" issue has to do with not having physical contact between the arm and the structure of the rest of the table (arm base and plinth). Micro vibrations caused by the stylus tracing the groove don't have as effective a path to b... | |
| Linn CD12 MK3 I don't know if it has to do with the choice of chip, or something else, but, I like the sound of the CD12 and also the sound of the Naim 555 cd player that I own. This too uses the 1704 chipset. There are a number of high-end DAC makers that h... | |
| Linear Tracking Turntables - Best?? The much higher effective mass in the horizontal plane of most linear tracking arms might not necessarily be a disadvantage. Bass is typically mastered monophonically, which means only lateral movement of the stylus tracing the groove. The highe... |