loomisjohnson
Responses from loomisjohnson
| HELP me bring my system into the 21st Century ergolad:you've stated that (a) you have around $2000 to spend on upgraded audio, and (b) you love your vandersteens. with those criteria, i think you'd be best served by keeping your vandersteens and getting a nice 2ch integrated amp (e.g. rotel, ... | |
| is a center channel really necessary?? Personally, I've become less and less interested in 5.1, which (esp. for music) inevitably sounds processed and unnatural to me. i still have a surround setup in my living room, but find i do almost all my movie watching/music listening on a secon... | |
| Upgrading from my Rotel RCD-1072 the rotel's well regarded as a transport--have you considered keeping it and adding an external dac? you're likely to get upgraded performance for less $$$$ | |
| Speakers for Onkyo A-9555 Integrated browsing thru the used listings, i saw some canton karat and focal jmlabs 905/906 in approximately your price range--i'd definitely consider both. | |
| paradigm s8 vs psb synchrony one i've auditioned both the psbs and the paradigms, though not side-by-side; they're actually very similar in presentation--lively-but-neutral, very well balanced throughout the spectrum, extremely detailed high end. my sense was the psbs had a bit m... | |
| PSB Synchrony One owners - placement question? when i auditioned the synchs, they sounded great about 3 feet from rear and side walls; when moved as close as a foot from the rear or side walls, the bass lost its composure. plugging the ports did stop the low end boominess, but also markedly re... | |
| A little help with my first system it appears that you're looking in the right direction--you seem well informed and are certainly considering high-quality components. among your candidates, i personally prefer rotel to nad, principally because of reliability issues; the step up fr... | |
| best AVR for dual use in HT/music? remo, if you're planning on staying with 2.1, i'd look at the hk 3490, which is a 2ch receiver with a sub out and digital input; you can connect your video components directly to your tv. harman is selling the 3490 on ebay for a mere pittance; sin... | |
| best AVR for dual use in HT/music? i've never heard much cost-effective difference between the chinese-made mass market avrs--they all sound approximately the same. i do think hk uses better, more robust amps, so it'd be my choice among the candidates you mentioned. however, if mus... | |
| NAD 12V trigger get a smart strip (less than $30) on amazon, which a power strip that automatically switches on/off components when you turn on/off the master device (in this case, your preamp) | |
| Fleetwood Mac then play on, with peter green, is one of the great lost albums of the 60s--it features the original "o well" and a bunch a really cool, strange stuff. i dig the kiln house/bare trees/future games stuff, too--danny kirwan was a hugely underrecogni... | |
| Alex Chilton RIP i'm (obviously) with martykl on this one--at the end of the day, it's all about the songs; the fact that zman's discarded bands took their inspiration from the prophet shouldn't ipso facto damn them to oblivion. virtually everyone is influenced by... | |
| I would like to hear the Revel F-52's try barrett's home theater in naperville--i saw a pair there | |
| Alex Chilton RIP zaikesman, you dare dis the posies? to me, the epitome of power popdom; unlike 98% of their peers, they weren't merely slavishly imitating their big star/beatles/hollies influences, but taking it somewhere different, with weird poetic lyrics, comp... | |
| Review: Kef Reference Model One Speaker jgiacolo, some dealer (with whom i am wholly unaffiliated) has a pair of the reference 4s listed on agon for $1200 (srp $5500)--these were the top model in the series. i'd be awfully tempted... |