loomisjohnson
Responses from loomisjohnson
| Adcom vs Carver adcom's a safe bet. the carver unit got some very good reviews, although i personally avoid carver equipment manufactured after 1994, when bob carver left the comapny--there seems to have been a decline in build quality. | |
| Best Used under $300 2 Channel Amp amc makes a perfectly serviceable, bridgeable 2 channel ss amp which is generally available for $200 or so on ebay. i also see a bunch of used b&k st140 in that range. i'd also look at marantz ma monoblocks, which you should also find used wit... | |
| Byrds - untitled Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab gotta disagree with jaybo--the bad byrd albums, like byrdmaniax and farther along--are really, really bad. untiltled is worthwhile for the live disc (i actaully like the 8mh jam), but gene clark was the real motherfucker. | |
| Surround Receiver For Zu Druid ? b&k is always a great choice--best avr for two channel that i've heard. fewer bells and whistles than the mass market asian stuff, but much better built. the 307 and 507 units are generally available used for $500-$1000.i'd also consider arcam... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? great album, jaybo--havent heard it in 20 years--sign on the cross is classic | |
| Recommend speakers for a restaurant sound system If it were my business, I'd subscribe to XM radio service, which has fantastic variety and is available very inexpensively. ASCAP/RIAA are actually quite aggressive about collecting royalties for unauthorized commercial use of copyrighted music (I... | |
| NAD Reliability Anecdotally, and from my own experiences, NAD's digital players are quite unreliable--I believe I've owned three seperate NAD players and each one had problems (laser, drawer mechanism). Their integrated amps, on the other hand, have been trouble-... | |
| Receiver Equivalent of Sansui AU Integrateds i'd get a kyocera--best built units of the 80s era. | |
| choosing a center channel have you considered either a midrange psb (e.g imagine line) or kef xq (great deals on their products at accessories4less)--both make excellent centers-- very transparent without being sterile or over-analytical. for ht use, i wouldn't overspend j... | |
| Vienna Acoustic Hayden grand or Polk audio lsi9 i've auditioned both--i think tweeter used to carry both lines, and honestly wasn't blown away by either, the vienna are way too polite while the polk were basically uninvolving without much low end (i thought the smaller lsi-7 imaged better and w... | |
| Recommend speakers for a restaurant sound system I'd go with mirage omnis, which can be used as wall or ceiling mounts--they are very detailed despite dispersing over a very wide area and sound quite full range for a small, non-descript enclosure. to power them you could get a multizone receiver... | |
| How do you use a sub with active speakers do it the way you suggest--since you don't have speaker level ouputs on the preamps, you have to use the preamp rca outs to the low level input on your rel. | |
| best hybrid integrated amp 100wpc or more i heard a vincent hybrid that was really outstanding and reasonably priced--less that $1k. | |
| "Peaking" on a Marantz SR8001 try removing the red/white analog cables and using a digital cable from the cdp to the receiver (either coax or optical) and see what happens. | |
| Totem Arro in larger room?? why not get the totem hawks--very good fullrange floorstander easily available used for $1500 or so. you won't need stands or a sub--they'll go quite low. |