ltmandella
Responses from ltmandella
| You're not a true audiophile unless... You obsess about soundstage :) | |
| Where Do I Go from Here? @sls883 How many hours per day, how many days per week, and how loudly do you listen? I had what I felt was severe tinnitus. Then I took a one month break from listening. Shocked the hell out of me: the tinnitus is now 90% gone. So, now I lis... | |
| Looking for a true upgrade in sound quality try an RPI 4 running Picore and LMS. If an RPI 4 is good enough for Bryston to use as a streamer (enclosed in a fancy case) it should be good enough... The biggest change in a system is always from a change in speakers... | |
| Need Advice Asap - Terrible experience with a seller on Reverb (Iso Acoustics Gaia ii) "I should have stayed away when the price was too good to be true." I immediately thought of my marriage when I read that... | |
| Looking for a component for ripping and playing CD's. Cocktail Audio HIFI Rose I own an early version of the Cocktail Audio ripper/player. Came with 1TB hard drive and a web app to operate it. Worked great for me. CD drive eventually wore out but it was easy enough to buy a new, generic drive, ... | |
| Warm, yet detailed tube preamp Transcendent Sound grounded grid or the newer 300B preamp | |
| VICTORFABIUS' Sales Here Are Scams All online purchases are a risk. The less robust and structured the sales platform is, the higher the risk. I doubt anyone considers this particular platform is the most structured and robust. | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? Speakers first, no question for me. Typical distortion levels for even the very best speakers are full percentages. For electronics, it is fractions of percentages. | |
| What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ? MFSL BEATLES BOX SET. | |
| Non-fatiguing speakers in $10K range? PROAC | |
| why expensive streamers I guess the digital transmission theory states that the bitstream from a high quality PC USB stream vs. an RPI4, both feeding the same DAC, would be identical, therefore sounding the same. Boy was I surprised how much better the RPI feed sounded.... | |
| Reel to Reel If you buy a fully rebuilt deck, calibrated and specs documented from an expert tech, you should be plug and play, just need tapes. But vintage prerecorded tapes often have the shedding problem due to age deterioration. Buying used decks from a... | |
| High sensitivity (99) with mid powered (50 to 100 wpc/tube) amps? tube amp hiss/hum has been a common complaint of tube afficiandos running super efficient speakers.. | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? A case could be made that it was when there were VERY affordable heathkits, hafler kits, and dynaco kits, to introduce people to the experience of HIFI. Of cvourse there has been great technical progress since those times, but much progress has b... | |
| Favorite moment with music in your car. In mid 80's finally decided to make the big move to leave Boston. Checked a U.S, map to see how far away it was possible to get from Boston. On the map it was clear, San Diego was the furthest away. Quit my job, bought a new car,and John Mellen... |