mambacfa
Responses from mambacfa
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @newton_john I've never had a person take "the vinyl test" and come away a digital fan. I take a vinyl and a CD of s piece of music, and start the test with a listen to the vinyl. Then comes the digital version. Every time, I watch with amusement ... | |
| Do I need upgraded power cables? I appreciate the advice to try taking a DIY approach to power cables. The task only requires stripping three wires, inserting them into the connectors and screwing down the wires. You can decide whether you want any fancy jacketing. The sense of c... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) Listening to vinyl is 100x the cost, labor, space and inconvenience of digital. And the consensus among the intelligentsia of the audiophile community is that the "vinyl zealots" are delusional people with more money than brains, who believe the p... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) Vinyl is a true analogue, not a digital approximation. "Vinyl sounds better than digital" is an indisputable fact, because it is true sound, not a computer-generated facsimile. | |
| I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume? Great question. I measure this from my listening position. In a normal size room (12x15) I listen at 75dB. I used to listen at 10dB louder but that was a single-family home; now I'm in an apartment. | |
| Why did you purchase the equipment you have and what do you like most about it? My move to tube equipment was revelatory, as was my move to single-driver, open baffle speakers paired with my REL sub. in headphones, my crazy RAAL "ear speakers" are the next best thing to room listening. On the surprising side, I am indifferen... | |
| … "And the government shall be upon his shoulders" It's an end times prophecy. | |
| Power cord Furutech DPS 4.1 cable at $100/meter? Where? At that price, I would back up the truck. I'm seeing $400/meter. (And worth every penny; I own three of these PCs.) | |
| Open baffle speakers Box speakers with multiple drivers create a slew of problems: cohesive sound across the drivers, degradation in sound quality from cheap connectors and crossovers, uncontrolled sound waves bouncing around inside the cabinet, and a waste of money o... | |
| Are REL the most Musical Subs? In a word: "YES" - the REL is the King of the Hill when it comes to integrating a sub into your audio system. I like the Speakon connection to my amp's speaker taps, and I've always found that the REL "sub bass" unit brought a wonderful balance ac... | |
| Refurbished / Re-tipped Cartridges - Are they worth Buying? If your cartridge costs $500 (like the legendary and wonderful Denon 103R) then you can afford to replace it once the stylus is worn. But if you have a really expensive cartridge ($5K) then it pays to have it re-tipped. I had Groovetickler retip m... | |
| Signal tube versus power tube, sound impact? Pleased to hear the opinion that power tubes matter more than signal tubes (only because that's what I have found to be true and I'm a confirmation whore.) Shirley you must know that this flies against common wisdom that pairs tube preamps with so... | |
| How does bi-wiring work? Bi-wiring "works" by paying for two pairs of speaker cables, connecting them to a pair of terminals that send the signals to the crossover network, which then sends the signals from BOTH pair of terminals to the same drivers. | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! Everything matters in delivering the audio signal the ears. Components matter, so do the power supplies in those components, and the quality of the capacitors and resistors, and the type and quality of attenuators, and the hookup wire used to conn... | |
| I'm going to buy my first tube amp. I need honest blunt opinions The updated Dynaco ST-70 is a wonderful amp and a total bargain at its price. This is a design that has sold over 350,000 amps of the the past several decades. Tube rectification, better power supply than the original, and improved tube choices fo... |