mapman
Responses from mapman
| How is your power bill? Rumor has it Obama actually likes tubes. They are hip, look cool as they glow and thereby are good for his image!I think there may be an "earmark" in that recent stimulus package to fund research for more energy efficient valves, though! | |
| An Advent Guy Cwlondon,I hear what you're saying. In terms of possible sound quality, I might agree in general but there have been improvements to many individual component designs I'm pretty sure. How significant are they? That's largely debateable.I do think ... | |
| An Advent Guy They are a classic.I know it ain't perfect but I'm loving the sound coming out of my early 80's vintage Dual 1264 table with almost as ancient Goldring MM cartridge in in my second system more than ever with the equally vintage Yamaha cr-420 recei... | |
| How is your power bill? At the risk of sounding "smug", Class D amps are the equivalent of hybrid or even electric cars in terms of energy consumption.Similarly spec'ed and much larger Class A amps are like Hummers! | |
| A/B Vinyl/Digital Hevac,Not familiar with the BErkeley.Agree DCS is very nice but way too expensive.I'm very happy with my $500 Paradisea DAC sourced from either Roku Soundbridge Network Player or modest Denon player, | |
| Maybe your turntable setup is actually okay . . . ECTS (Excessive Compulsive Turntable Syndrome).Its on the rise again now that vinyl is somewhat back in.The cure: lighten up or steer clear of vinyl!Go to digital or tape (8-track, cassette, reel to reel, others).Actually, tapes rip, jam etc. so y... | |
| Tandberg 3001 tuner service or parts Soundsmith. | |
| Linn LP-12 still competitive with the very best? "It is very satisfying for a large number of listeners."Would we even be having this discussion about a product that debuted so long ago if this were not the case?Longevity is one of the best indicators of utility..... | |
| DCS puccini+clock or spectral 4000 Mechans,I've found the mhdt Paradisea tube DAC, which uses a single tube in the output stage I believe, changes sound very dramatically with different tubes. I've heard this specifically using a NOS Tung Sol tube in place of the stock GE tube. The... | |
| A/B Vinyl/Digital "I know I can add tube to the output but after hearing the Berkeley DAC I feel that is the way to go. It just sounds that good."Its true that a lot of digital processing tricks can be played in the digital domain to make digital sound more analog.... | |
| How is it ? that a tuner smokes the table ??? There are a couple over the air classical stations out of NYC that sound very good broadcast over the internet for sure on a decent properly equipped stereo system. One is WNYC I think off the top of my head. | |
| DCS puccini+clock or spectral 4000 The Puccini is a sweet sounding unit but personally I would balk at the price. I don't think you need to spend that much for really good digital. | |
| start me off I like Linn over Rega.No experience with Sota.A Linn Axis like the one in my system might be had used in your range. | |
| Latest Earl Klugh album = Excellent SQ He is one artist whose CDs have always had distinctively good sound quality, regardless of system, to my ears.I'll have to check it out.... | |
| “Real” bass vs. “Boom” — how do you know which? " the room, as we all know, is the most expensive part of any audio system"Also not everybody has dedicated listening rooms that can be tweaked to the max so sometimes there are real limits with what can be done to the room in actual practice. |