mapman
Responses from mapman
| What system would a robot with ears buy? Depends on who made his sensors. | |
| Restored Vintage SS Amps for Sale? https://www.just-audio.com | |
| Returning to audiophilism after 20 years: a little guidance would be nice :-) Integrated amp technology has come a long way in recent years. I think you will be pleasantly surprised. | |
| Lack of popularity of Chord??? Lots of Chord gear and users out there. Pretty universally acclaimed. Users must just be happy and listening. There is an open position for a Chord shill here though if someone wants to fill that role and get people here talking about the products... | |
| Returning to audiophilism after 20 years: a little guidance would be nice :-) It’s all good these days. Read up and take your pick. | |
| Music Lovers Speaker vs. Audiophile Speaker It’s just semantics. | |
| VAC preamps - too expensive? Well I do agree the fewer tubes the better.I’ve had the sp16 for a number of years. It’s been pretty easy overall on the tubes but with any tube gear you have to be ready when a tube starts to go. 3 tubes in pre-amp and 3 in phono stage. There is... | |
| VAC preamps - too expensive? Audio Research is a common option. I use an Audio Research tube pre-amp with phono. Only 6 tubes I run these days. Cost under $2k new during a sale a few years back to make way for newer model.I’ve had a handful of VAC auditions. Won’t say the two... | |
| Distributed Bass Array configuration @atmasphere +1. Never met Duke but that rings true from what I have seen over the years here. I have learned a lot from him here over the years. You too! | |
| VAC preamps - too expensive? Do I win a prize for hitting that? I’m looking for a world class integrated amp. A VAC would do just fine. It’s not easy to be around for many years and post regularly without getting banned or just plain burned out at some point prior. I did take... | |
| Why is science just a starting point and not an end point? Science and its application in Engineering provides people many good quality choices for their hifis. Even a way to sort through the complexity and figure out what is most likely to work best. But its always up to you which fruits of science and e... | |
| VAC preamps - too expensive? VAC is very good stuff and has that reputation, so you will pay for that. | |
| Are the new Ohm Walsh speakers Audiophile quality? BS free is particularly a nice thing these days. Can't put a price tag on that. | |
| VAC preamps - too expensive? Not if you like VAC pre-amps. | |
| Vibration control on power versus signal I’d worry about EM fields inducing noise and distortion in nearby devices and guarding against that but vibrations, no. |