mapman
Responses from mapman
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? I think all the less than stellar doodling live recordings of the Dead available blurs the picture in regards to Garcia for many. He was a talented musician that could really deliver when focused and on, but there are too many recorded instances o... | |
| Best Place/Way To Sell My CD Collection? Why not sell it as auction right here on Agon? | |
| Scaling down TEchnically, my third "system" currently is my Squeezebox Radio. Can't scale down much smaller than that and the sound is very listenable. Works nicely with earphones as well. | |
| Scaling down " I think most people eventually realize they can truly enjoy listening to music on a wide range of equipment. Particularly if attention is paid to setup and speaker/room interactions."Uh oh, the cat's out of the bag..... | |
| Original prices for LP albums Hey, we used to go to the Nevele as a kid! I did not know the origin of the name. Nice trivia!A lot of my records came from Cheap Thrills in New Brunswick, NJ in college. $5.99 sounds like a familiar price but can't remember exactly (1978). | |
| Class A amps or Class D??: Which sounds better?? Atmasphere is right that Class D amp technology is likely still evolving along the technology maturity curve, certainly it is newer than other types relatively speaking. But it has been around a while and has reached a fairly mature state at this ... | |
| Would you trust a local dealer to help you put "Moreover, I take issue with individual component reviews vs. system reviews. Brand X preamp may we highly touted and reference caliber but only when placed within certain systems. "Yes, me too when the review does not address how the component un... | |
| Why does your turntable sound the way it does. Tubes versus transistors is a debate unique to high end audio. There are really no other home applications where the discussion is relevant anymore. That's my point. Audiophiles are quite special and unique in that regard apparently. REcords are a... | |
| bipoles/dipoles for music... With a well executed design, I suspect that there is less fatigue factor in general whenever all the sound is not being fired directly at your ears in the sweet spot. I think this generally lends itself to longer listening sessions, especially at ... | |
| Why does your turntable sound the way it does. History says the other approaches pretty much replaced idlers becasue they were better.Where other than high end audio do old technologies that were supposedly replaced by newer superior ones gain favor once more?Antique collecting which I love is... | |
| Don't read you'll be sorry I'm starting to feel a little sorry. | |
| Tube Dac to Tube pre? Let's see old tubes sound better than new ones and old records sound better than newer digital recordings.Are there any old technology known to man that are deemed superior to modern technology outside of the high end audio world? Or are we audio ... | |
| Where's the trade off? I think I hear differences with warmup but its always hard to determine these cause/effect type things conclusively.I think I hear warmup having a bigger effect with my SS gear (which is less problematic to keep on during idle time as well luckily... | |
| Who uses high end TT setup for vintage records ? SAlectric.That's an interesting theory.I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the hifi industry was still new and a novelty back then and leading studios invested to be on the cutting edge. There was a greater attention to technical deta... | |
| Would you trust a local dealer to help you put That SBS scenario was apparent to me as a result of just a single conversation with Andy there. I guess that's part of the reason SBS is no longer there physically at least. |