markphd
Responses from markphd
| Passion or obsession As long as your family, and dog, are not lacking the necessities of life because you divert money away from groceries, rent, etc., then it all sounds pretty normal to me. You seem to fit the AudiogoN profile. | |
| please help with new purchase I agree with Newbee. The Rega P3 is a good table. It's a touch better than the bottom of the line entry level tables, but it's not outrageously expensive. Regas are also relatively easier tables to set up. So you can gently break yourself in to th... | |
| Led Zeppelin Classic Records 45 series -Am I nuts? Don't ask us if you're nuts because we're all nuts too!I'm not familiar with this set but I will certainly check it out being a big Zeppelin fan. I'll pass on the Barry Manilow for now.I would consider it a plus if it is not remastered. I've never... | |
| Dual Banana lPlugs I would not dare to make the assumption that spacing is consistent, especially if you are comparing speakers manufactured in different countries. And for that matter, even the barrel of the banana does not have a consistent diameter. Don't buy dua... | |
| My friends... blind followers of this Audio Guru In your post the most important thing you say is this:"My sytem is not top of the line, but aIm happy with it".Nothing more needs to be said. You are to be commended for having the self confidence to form your own opinion and not be unduly influen... | |
| What speakers use a "minimal" crossover? Don't forget "active" speakers, which separate high and low frequencies back at the amp. The speaker's crossover is bypassed entirely. | |
| My dog ate my homework, um, I mean speakerwire.... When I was in college, my speaker wire (and budget) were too short. I couldn't do anything about the budget. But what I did for the speaker wire was to take two short pieces of wire, strip them back and hand twist the braids together to make one l... | |
| Guitar player? , What model do you own or play? I'm not quite in the same category as you other guys.I have an old Yamaha acoustic from my college days that I learned to play on. A million other people probably have the same story. It's almost an antique now, just like me.A while back, I also t... | |
| The Isolator: the latest rip-off? Back in the 60's, people used to add mass to their tonearms by using scotch tape to attach a penny to the headshell. I saw many a Garrard, Dual and BSR table in college dorm rooms with this. Then in the 70's, Ivor Tiefenbrun of a new company calle... | |
| A CD that is Multichannel I think that Jeffreybehr and Eldartford are both correct. It is my uderstanding that Dolby Surround was one of the first implementations of multichannel. The front left and right stereo channels exist of course, and then the diffeerence between th... | |
| what is a high end component ? "The World of High Fidelity" is a book written by Gerard Rejskind, the editor of UHF Magazine. At the start of the book just before the Table of Contents, he writes the following acknowledgement:"To the countless musicians who have, day by day, st... | |
| what are your views regarding reviewing styles ? Well, here's my opinion FWIW. Let's take your post a paragraph at a time.In your first paragraph you state:"at the risk of being simplistic, i would say there are two broad categories of reviewing--criticism and reporting and the connotations of s... | |
| What to do with 1,200 CDs I don't need I get a sense from your post that you just want confirmation for what you think is the best idea, i.e. the tax deduction route. I think it's the best idea too. Simplest, easiest, and the one likely to give you the best return. It also gives the mu... | |
| Your listening chair I have a nearfield listening position almost identical to the one in the picture link you provided. I even have the same chair and footrest! It's an Ikea Poang chair, with matching footrest, by the way. Very cheap and very comfortable.I notice no ... | |
| what is the purpose of a stereo system ? "some of the disagreements as to component preferences or the sound of stereo systems may result from differing ideas as to what a stereo system should do."I think that there is a tremendous amount of truth in this statement. It's an interesting p... |