mesch
Responses from mesch
| Biggest impact: moving from integrated to separates I now understand. Replacing a $2000 integrated with ~$8500 of separate phonostage, line level pre, and amplifier is another proposition. | |
| Biggest impact: moving from integrated to separates I agree that at a $3000 budget it would be difficult to do better than the Cronus via separates or another integrated. Different sure, but better? | |
| Cars R OK, but what kind of motorcycle do you have I currently own a Yamaha Road Star 1600. About 75K miles and running perfectly. Bought new in 2000. Put about 50K on it the 1st 4 years, lots of cross country travel then. Previous bikes:Honda 50 sport - 1966-67Yamaha 180 street - 1967-1969Yamaha ... | |
| Amp recommendation and setup advice please You should be able to run video from satellite box to the TV via HDMI, and audio from the satellite box to the DAC via coax, then DAC to the powered speakers. Is this the way you are set up? You have volume control on the DAC and the speakers. Try... | |
| Vintage Onkyo gear vs Adcom I hit post too fast. What would your budget be if you sold preamp? | |
| Vintage Onkyo gear vs Adcom I believe I woulf sell the preamp and purchase a used integrated of more recent vintage? | |
| Use pink noise disc to warm up stereo Just turning a system on does't exite speaker drivers. Seems to me that they also need to reach thermal equilibrium to best operate. | |
| Which audio component would you like Santa to place under the christmas tree for you? 2psyop, I would be happy with the Bluesound Vault 2 we have been discussing. Remain looking into one of these. | |
| Need recommendation for CD transport (not Cambridge) Bel Canto makes a transport. $1500 retail I believe. I have not heard it, however. | |
| Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps Just want to thank those who recommended Eva Cassidy. Just wonderful voice. So sad she is isn't with us today. | |
| Best DAC for my situation...Read on! Thanks again uberwaltz! I may contact you after further exploration and have formulated specific questions. | |
| Best DAC for my situation...Read on! Thanks uberwaltz! | |
| Best DAC for my situation...Read on! Uberwaltz, I am considering the purchase of a Vault 2. I would hope to copy my AIFF files on to the internal hard drive and rip additional CDs as purchased. Have you had any issues ripping CDs with the Vaultt? Thanks. | |
| Adcom? I once owned a Audible Illusions Modulus 3A. Very good preamp. I wasn't using it for it's phonostage, which I believed to be a waste of a fine stage so I sold it. Went line level. | |
| What is your favorite budget audio component? Buying used makes for many a budget audio component.The original Audio Alchemy 'DAC in a BOX' I bought used on Ebay for $50. I pair it with a Schiit Vahalla headphone amp. Of course I use a M2Tech Hiface USB/SPDIF converter when using computer. |