mijknarf
Responses from mijknarf
| Totem Forest, Mani 2's or Green Mtn Audio Europa I bought a brand new pair of cherry Forests last year. I powered them with a Pass Labs x250 amp. My livingroom is roughly 14x22 with 8 foot ceilings. I loved the sound. Just on a whim, after reading the acolades about the Europas, I found a dealer... | |
| Best speaker for $1500???, Have Cary SLI-80 You need to consider Europas, for $600 used it's hard to go wrong. They outperformed Totem Forests (a very nice speaker) in my system during an A/B test. An in home trial is they only way to surely know. | |
| $800-$1500 Integrated amps with a subwoofer output I believe the Manley Stingray integrated can be ordered with a sub out. It's a nice amp and can be found used at your price range. | |
| Jazz station recommendations, please. Easy, kplu.org great jazz all day every day. They're out of WA state. | |
| Do power cables make good speaker cables? Andy, I crimped WBT gold sleeves onto the starquad and slid it into the spade. The spade has two set screws that bite the wire or sleeve. I then used heat shrink to cover the assembly. | |
| Do power cables make good speaker cables? Nickolas, I use VH Audio's star-quad wire for my speaker cables, it's the same wire used in his Flavor 4 PC. Last year I was trialing many different SCs and decided to try some of Chris's star-quad wire. After a couple of months of A/B comparisons... | |
| Jazz Piano? Try going to www.accuradio.com, click on the "Jazz" tab, then choose "Piano Jazz". It's a great way to hear streaming jazz and decide on an artist/s that you may like. They have direct links to Amazon to purchase the CD. While there you can also c... | |
| Besides Audio, what other ''passion'' do you have? Seth,I'll send you some pics of my most recent stuff. Like you, I built almost all the furniture in our house. I'm finding it more and more difficult to spend time in my shop when my system is calling me for a listening session! | |
| Besides Audio, what other ''passion'' do you have? Custom hardwood furniture building. I have a dedicated shop in the basement. I build everything from shaker to mission styles, from kitchens to bedrooms. I'm pretty much only building for me right now, I get in one or two projects a year. I just s... | |
| Moving from SS to tube system A few words regarding the AES Sixpacs... it is true that the EL34 tubes promote the mids, however, I have to believe there is some system/room dependency that accentuate the frequency extreems, not to mention personal taste (this is why home audit... | |
| GMA Europa discontinued? My local GMA dealer in Ohio believed so much in Roy and his products that he left his business and moved to Colorado to work for Roy. I know this guy is very high on what will be comming out of GMA in the future. I believe we are seeing the change... | |
| I'm frustrated with people who don't ... I've concluded with many of your responses, there was nothing I could say to convince anyone, just move on. When I get a chance I'll get some of the guys over and let them hear for themselves. You guys are right, at the end of the day, it's about ... | |
| 5 CD's on your current "permanent " rotation. 1. The Ruby Braff & George Barnes - Live at the New School2. Jane Monheit - In the Sun3. Sounds of Wood and Steel 2 - A Windham Hill Collection4. Suite for Flute & Jazz Piano Trio - Claude Bolling & Jean Pierre Rampal5. Dave Matthews &... | |
| How Much Time do You Surf on Audiogon? I'm on here about an hour a day. Interesting to me is that I have reduced reading the paper, working in my woodshop and other activities to make time to be here. Last winter was the first winter I didn't build any furniture in my shop because I sp... | |
| Is it that time of the month? I'm under Muzikat's #6. In the past year I've been through three sets of speakers, three amps and two CDPs all because I wanted to try different stuff. Probably some of #3 as well. Good post Driver. |