millercarbon
Responses from millercarbon
| Cartridge forgiving of "non-audiophile" recordings and pressings I've yet to find the rig that made great records sound better that didn't also make crap records sound better. No idea what you're listening to or for that's giving you problems, just letting you know if that's your goal there's a better way than ... | |
| Does Power Cord Require Burn-In To Sound Good? "Invoking"? Face it bub, you didn’t invoke, you used. It seems your last few posts show a distinct lack of listener skills and audio experience, while your writing skills are poor even when it comes to throwing insults, which seems to be your main... | |
| Is the Manley Steelhead still relevant? This is not a phono stage, but it is what one looking for the very best would do well to consider: Soundsmith SG1. With the best available power supply this is said to be at least as good as phono stage/cart combinations where each part, cart and ... | |
| Plus and Minus When I first started looking for real high end components it was back in the early 90's and I did like a lot of guys still do and brought my little collection of "reference" CDs with me. Had my little list of sonic attributes to listen for and che... | |
| “Classic” phono stages 2007-20013? Relax chief, we have twenty thousand years to figure that one out! | |
| Plus and Minus Recreating live music is a fantasy. What we do instead is, everything has its own sound character. Its not necessary to match exactly the live sound to create the impression of the actual instruments. The system is merely the last link in the whol... | |
| As Advised, Starting With Speakers First. Moabs most certainly are not ’more reserved, romantic’ but neither are they aggressive or analytical. Just crazy good. | |
| As Advised, Starting With Speakers First. Hawthorne has a nice selection of turntables. But you want a DAC. Oh well. Hawthorne is right across the street (Roosevelt) from Definitive. Ideally you would do Hawthorne, walk across the street to Definitive, listen to their million dollar (or w... | |
| Retubing dilemma Just recommending JJ. Which one you decide to spring for is up to you. I've long since lost track of which tubes of which make sounded like what. The way my audio mind works I can hear every tiny little difference but only remember what stands out... | |
| Advice Regarding Reel-to-Reel I would be all over it. Here's why. There is nothing like RTR. Nothing. Get one and you will not be selling, not after listening to it for a while. Especially not if you buy some of the growing list of high quality open reel master copies that are... | |
| Retubing dilemma jkontuly, you need to start reading my posts. I’ve got a Melody and have warned many times about my Preferred Series tubes going up in flames. Three in two months, failed spectacularly. Worst of all the tubes tried in my 30 years running tube amps... | |
| Are all of these NOS tube inventories real? How have we not consumed them already? NOS is New Old Stock. NOS is NIB, just older. Just what exactly constitutes "old" is I believe open to interpretation. | |
| Death Of A Tube Amp (A Short Story) Pretty good. There's just one chink in it however.... | |
| Vinyl Fremer this year vinyl sales have outpaced CD sales in the US for the first time since the 1980s.Vinyl sales growth rate has outpaced CD since the 90's. Now total sales are greater too. Bound to happen. What has contributed to the industry’s resilienc... | |
| A question that defines the problem of shopping... I haven't auditioned a single piece of gear in the last 15 years, at least. I do pretty good just reading reviews. https://systems.audiogon.com/systems/8367 Its now at the point where almost everything in my system was bought sight unheard. Only t... |