motown-l
Responses from motown-l
| What is better, analog or digital? Oh boy, once again the mantra of this topic should be: "it depends". | |
| What is an audiophile? Are you an audiophile? My joy is finding the least expensive equipment that reproduces music to my satisfaction. I guess that makes me a cheap-ass audiophile. | |
| Favorite obsolete formats..... I live in an area where there are still some excellent broadcast quality FM stations. Listening to music on some of these stations through a quality anaolg tuner is an amazing experience. | |
| 6.5 vs 8 vs 10 woofer Like just about any audio equipment assessment, the answer to what makes a perfect woofer diameter is: "it depends". | |
| Speakers The single most critical component The most important component of speakers? Your taste and preference. | |
| I have been on the hunt for the best turntable I can buy. Any suggestions? I recently bought a Philips AF877 for $75. I added some decent gold plated female RCA's and a ground lug. Lubed the main bearing, replaced the awful cuing mechanism with a beautiful Chinese made cuing arm and voila! Resonance free resin plinth, su... | |
| Surge protectors and power conditioners - Good idea or bad? I live in an older, poorly grounded home in old suburb with an overloaded grid. I have most of my equipment hooked to power conditioners, except my amp. I based this decision on advice from electronic "experts" that certainly know more than I do. ... | |
| Most harsh/shrill sounding speakers (vintage) Bowers & Wilkins 685's being pushed through a Rotel integrated. Ouch | |
| Finally found a space for the speakers I’ve been storing... and I don’t love them any more I had a pair of Paradigm Titan Monitor v.6 (the last of the line, built in Canada). I had them paired with 1990's Rotel separates and they were a bit too intense. When I upgraded to an Arcam integrated they smoothed out and sounded like different ... | |
| Is It Time To Sell My Vinyl Rig? Choose between health and any material do-hickey? What's to decide? | |
| VINYL SUCKS! Despite all of vinyl's drawbacks, I like the connection to my favorite audio period of the late 70's. I used to sell the stuff, covet the stuff, play the stuff, collect the stuff. Still do all the above, but not for my livelihood. Does it sound be... | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? My okay Denon streamer was no longer supported by the company. It then became a FM tuner with wired iPhone/iPad capability. That being said, as long as I am using my iPhone via the firewire connection to the streamer, even a compressed 320 kbps st... | |
| Why so many angry audiophiles? I have a relatively (for this forum) inexpensive system. Sometimes I get angry because its not a reference system and I see its warts. Sometimes I am fully content because the music its playing is wonderous. When I am in the anger mode, I try to r... | |
| For auld lang syne, ..high-end companies you really liked that are gone.... Companies still in business, but no longer in home audio (in the USA):Hitachi, Philips,Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, Braun, Mitsubishi, | |
| Inexpensive MM Cartridge I have owned quite a few entry level vintage TT's. I find that the old AT cartridge format works well with the heavier S shaped tonearms. I had an older 440 OCC body with a newer ML stylus mounted on a similar Technics TT (to the Pioneer 512). I t... |