mwilson
Responses from mwilson
| Signal Cable or Audio Art Cable for best budget... Signal Cable Analog 1 and 2 are just dressed-up Belden cable. I don't know which raw cables are used though. | |
| 'warm' cables? Cardas always seems to come up as a recommendation for "warm". I tried some quadlink 5cs in my system and they were warm like a pair of earmuffs, with about as much detail. | |
| Small form factor, budget DACs? About the older CI DAC, I was well impressed with it for such a simple unit. It had reasonably good bass - not boomy, but not really in charge. It had surprising detail and presence, but it was a little bodiless through the midsection, and in comp... | |
| Small form factor, budget DACs? I highly recommend the Bel Canto DAC 1.1, at around $550 used. I owned the earlier CI DAC (your price seems to indicate the new one), and while it was pretty good, I found the Bel Canto clearly superior in all respects.Other small form-factor DACs... | |
| Toughest hombre west of the Pecos? I agree with Onhwy61 - Lee Marvin is the man. If he is in the mood for tubes, he heats up jeep windshields with a flamethrower, rolls them into bulbs, then sucks all the air out of them, and sticks his dogtags inside for getters. If he wants some ... | |
| Sonic Frontiers Ultra Jitterbug Processor This device is a digital reclocker designed to reduce "jitter", which is a digital timing error, and a topic I don't know enough about to expound technically to anyone's benefit. It's an easy enough search to find more info (just search the forum ... | |
| Best sounding,reliable, tube amp below $700 used Someone just listed an Aes/Cary Ae-25 Superamp that would be very hard to go wrong with. Apart from that, Quicksilver Mini Mites (monoblocks) also come to mind. Good luck! | |
| Mesa Boogie Tube amps interested in your thoughts Bojack - you've got the right company actually. Mesa at one point did however produce a couple audiophile home-audio amps - the "Mesa Baron" tube power amplifier, and the "Mesa Tigris" tube integrated amplifier are the only two I know of. I think ... | |
| Best DVD Player for Under $500 I briefly owned an Azur 540D, and it had very serious audio sync problems. It also would spin the DVD constantly when not playing. Since I leave a player on with media loaded, this was not something I thought would lead to long transport life. I w... | |
| jolida issues? first tube amp I (very briefly) owned a Jolida 102b and it was also a piece of junk. Very poor manufacturing - a whole laundry-list of issues, both cosmetic and functional. The worst was the controls - the volume/balance pots made tons of noise, and the unit was... | |
| Clever Lil Clock - What's up with this? Better get a roof.... | |
| Horns for Rock. You could also look for some of the pro model La Scalas. Bigger bass driver than stock. They come in a couple varieties (split or full cabinet) and they aren't very common, but can be found. There's also a pro model Heresy - I don't know how or if... | |
| DVD -R or DVD +R +R's seem to be much more reliable and problem-free in my personal experience and in the experience of half a dozen or so of my professional IT colleagues. Deep in the gory details (see Lkdog's links), the +R's have some technical superiority over... | |
| Nero: Normalize audio tracks ? What would one do if they had a collection of .wav files ripped from various CDs, and those tracks were of greatly different overall volumes, and one wanted to achieve a coherent volume balance for the whole set of them - to make a mix tape (CD) f... | |
| What's the deal with the Machina Dynamica Clock? The "it's a free market" explanation does nothing to address the morality of selling a bogus product. |