nyev
Responses from nyev
| My Lifelong Quest to Make my Expensive Rig Sound as Good as $500 Headphones @anotherbob, it's just crazy how frequently Sony updates these relatively inexpensive headphones with new models. And with each iteration I hear they keep getting better! I find them more pleasing to listen to than a lot of much higher-end headph... | |
| My Lifelong Quest to Make my Expensive Rig Sound as Good as $500 Headphones @ghdprentice I checked out the Threshold S500, I see it was designed by Nelson Pass! Looks like a serious amp with Class A goodness. You sure jumped into things in a much bigger way than me! At that age I didn’t even know how to get a loan, which ... | |
| My Lifelong Quest to Make my Expensive Rig Sound as Good as $500 Headphones Also - for so many years, I struggled with stridency and harshness in lower end mid-if gear. And it seemed my only alternative was moving to overly warm and sluggish gear. Thankfully I now have a slightly warm leaning and meaty tonality that I ado... | |
| My Lifelong Quest to Make my Expensive Rig Sound as Good as $500 Headphones Great comments all. @cd318 , that is precisely what I am talking about. Maybe “detail” is the wrong word. But that professor’s description of how a $100 set of headphones had better impulse control is exactly what I am referring to. My system is v... | |
| Herbie’s Spike Decoupling Gliders: my…experience thanks @sid-hoff-frenchman, got it. I ordered a pile of tenderfeet. For my Gryphon amp, I found there is no ideal location to put the tenderfeet without removing the stock feet. So I ended up ordering a Butcher’s Block Acoustics maple slab (gloss ... | |
| Herbie’s Spike Decoupling Gliders: my…experience @sid-hoff-frenchman , thanks for sharing your experiences. For Herbie’s Tenderfeet, I wonder if they would be better or worse than Herbie’s threaded sliders. Any reason why you picked one over the other? | |
| Herbie’s Spike Decoupling Gliders: my…experience @sid-hoff-frenchman , or anyone, have you used Herbie’s or other anti-vibration products on your gear besides speakers? | |
| Herbie’s Spike Decoupling Gliders: my…experience @sid-hoff-frenchman thanks for sharing, and very interesting since you have first hand experience with the three different solutions. Herbie’s seems to be one of those rare products that almost everyone who has tried them seems to endorse. I try... | |
| Herbie’s Spike Decoupling Gliders: my…experience @dynamiclinearity , thanks, that makes sense and I’ve just now also read that same working theory on another site. Gryphon offers spikes for my Diablo 300 integrated as an alternative to the stock plastic feet. Right on the website it says that ... | |
| A trick with Scotch Whisky I have a bottle of Glenfarclas 1954 52 year old scotch in my collection. I will open it when my system has been fully upgraded. Meaning, when I die, I will open it that morning. When I sip it, I will consider the fact that it was made before El... | |
| Your single most significant purchase mistake? I tend to put myself through a brutal, intense, torturous, and lengthy process of questioning my own perceptions of demos before I splurge on significant new gear. It’s terrible and unenjoyable, and it usually ends with me questioning the nature o... | |
| The Risks of Buying Demo Gear That’s a good point. Dealers vary for sure. This particular dealer has the largest, flashiest showroom of anyone within an extremely large radius, and they have by far the most demo gear to try. I think they likely have about $8M worth of demo and... | |
| Herbie’s Spike Decoupling Gliders: my…experience @yeti42 , yep I read about your experiences with that in your other post before I made the purchase. Your post stood out as I think it’s the only example I found where there was something negative said about Herbie’s gliders (at least initially). ... | |
| The Risks of Buying Demo Gear I guess Innuos doesn’t provide full warranties on demo gear…. I could probably argue with them and get the repair free but the cost is minimal. I’m sure it works out sometimes. And to be honest I’m sure many would never have noticed the loose co... | |
| Herbie’s Spike Decoupling Gliders: my…experience @cd318 , thanks for that, and yes that makes a lot of sense. I think it’s a function of just having become used to the bump in the low frequency bloat (which was mild), and it’s just gone now. The overall tone remains balanced and pleasing (thanks... |