ohlala
Responses from ohlala
| How isolated is your hi-fi? Chris' recount brings up a theme I think about sometimes. In an eccentric hobby, we have to strive to be really honest about what we want in order to be happy. | |
| Headphone suggestions Yeah, Headfi is a good site. They are a fun and helpful group although they are stuck on hifi questions that are mostly taken for granted by me and standard hifi circles. There you can get a notion of the relative tonal balances between headphones... | |
| Pet audiophile peeves - name yours Uneven carpet thickness when I am trying to level my speakers. Finding good speaker designs is unnecessarily challenging, I think. Not many electrostatic options or viable horn options and very few dynamic speakers that are sealed or have active c... | |
| B&W Name Change Theory I have always replaced my cars' stock stereos, but its tricky to do that with newer cars without upsetting the delicate balance electronics and dashboards layouts. So, I will take this as good news as I like B&W's less expensive speakers. Mayb... | |
| Soldering 101 for Audiophiles There a lot of good sources for hifi oriented soldering basics online which are more elaborate than the fine advice here. Finding them via google is very easy, which is perhaps what Herman had in mind. | |
| Need artist's name Muddy Waters? Little Village? | |
| New to headphones - what amp, source? I am using an Imod'd 60gb 4th generation Ipod I bought from Redwine Audio for $425 with shipping and will probably buy mini-to-mini cables from Audiolineout to connect the ipod to my portable amp. | |
| Meridian, ARC or Cary? I actually don't know if this helps you at all. There is an obvious difference in sound between CD and HDCD on at least the Cary 303/100. | |
| Purist Audio Design Character and tone Wow, what a lame response. Hopefully my description will be better than nothing. I have owned PAD Musaeus and HDI for a brief period. They are warm and they have a large sprawling soundstage. They are also really coherent throughout the band and y... | |
| old vs new I really like old, used preamp and amps for stricter budgets. They don't wear out as quickly as mechanical components, unlike CDPs there's no new technology that puts their SQ in the shadows, and they yield a wise alternative to integrated amps. O... | |
| Ready to try vinyl For the TT, arm, cart, and accessories, I reckon around $2500 for a rig that doesn't have large drawbacks relative to cd playback. | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Jeez, sorry for my out-of-place post. I don't know what I thought I read to initiate that response. | |
| Volume Level Could be the setting of the antiskate. Could be other things, but I have forgotten them. Good luck. | |
| Picking components -warm / bright which is righ? If I can't name a tonal balance outside of the default "neutral", then the TB is good. Extending that to each component would be a little bit better because counterbalancing component tonal balances is an unnecessary exercise of estimation, which ... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? What seems to be beyond audiophiles is that the only criteria of blind testing is that the participant has no information but the presented experience. Those who think blind testing is conceptually flawed have to answer a question: If what is desi... |