onhwy61
Responses from onhwy61
| It's 2008 Didn't Townsend do the remote VTA thing already? | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers For the most part audiophile oriented speakers have always had "tailored" responses. When compared to to accurate studio type monitors the typical audiophile speaker provide excess warmth, image depth and various forms of treble emphasis. Is the i... | |
| Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder The Yardbirds are members of the Rock Hall of Fame. One hit wonders they are not. | |
| Damping Maple Amp Stands? Don't put any dampening material between the CD and the maple. Instead place the equipment directly on the rack or use some type of cone. You want to provide a direct link between the equipment and the rack. The maple will provide sufficient dampe... | |
| Great country music recording Dwight Yoakam "Buenas Noches..."Lyle Lovett "Joshua Judges Ruth"k.d. lang "Shadowland" | |
| Audiophile rites Q-tips can do more harm than good. Any of the OTC ear wax removal kits (i.e. Murine) will work much better and are safer. | |
| PC Software converts 16/44 to 24/96 format It looks like it's a software upsampler with a word length interpolator. It may improve the sound of redbook data streams, but it won't bring them to 96kHz/24 bit quality. WAV files can be any number of different sample rates and word lengths as d... | |
| Suggestion please: How to improve sound. The NHT 3.3s are real good speakers, but they are demanding about setup. Make sure that they are absolutely parallel to each other and be prepared to spend alot of time experimenting with the distance from the rear wall. They like power, but chang... | |
| Audiophile Archive: Digitizing Reel to Reel Tapes I may have been the person who said not to bother, but that is based upon having digitized 900 of my own albums. My point in the other thread was that it's very time intensive. However, if these are one off tapes and your friend is only looking to... | |
| What Do You Get When You Spend Megabucks? Fcrowder, great system. Have you set up the Finite Elemente? I'd love to hear your impressions. | |
| Tok20000 is going pro Best of luck!Could you give a little more info on the hard disk player. | |
| Does your system's sound change with the weather? I think Mark is on the right track. The weather is a major influence on moods which in turn would effect your sonic acuity. That said, some speakers are sensitive to humidity levels. | |
| What Do You Get When You Spend Megabucks? Thanks to all those who responded. I started with the premises that it takes a certain amount of money to attain high quality music reproduction and I make an assumption that it's at least possible by spending even more money that performance can ... | |
| Who's the Cadillac of Hi-End Audio? Here's a link to an article from the LA Times regarding Cadillac and hip hop. There's also plenty of interesting references to Cadillacs and rock history. | |
| PLz help?best tube preamp: balanced + soundstage? It would help if you provided the output impedance of the D/A and the input impedance of the preamp? |