oregonpapa
Responses from oregonpapa
| One big reason why brick and mortar high end audio dealers struggle. jaxwired >>> "Step one, no commission sales people."Why the attitude regarding commissioned salespeople? No offense intended, but you are displaying a common prejudice regarding salespeople. The difference between what you experienced, ... | |
| Seeing sounds and music..... mahgister ...Everything counts, as I'm sure you are aware. The three big areas to pay attention to are 1. Room acoustics. 2. Controlling micro-vibrations. 3. Cleaning up the AC power coming into the system. All three areas reduce extraneous noise ... | |
| Seeing sounds and music..... "Music here is no more only melody, rythm, harmonies, but also a potential "story" displayed in visible forms."The late Harry Person of TAS fame called it "The Holy Grail." It has to do with recreating the actual event either recorded live or in t... | |
| Massive computer meltdown sends audiophile back to the 1970’s and better sounding LP’s! "Dave Brubeck A-la-Mode."A really good album. | |
| Mono solves all +1 for yoby. | |
| Mono solves all The cure for the imbalance caused by using a red fuse in one channel, and a blue fuse in the other channel, is to replace both with PURPLE fuses. All will be hunky-dory again. FrankPS: Let's see if this post lasts for more than ten minutes. :-) | |
| How do you listen? Speaking as a music lover first, and an audiophile a distant second, I’ve discovered that each recording has its own proper volume setting in order to attain the best possible sound quality and emotional connection with the music. | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope ^^^ "An empty mouth speaker." The perfect analogy. Thanks for that, Mahgister. :-) Frank | |
| Vinylistas and Tubers - One and the same? I love my vinyl and tubes. There is such a sense of realism about the combination. With that said, my digital system is a Grover Huffman modified Pioneer Elite DVD player that has me shaking my head in disbelief that red-book CDs can sound so anal... | |
| What percentage of the time do you listen to records vs. digital sources? I listen to about 80% CDs and 20% vinyl. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. But when you hear an LP that sounds like this reissue of Kind of Blue, then you're hearing what analog can do better than digital >>>https://store.aco... | |
| Collective letter s to Stereophile "Time will tell how the magazine fares over the next couple of years."And now as the years have passed, Stereophile continues to get thinner and thinner.J. Gordon Holt, RIP.Frank | |
| Fuses millercarbon ...Thanks for the info on the QSA Violet fuse. I'm curious ... by any chancecan you feel any roughness under the two pieces of black tape, like maybe a rough sand-like substance? Yes, please get an SR Purple to make the comparison. Th... | |
| Small Room... Big Stereo slaw >>>"Check out my systems page."Nice start on the record collection, slaw. :-)Frank | |
| Something For The Fuse Guys ... jafant ...This is the LP I alluded to in my PM to you:https://www.ebay.com/itm/373533136071?hash=item56f84f54c7:g:AHIAAOSwE8FgbzgkIn the PM, I referred to the composer as Hyden instead of Paganini. Frank | |
| Everything Does Seem To Matter I once had a nice pair of Acoustat IVs and swapped the binding posts out for WBT posts. Got an improvement there for sure. I swapped out the stock binding posts on my last two pairs of speakers with Cardas copper binding posts. Nice improvements t... |