phd
Responses from phd
| Silky and soft highs: product of coloration? Still think the amp is the most important component in the system. The type of speakers you own plus personal tastes will have a big influence on the type of amplification you may choose. Any one of us could build a system around a good sounding a... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame In the realm of solid state, definately Steve McCormack for designing gear that is very musical, involving, & affordable which is further enhanced by revisions! | |
| Why I sell The last thing I want to see in an ad is a lenghty expanation of why your selling, a waste of time & space, this will not give me the incentive to buy as a worthy product should sell on its own merits. Like TVAD mentioned the most important th... | |
| Why I sell I don't think anyone should have to justify why you are selling & it makes me laugh when I see an ad with various reasons why as if there should be some sort of guilt associated with it. I buy to try and have sold a great deal of gear that I l... | |
| EQ before Preamp? Definately after the preamp & then into the trash. Why would you want an equalizer? It will rob your system of its best abilities: detail, transparency, sparation, etc. and inject more distortion and noise. You know if you can eventually pull ... | |
| Why do amps sound different? Atmasphere, you are correct, that distinction has been clearly made at the link you provided. Thankyou, I found it very interesting and informative! | |
| Why do amps sound different? I never look to specs other than output power to make an amplifier purchase since specs are seldom an indicator how an amp will sound. Most quality amps are designed by ear, the mfgr applying different circuit topologies, trying different electron... | |
| Most resolving, transparent amps. Rodmann99999, thankyou for your response and thoughts. I think you and I agree that transparency is high on the list as a system requirement. Anyway I have not made alot of cables/interconnect changes lately so I'm going to check out your recommen... | |
| Golden Tube amps Foeraus, I think your comparison of the Golden Tube amp to a solid state amp is like comparing apples to oranges. But at least so far you are the only one that has made a direct comparison of one tube design (Golden Tube) to another like your VTLs... | |
| Tube rectification Tube rectification is more desirable in terms of sound quality and usually adds more cost to the tube preamp. Every tube preamp I have owned that was tube rectified was better sounding than one using solid state rectification, although there are a... | |
| audio research sells out good or bad ? Very sad indeed. Look what happened to Aragon when Klipsch bought them out. Same deal when Saul sold Marantz and Fisher sold out to Sanyo. Anyway I'm not suggesting that Klipsch is a bad company but buy-outs in audio don't usually result in better... | |
| upgrade advice Rotel gear is pretty good for the price but it can be bettered. With the B&w I think you already layed the foundation to what can & will be an excellent sounding system. A friend of mine seemed to like the Krell sound with these speakers. ... | |
| Do Integrateds sound better than Receivers? All things being equal, an integrated will sound better than a receiver because there is less components in one box resulting in less interference between components. Not to mention a receiver's tuner, preamp & amp all share the same power sup... | |
| preamp for classe ca200 Cortw, very wise choice although some of the above mentioned preamps are excellent as well. The Bel Canto Pre 1 is considered by some owners as their reference preamp. I am currently looking to buy one myself. | |
| Golden Tube amps Don't buy them, their sound quality is questionable, I was very dissappointed. Also reliability can easily become an issue & the manufacturer is out of business as mentioned above. |