r_f_sayles
Responses from r_f_sayles
| How long do you or should you keep your gear. Hmm, can’t imagine trading off a nice vintage amplifier, speakers, or turntable. Updates? Sure! But new gear is guarantee of nothing except loss of fortune. Often, someone had it right a very long time ago and many have been floundering to be diff... | |
| Best speakers around $130k? There is no universal best, of course. Not to one pair of ears, certainly not to many ears. Magico would not be on my list. If I had 130k burning a hole in my pocket I’d buy a very nice pair of 30k or less speakers, like what I have. Then buy a ... | |
| Shunyata Denali Damn! I liked the effects of a Denali v2 with Alpha XC v2 power cord so well that I bought another. It made a very nice improvement on the front end of my kit. Aspects of the music felt like they started coming from nowhere. But when I put one on my Atm... | |
| What were the radio stations of your youth that helped you on your music/audio journey? Back in the commercial free/free format FM days... So much great music listening CJOM 88.7 FM Windsor Ontario WABX 99.5 Detroit Michigan Jerry Lubin Dave Dixon was often vulgar and yet constantly thoughtful and encyclopedic of the artists and... | |
| Ever Been Too High? I have to agree with millercarbon and russ69 here. | |
| Fidelity vs. Musicality...........Is there a tug of War? Be as critical as you care to be about the “sounds” of your reproduction system. If you are continually tweaking and searching for more/different products, you are failing, and possibly even miserable. If your system doesn’t make cohesive, convin... | |
| The "Snake Oil" Trope Just wish I had been handy enough and smart enough starting a couple of decades ago to have created and manufactured really expensive, fat, noise reducing and DTCD enhancing power cables that were named after snakes! | |
| So how can a great system solve less than great recordings I listen to music that I love, not the fidelity of a recording for the sake of its sound. The very idea of Audiophile recordings makes me disgusted. My kit is very resolving with a Brinkmann Balance, OTL amplifiers, and field-coiled loudspeakers. ... | |
| Garth Powell on Why Audioquest does not make AC Regenerators I see Garth as partly right. He knows much about where noise comes from and how it effects our listening experience but honestly, his solution with Niagara works for a lot of systems but not all setups. Shunyata Denali v2 worked out really phenome... | |
| Anyone else upset about new Audiogon policies? I too have been a part of this community from early on. A fact of life is that thing change. I also understood when A’Gon was sold by its original creators that change of ownership meant change of minds and ways, perhaps different priorities. I li... | |
| VINYL SUCKS! He needs to hear a better tt | |
| Most rooms don’t need acoustical treatment. Yeah, nothing really matters except just keeping on buying newer, more expensive gear to impress your friends. Don’t worry about cables or the AC mains either. And don’t be confused because some of the greatest studios and music halls in history u... | |
| The Lifespan of an LP? Yep me too. May records I have are from the fifties a new sixties and still sound better then many reissues. Lifespan? With something like 5k, until I’m tired of hearing it | |
| Your favorite album cover... The Velvet Crush _Teenage Symphonies to GodTom Waits _Frank’s Wild YearsAli Akbar Khan _Ragas of IndiaXTC _SkylarkingThe Beatles _Abbey RoadREM _Murmur | |
| Does Power Cord Require Burn-In To Sound Good? Take a deep breath, be open, be inquisitive, hold a modest amount of skepticism with unproven assertions, be careful opening your wallet, but also question current scientific tenets and limits because life is full of experiences that are valid yet... |