randy-11
Responses from randy-11
| Aggressive know it all salesman You said speaking to both American and German Manufacturers, but I think most people here are discussing salesmen in retail shops.Any good manf. will be chock full of engineers, hopefully analog EE's, digital ones, etc. and not an overload of manu... | |
| Music Server format? read a wiki on WAV, FLAC, AIFF if you don't want to get into sampling theory | |
| Your single favorite component AR turntable; Advent speakers, or Tom Holman's apt pre-amp... or maybe one of my Advent cassette decks or one of the Naks I had... | |
| Aggressive know it all salesman Because the average audiophile customer is so poorly informed. For a high end sports car, the customer is usually a "car guy."I deal with know it all audiophile salesmen by asking them where they got their engineering degree.If they have a good c... | |
| Best Integrated amp for under 4k Creek 100A ?? | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Here is a description of what I did some years ago... Massive and rigid speaker stands are much in vogue today, precipitated by the desire to minimize relative motion of the speaker and listener. I have largely overcome this relative m... | |
| Music Server format? not daunting if you buy a mac mini, which makes a dandy music server & use iTunes to control everything - it is dirt simpleuse a Lossless compression scheme like Apple Lossless, etc.mp3 is lossy, which means that some of the bits are thrown aw... | |
| Step Up from a Sunfire anything in current production? | |
| California Audio Labs – Icon Mk II CD Player - HDCD Thx for the info on ID'ing the unit.BTW, I've used mine for many years with no problems ever. | |
| California Audio Labs – Icon Mk II CD Player - HDCD Mine came direct from Cal Audio but it says HDCD on it and does not say "PowerBoss"The Stereophile article says "The Power Boss upgrade for the California Audio Labs Icon Mk.II ... adds HDCD " but it does not say that an HDCD player has PowerBoss... | |
| California Audio Labs – Icon Mk II CD Player - HDCD I already own this unit and it has HDCD. It sounds very very close to an Oppo BDP-103 in sound quality, despite its age. I heard that if it has the HDCD, then it has the Powerboss upgrade for sure.Does anybody know if that's true? | |
| New cutting edge cable tech! skin effect relates to RF circuits, not anything in a stereo | |
| Amps which are Great, but either Unknown or Underpriced Sunfire amps | |
| Pre-amp better than Sonic Frontiers In my view, the Line One does NOT have a good remote control system.Thx for the tip on the ARC.I thought this was clear but I am interested in a different two channel pre-amp with better sound quality than a Sonic Frontiers Line One. I do not wan... | |
| Pre-amp better than Sonic Frontiers The upgrade is too expensive.BTW, I am looking for something with a good remote, and easy to use balance controls too. |