rcprince
Responses from rcprince
| The Best Amplifier Ever ? Zaikesman, I used both of those amps back in high school with my band, I second your nominations, deleted though they may be from the rankings! Always liked that Ampeg... | |
| Anybody ever hear an H-CAT amp or preamp???? I too was at that meeting, but on the first day (it was a two day demo, to allow more members to hear the system), when there were still some cabling and break-in problems. The amp sounded quite ordinary for a while, although towards the end of th... | |
| An unscientific poll: How often are you happy? Detlof, I presume you mean the Tele 802 and 803 series, which I use in my preamp and are as good as they say! Yes, I think that I really don't want to listen critically very much after all these years. The Lamm is a nice piece in that it handles t... | |
| An unscientific poll: How often are you happy? I think it's the recordings, and all of them are CDs. SACDs sound terrific and involving, as do LPs. Some Cds, though, with the added high frequency extension, seem a little too threadbare harmonically, even upsampled. After listening last night, ... | |
| An unscientific poll: How often are you happy? Just came on this post, as usual with Zaikesman a good one. I'll add my recent experience which may be of interest. My Jadis JP80 is currently out of the system for repairs and a modification, and my dealer has been kind enough to lend me a Lamm L... | |
| Dedicated outlet..suggestions.. One thing to be careful about if you use separate dedicated lines for the amps (and perhaps Rives' suggestion alleviates this problem) is the possiblity of a ground loop hum, even if the recepticles are grounded to the same box. I've had that prob... | |
| Anybody know the lowest freq on "Who Let The Dogs Out"? Phild is correct; most pop stuff like that has a 60 hz bump; it's not as low as it seems (disco is a prime example). I agree with Cw's post, well put! | |
| Best recoding of Mozart's Requiem A second vote for the Schreier/Philips recording--the soloists are excellent, as is the choral work--that's the one I listen to for pleasure and to brush up on my part when my choir sings it. The new SACD with the Netherlands Bach ensemble is also... | |
| Questions about a new Ruby 2 cartridge You might want to try 100 ohms loading for starters, but also play with the VTA a bit. The Ruby in my experience clearly has a sweet spot in the VTA, and if your VTA is too high it can sound bright. Good luck; it is a nice cartridge, shouldn't sou... | |
| indoor antenna? The best indoor antenna I ever used, before I got an outdoor one, is the old Day Sequerra indoor antenna. It was fairly expensive new; if you can pick one up in the used market it would be worth an audition. | |
| Researching an Accordion Music. Please help. Well, this may or may not interest you, but Vanguard back in 1961 made a recording with the Hohner Accordion Orchestra (!) featuring renditions of light classical pieces such as the William Tell Overture, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and othe... | |
| What is a good intro to "Mahler"? I agree with Jorge_err. I was never a big Mahler fan, as my Dad never liked Mahler so I didn't hear it much in our home. I've sort of been exploring Mahler the last few years. The most accessible of his symphonies is the First, and the best record... | |
| Listener magazine defunct ?? Artmaltman, you're thinking of The Audiophile Voice, still in publication. Art Dudley is a talented writer and a fairly sane member of this hobby; hopefully he can retain that perspective if indeed he has joined the S-phile. | |
| Stereophile "confirms" Moncrieff's SACD comments ? Tswhitsel: Nice to see another Audio Logic fan. Jerry's designs turn the pcm stream into DSD in the converter, which is why they sound as good as they do, in my view. Now imagine his analog stage, with a separate power supply, used in place of the... | |
| NBS cables vs Kharma cables with Lamm gear ? While David's experience may hold true for the earlier NBS cables, I've found the NBS Omega to be quite neutral, getting rid of that bass thickness and the slightly rolled highs of the Monitor 0 that David notes, quite transparent and very good at... |