rcrump
Responses from rcrump
| How to Listen ?? If you don't play an instrument then spend a bunch of time in small pubs, coffee houses or jazz clubs listening to acoustic music.......When you find a system that transports you back to the club experience buy it........ | |
| Amp protection circuitry? all that its cracked up to be? Lightning storms are very problematic for me as I have to really turn the volume up to drown it out knowing that if I get hit my insurance will pick up the new gear...... Lightning is a strange thing and best way to prepare is to get your insuranc... | |
| Seeking opinion for a super duper power cord.... Rather than buying an expensive power cord I would sell the PS and pick up the Accuphase regenerator that mes is selling as it would make more difference than any of the power cords mentioned...... | |
| Audio Desk CD Edge Trimmer I have had the Desk Systeme for a few years now and I only cut the CDs that are keepers...Poor performances of sound go in another pile to be sold off or given away.......The CDs actually sound worse until the static (I am assuming this is the pro... | |
| What tube preamp to get to smooth out the sound????? You must be thinking of my first wife..... | |
| What tube preamp to get to smooth out the sound????? I thought I was stretching it to suggest a fluid to make the CDs less bright! Yeah, I sharpen the edge of CDs with the CD cutter (Audio Desk Systeme) and use a couple more fluids on them as well, but Optrix is a great place to start and all the re... | |
| What tube preamp to get to smooth out the sound????? Optrix or similar liquids on the CDs will smooth things out quite a bit........ | |
| Tools for cartridge mounting... Techni-tool, www.techni-tool.com sells torque screwdrivers, but they are very expensive at $150-500......They also sell what is termed "round nose" pliers which do a great job of not crushing the cartridge clips as would a snipe nose or chain nose... | |
| I Need 90 degree PowerCord for ML 380S ? Useful engineering there I'll tell ya! Most any of the aftermarket folks know the problem and can make a cord with the right angle connector that will work on the Levinson products. I have a Levinson dealer that sells various aftermarket cords and... | |
| Best Turntable: Rockport or Goldmund? For those that have not experienced what Detlof is talking about it is sort of like living in the city with all the normal street noise and then being whisked away to Montana with no ambient noise.....The Rockport uses an air bearing platter with ... | |
| Best Turntable: Rockport or Goldmund? I own a Rockport Capella and had a Goldmund Studio prior to that and have a friend that sold his Goldmund Reference to purchase a Rockport System Two Sirius.....Biggest change was the silence followed by the dynamics.....I have had the Capella now... | |
| "Pace", it's importance for enjoyment? PRAT is imperative for anything resembling an illusion of being transported to the recording venue....Venue information seems to come primarily from below 100hz and if you ain't got no bass, you ain't got no space seems to apply to PRAT......Most ... | |
| T.G. Audio I.C. cables? Mike, Mes has silver RCAs on sources and gold plated XLRs running from preamp to amps.....There isn't very much difference between the gold and silver, just enough to take the edges off..... | |
| T.G. Audio I.C. cables? Deluxe, the TG HSR ICs were voiced using a very large system wherein all but the Rockport Speakers and Turntable was built or highly modified by yours truly.....The interconnects proved to be problematic in smaller systems so I changed the decorat... | |
| scd 777es sacd sony mod worth it? Demian Martin, Tony DiGiovine and I formed DDR Mfg to build a fancy DAC and Transport....These are called the Number Cruncher and Number Server and are in boxes to match the Blowtorch preamp I build with Curl and Thompson and Mark has the updated ... |