rcrump
Responses from rcrump
| How much does your system retail for? My 2 channel stuff is about to turn to dust and blow away it is so old, but guess I could replace it for somewhat over 100K........ | |
| cd transport life ecpectancy Yioryos, the mechanism isn't the trouble it is the lasers. They things are like tubes, they wear out and need to be replaced regularly. I run my transport, Pioneer based, 24/7 as nothing to listen to on the radio and get 4-5 years on a laser which... | |
| should everyone just order emm? Albert, John Tucker of Exemplar does a nice modification and sells complete Denon units for just over 3K......It doesn't seem to have the lack of "life" in the upper midrange of the EMM Labs or Lindemann and will decode any format.....Norm has bee... | |
| should everyone just order emm? Craig, give the Exemplar/Denon 2900 a try.....It is a very nice unit that goes for just over 3K. | |
| Why all these JC-1's for sale? Steve, all amps in a run (100 units) are pulled when they arrive at Parasound and are checked for a number of parameters including bias......You stated elsewhere here it took a month to break these in and others have reported it took almost two mo... | |
| Want to build my own equipment. No problem, just have a lot of money laying around and you'll probably do just fine......It will likely cost 5-20 limes as much and take five times as long as you anticipate it will take and cost is the only problem.....If you are really tight the... | |
| Parasound Halo JC-1 Monoblock Break-in Period. Steve, can only speculate, but think it is those monstous Nichicon Gold Tune caps.....Signal is normally in pretty good shape in thirty days, but DC always takes a while longer, 45-50 days in most anything and had the same trouble with the HCA-350... | |
| Parasound Halo JC-1 Monoblock Break-in Period. Audioengr, there are no polypropylene RELcaps in the JC-1, but there is 108v and 95vdc so be careful poking around it there! Rost, you nailed the break-in as you think it is done at thirty days and is a little boring and then they open up as you m... | |
| Amplifier and preamplifier for Wilson Watt puppy 7 Really sounds like a wire problem to me and you didn't mention what you were using.......Sounds like Valhalla to me with depth only at the center albeit with lowered image height......If I guessed right try some other wires as the JC-1s have treme... | |
| Emperical Audio Mods for Parasound Halo JC-1'S You want state of the art for $6K? That isn't possible, but it is possible to build a very good machine made amplifier for that sort of price. I went to the site and it says not one black gate cap was used! Horrors! I don't really care for them pr... | |
| Placette RVC review in Stereophile Tomryan, the Blowtorch is a built to order active preamp that starts at 15K and goes up. CTC is John Curl, Carl Thompson and Bob Crump. We average about five units per year is all and have 26 in the field so it has very limited appeal due to cost ... | |
| Placette RVC review in Stereophile I think you missed the spirit in which advice was given as I have no problem with your liking the Placette as it is a very good commercial unit. To make something that sounds better costs like Hell and normally isn't very commercial or convenient ... | |
| Placette RVC review in Stereophile Last performance I heard was John Renbourn in a club here in Houston that could seat 75 and was just over half full.......That was about three weeks ago...Going to Bluesfest in Maryland this weekend after a rib infestation in Pennsylvania at Muskm... | |
| Placette RVC review in Stereophile Mike and Tomryan, I think you guys are kidding yourselves or you like your music without dynamics if the Placette is your cup of tea. If you like the sound of the Placette then get the one with active circuitry and enjoy the dynamics. Spend some t... | |
| player vs. seperate dac / transport? G&D Transforms took a cheap Pioneer and modified it into the G&D UTP-1.....They have been out of that business for five plus years, but they made over a hundred units which keep popping up on audiogon from time to time......Sean stocks new... |