regalma1
Responses from regalma1
| A butt-load spent in cables - how much improvemt? No insult intended to tube folks. I have a couple of pieces myself. I just like to make the point occasionally that anything that changes the signal is distorting the signal. But that could be in a good way. A good analogy are sunglasses. Most peo... | |
| A butt-load spent in cables - how much improvemt? I read the HiFi+ review that David12 mentions. It seemed to be a well set up DBT. There were three judges, a high end audio salesman, an esoteric cable company owner and the magazine's test engineer. The last was a total disbeliever in cables. The... | |
| Food for thought for all us audiophiles An interesting article. I suspect that much of the differences many of us hear can be explained by this. I personally have caught myself "hearing" differences based on my expectations and desires rather than what I actually hear. And I call myself... | |
| I'm looking for a big new LCD or projection type Every Sony I SXRD I have seen are eye-catching but ultimately unnacceptable out of the box. They come with the color levels cranked way up. Just look at scene taken in a lush green forest. But wear your sunglasses. I have seen a couple of ones tha... | |
| Are the Marantz SA7001 and Marantz 8001 the same? You're right, just the like recently published test that found kids liked food better if it came in a MacDonald's package. Not that I would ever suggest that this has any relevance to audiophiles :-) | |
| How many more years before cd's become passe? At least until uncompressed music files are widely available online, at a reasonable price. We are far away from that. I think some sort of physical medium will be around for a long time if only to serve the half of the world that does not access ... | |
| $40.000 speaker advise. Check out my list I'd add Tetras to the list, and they are only $33K | |
| Why no love for Integra's? The Onkyo 805 got some really good reports on this forum from people who had heard it. You can expect the Integra to be at least as good. Like Njs says, people love to express their opinions but often they aren't based on any actual experience. | |
| Why HDCD did not become a dominant format? I kind of looked into HDCD early on, but every review I read of it said it sounded worse than standard CD. Kind of put me off. | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate I think the key is the DAC. People on the SB forum give mixed reports on a power supply upgrade. From great to no difference at all. The only guy I read who actually did a single blind test couldn't tell any difference. I built a very nice 3A line... | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate Upstateaudio, that is exactly whet is so frustrating about the SB. If you turn on your CDP and it doesn't work it's back to the store with it. But with computers the dealer would laugh at you. And don't get me started on software makers. Computers... | |
| Marantz versus Denon The Marantz8001 does have the Audyssey circuit. As does the Onkyo 805 which may the best of three from early reports, and a lot less expensive than the Marantz. I looked at Arcam but passed on it due to a number of people describing it has having ... | |
| Squeeze Box Love'n'hate I have to agree with Rbatsch. I have had an SQII for a couple of years. Love and hate. Great when it works, a royal pain when it doesn't. I was wireless then switched to hardwired. Didn't make any difference. Everyonce in a while neither Firefox n... | |
| Rega Saturn. Is it really a giant killer? I just got the new Jazz Times. Their reviewer raves about it. Which considering it isn't vinyl nor tubes is pretty amazing. He claims it is the best player he has ever heard, period. Based on that, if I was looking for a CDP I would have to give i... | |
| Transport...My next Step I didn't offer a conclusion, only an possible alternative. I did some research into jitter reduction devices. One professional review in particular caught my attention. It was of the latest DAC1 with jitter reduction circuitry. The reviewer tested... |