rlwainwright
Responses from rlwainwright
| Your Help Choosing Speakers needed Keep in mind that the Elac speakers, designed by Andrew jones, will be released very soon. I'd wait for those...http://elac.us/speakers/ | |
| ARC Ref 75 vs REF 150 It's hard to speculate if 75 watts/ch. is enough in that room without knowing the speakers being driven...-RW- | |
| Preamps without built in DAC silly question Mapman pretty much nailed it. If you do not need input switching, a DAC with a very good volume attenuator is probably the cleanest, most honest sound you'll get out of that source.If your Wyred DAC - you did not state the model - has a good volum... | |
| New receiver For $1,000, your friend could actually afford some separates: a preprocessor and an amp. In most cases, separates will handily outperform (sonically, not gimmicks) a similarly priced receiver.Tell him to look for something like the Emotiva UMC-200... | |
| Spotify sounds compressed "Pootify"? Seriously?! Man, I REALLY need my morning cuppa... | |
| Spotify sounds compressed Pootify sounds compressed because it IS. 320k MP3 is very good for iPhones and such, but it is most certainly NOT anywhere near hi-res... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... "and the greatest live rock performer of all time."Wow, that's *quite* a statement to make. Especially if you haven't seen all of the greats. I've seen Bruce and a bunch of others - Stones, Who, Santana, Deep Purple, and J. Geils Band among many, ... | |
| Bose 901's with "highend ancillaries"?? Well, if you look at the 901s technology, what do you see? I see a bunch of low-quality midrange drivers being driven waaaaay out of band using extreme EQ. IMHO, this is not a recipe for high-quality sound.Don't get me wrong, they do sound "okay",... | |
| MBL advice Ohhhh man, I have dreams about MBL speakers!! I'm a big fan of very dispersive speakers - have owned Ohms and now Gallo Reference - and my dream speakers are MBLs. I love the looks, the build quality, and the sound! The price has kept me from gett... | |
| Speaker Advice? Ummm, typo in above message, I meant to write "predominantly men" - DOH!-RW- | |
| Speaker Advice? When the heck are audiophiles - predominantly me - gonna start exerting some HAF? I'd tell her this is my 2nd greatest love, after her, and "I'm keeping the speakers I have and their positioning - deal with it..."-RW- | |
| Input on speaker sizing for a lively room. I would 2nd the recommendation to give the Gallos and Ohms a try. Having owned both brands (the Ohm Walsh 2s back in the early 80s and currently have the Gallo Ref. 3.1s) I can tell you that both of these brands do a very good job of producing an ... | |
| AV Receiver recommends I, too, like the Anthem products. I would investigate Anthem, Arcam, Cambridge, and Marantz. You should be able to find a very good receiver in that crowd...-RW- | |
| Hegel Design Flaw? 2 bad units out of their entire production run of several years hardly sounds like the stuff conspiracies are made of. I do think you protest too much...-RW- | |
| Hegel Design Flaw? 2 bad units out of their entire production run of several years hardly sounds like the stuff conspiracies are made of. I do think you protest too much...-RW- |