roberjerman
Responses from roberjerman
| What are these worth, and what can I sell them for? $200 a pair if you are lucky. They've always had a poor reputation for SQ! | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Too High To Die - the Meat Puppets CD. | |
| What is the best OTL out there? @ michaela: I have used original Julius Futterman OTL's successfully with Quad 57's and KLH Nines. I presently have a Harvard Music stereo and a pair of H3AA's. The 6HB5 and 6LF6 TV sweep tubes Julius used as outputs could handle 1.5 amps of curre... | |
| TEST: Older R2R Tube DAC vs Newer Delta-Sigma Solid-State DAC +1 smeyers! Good test! | |
| New Regional Audio Show in Tampa Feb 2019! Good idea! I am near Tampa and would go! | |
| Cable Burn In +1 prof and shadorne! "The capacity of Humans for self-delusion is unlimited" - Mr. Spock. | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? @ ron1319: I'd bet that if you repeated your tests again the next day or next week you'd get different results! Human memory of sonic "differences" is very fallible and prone to error! Making comparative testing difficult and frustrating! | |
| insurance and shipping with UPS And the UPS store would have done it! You'd have to request it and pay extra, of course! | |
| insurance and shipping with UPS Yeah, such a heavy component needs to be double-boxed for sure! | |
| insurance and shipping with UPS You should have stood there and watched to make sure they packed your amp properly! I used my nearby UPS store here in Florida to pack and ship several components. All reached their destinations safely! Maybe my luck was better than yours! I didn'... | |
| Ortofon SPU Century, time to celebrate the heritage? +1 edgewear! How about that new $16K Grado (!!!) that MF raved about in Stereophile? These ultra-expensive cartridges are the equivalent of diamond-encrusted watches! | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? +1 cleeds! I got a good laugh from your response to my "Wire is like ..." post! I do know which goes where! | |
| Nature of Koetsu carts I doubt that Koetsu MC's would have remained popular if they had "boring" midrange sound! You can't really go wrong with any of them! | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? Here's what esteemed reviewer Herb Reichert wrote in Listener (early '90's): "Wire is like a condom. If it works everything is fine. If not ..." | |
| Best vintage amps (late 70s / early 80s) under $3k? Here's a real sleeper: the Brown Electronic Labs BEL 1001. Designed and hand-built over the years by EE Richard Brown at his home in California. I have his very first one (serial no. 0001). A favorite of HP's at TAS around 1980 and considered refe... |