roberjerman
Responses from roberjerman
| stereo receiver recommendations Close your eyes and pick one! They ALL sound the same! | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio I wish we could ask David Faraday his opinion about the sound of wire! | |
| Best sounding Hard Rock How about some Motorhead: Bomber March Or Die 1916 ... | |
| Most overrated bands Put The Sex Pistols and Coldplay in an Ultimate Fight Match cage - guess who will win! | |
| Floyd-The Wall...which one? The British EMI pressing of The Wall is the best I've heard and owned! I bought mine brand-new sealed cheap about 20+ years ago! Second place goes to the original CBS pressing. | |
| MONO cartridge recommendation I recommend a Denon DL102 - a mono mc cartridge from about 1962 designed for radio broadcast of the then prevalent mono LP's. Still available today! | |
| Great music few are aware of. Any genre. How about: Celtic Frost - "Monotheist" Triptykon - "Melana Chasmata" Sleep - "Dopesmoker" Great progressive metal re... | |
| On Step Ups and the Importance of Managing Gain I have been using various transformers with different mc cartridges for 40 years and have always found them preferable to any active device - even the esteemed Levinson JC-1. | |
| On Step Ups and the Importance of Managing Gain Moving coil cartridges have low voltage but high current. Therefore the best way to achieve higher voltage from a mc cartridge is to use a transformer. This neatly accomplishes the task WITHOUT adding ANY noise to the tiny signal from the mc cartr... | |
| Most transparent power amp Julius Futterman H3AA's driving Quad 57's and KLH Nines! I first heard these back in 1978 and the sound quality is indeed a benchmark for openness and transparency! | |
| Here's a fire starter: Analog is as good as SACD The first company to make and release commercial LP's from PCM digital sources was Denon (starting around 1972). These were classical recordings. I first listened to the in '76-'77 on high-quality playback gear ( Denon's TOTL TT, Denon DL103 mc in... | |
| SET - Limitations from Amp, Speaker Match, Both? I use a Will Vincent SE 45 with a pair of Altec Santana 1's. Sensitivity 100db at one meter. 15 inch BiFlex woofers - excellent bass impact and drive! All from a mere 1.75 watts! Vintage Altec or JBL is the way to go with low power tube amps! | |
| Vandersteens, PSB or something else? Thumbs up to the Quatro's - a quality upgrade from a quality line of speakers! | |
| Duelund 16g Speaker Wire Question From my experience with speaker wire, NO! | |
| Getting left channel blobs from Accuphase C220 phono preamp Don't neglect cleaning your stylus! Gunk can and does build up on those tiny diamonds! |