rod1957
Responses from rod1957
| When did you ever hear a system sound so life-like I've visited a lot of high end Hi-fi stores in my lifetime, and have heard very good playback systems that have come close... but ultimately no cigar awarded when compared to a live performance. | |
| int-amp for Paradigm Studio-20s? ... tube or SS? The mids and the bass from the 7" woofers were excellent right out of the box. The highs from the metal tweeters though is another story. My previous speakers had silk domes and could have possibly biased my initial perceptons of the Studio 20's m... | |
| int-amp for Paradigm Studio-20s? ... tube or SS? Rob- I forgot to mention I bought these speakers new, and they require an extremely long time to break in. | |
| int-amp for Paradigm Studio-20s? ... tube or SS? I own the V4 version of this speaker, and can vouch for the bright and revealing tweeter comments of this specific model. I bought a tube Preamp to solve this issue and have been quite satisfied with the results. Yes... go the tube integrated rout... | |
| Van Alstine preamp sound character? I bought my Super pas4i off E-bay for just over $200 from a seller whose ad read, " Un-tested and as is ". The seller appeared to be honest and answered every mundane question I had in a polite and sincere manner. I've never owned a tubed Pre, and... | |
| The Hub: Is a Vinyl Revival in progress? Usually I violently disagree with just about anything Mr.Fremmer opines about, however in this rare instance, I agree with him 100 percent. I just hope he's not a victim of the broken clock anology, and has truly and finally come to his senses. | |
| Loudness War Back in the day when LP's ruled the media world, these same complaints were constantly being heard. Especially on hard rock recordings. I agree with the poster above, that the reason being is that the vast majority of the music buying public tende... | |
| Vibraphone recommendations? Stick with Cal Tjader and, buy the newest Verve version/re-release of Soul Sauce. A 60's classic. | |
| Speaker Burn In... This issue is exactly why many seasoned listeners buy used speakers. Some new speakers take hundreds of hours for proper break in, and even longer periods, the larger the driver. | |
| Tone controls? Sorry about the heresy. One that quickly comes to mind, was a particular add on tone control unit made by Parasound and, was designated model# REQ-150. A small black box that received a good review from the Sensible Sound a while back. | |
| Audio By Van Alstine Amps/Preamps I also have an older Super Pas4i preamp that will never leave my system. I pretty much agree with Recordho as far as transparency but, when it comes to imaging, realism, layering and, 3D'ism (If such a word exist's), it clearly keeps up with the b... | |
| Budget Low-Capacitance Interconnects Tascam professional series low capacitance cable. Still the best and most budget friendly RCA cable of all time, if you can find it. | |
| Jimmy Smith's best albums? Put me down with " The Sermon ". | |
| Klipschorn: Still relevant?? Larry, Did I hear you right! Did you you say the Cornwall is coming back into production? How and where did you get that info from? I'm asking because I've been searching for a clean pair of Cornwall 2's for the longest time. | |
| Today was Count Basie's Birthday If you can't fall asleep,don't count sheep,Count Basie! |