rok2id
Responses from rok2id
| Worst CD player 'Marantz SA-8001, Sounded like crap in my system.'The SA-8001 is a player praised by all established reviewers that I have read. Including Stereophile.Maybe the rest of your system was responsible for the 'crappy' sound. I have owned it for many y... | |
| Ears. The ultimate handicap. I think it is a great post. But you must be careful lest you be declared a .... omg, dare I say it? A TROLL!!!!crazy tweaks and deep thinkging?? 1 out of 2 ain't bad.:) | |
| Ears. The ultimate handicap. Based on your observations, what type speakers and amp do you think Alfred P. Newman would own? | |
| Top 50 audiophile magazines to be reviewed in? The Audio CriticIf it's still online. At the least you will get an honest evaluation of your tweaks.cheers | |
| An audiophile dilemma I gotta wonder, on the basis of your earlier comment, whether you've actually heard a great speaker.Read my post'primarily speaking of electronics'. But does apply to speakers to a lesser degree. | |
| An audiophile dilemma .I wasn't aware that anyone compared a $129 dollar receiver to a $20,000 amp.. they don't now, they did back in the day of honest researchers.. I think the brands were pioneer and Krell, but I can't be sure.why do you say everything twice? | |
| An audiophile dilemma 'And IMO, it is the folks incapable of being able to tell, who try to say no one can.thank you.'Well hush my mouth. | |
| An audiophile dilemma A lot of blind testing was done with a strange system, and in a strange environmentSo? Are you saying you need familiar surroundings to be able to tell the difference between a $129 dollar receiver and a $20,000 'high-end' amp? | |
| An audiophile dilemma 'YEah Rok2id, we are actually all just pretending to be able to hear any differences'AHA!! just as I have always suspected!And don't trash YORX, I plan to upgrade to a YORX system one day, once the kids are outta college. | |
| An audiophile dilemma 'Once you stack them side by side with great stuff though, you can hear the deficiencies.'Only if you can see the equipment, will you be able to 'hear' the imagined differences / deficiencies. Put everything out of sight and NO ONE can tell or hea... | |
| An audiophile dilemma Are those high end (and very expensive) speakers really better than the JBL's?All things considered, NO! The media we are playing was not recorded by God. None of it sounds live. So why spend a lot of your hard earned money trying to reproduce imp... | |
| What would you do? It never ceases to amaze how quickly the members of this site will 'forgive' and 'understand' any outrage, screwup or lack of quality control, as long as the culprit is a so-called high-end manufacturer, and the MSRP is sufficiently outrageous.$50... | |
| Bob Dylan finally makes sense.... Onhwy61 / Rpeluso:I guess I will have to haul out my box set and get to know Mr Dylan again. My memory could be faulty. After all, it was a few centuries ago when I was 'young'. I did see him live once in concert in Nurnberg, Germany.The concert w... | |
| Top 5 Classical recordings 'My question is why no mention of Rachmaninoff? Is it the different era?'One critic said he, Rachmaninoff, wrote Movie theme music.Killed him for me.Cheers | |
| $1,500 Amp budget - Best options? Consider the Harman Kardon HK990. |