rsuminsby
Responses from rsuminsby
| Theta or Bryston amps I use Bryston 9B/7B combo with Thiel 2.3s and an MCS center, and I certainly don't find the system too bright. The only thing I dislike about the Bryston in the darn EU-compliant output terminals....they don't work well with spades. But you can al... | |
| Shipping to APO address Hate to take exception to Elevick, but...I was overseas in the UK for three years and had a number of audio items shipped to me via USPS to my APO address, with no problems. I normally recieved packages within a week to 10 days, although Kosovo wi... | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... Gliderguider - you'd be guessing correctly! My squadron has a very impressive collection of malts in our pub....usually 2 dozen or so. And Guiness on tap as well! | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... Gliderguider - you have a true appreciation for fine malts! Have you ever been to Islay? A very remote spot - I've never set foot there, but have flown over it many times during a tour of duty flying fighters in England. | |
| What did YOU get for Christmas? Some great posts in the holiday spirit....season's greetings and happy new year to all on Audiogon! | |
| Wire type frome Home Depot good for 12-volt trig I can't see any reason why a low-voltage DC wire run would need to be shielded.... | |
| CD Player with volume control? Resolution Audio CD-50 and CD-55 | |
| Which components knocked you out on first listen? I recall my first exposure to the Ohm F as well (at tech Hi Fi in Boston)...incredibly powerful.Koss ESP-9 electrostatic headphones.Magnapan Tympani 1Ds, driven by Audio Research electronics....one of the first true high end systems I ever heard (... | |
| What causes clipping? What you describe sounds like a mechanical noise made by the woofer cone exceeding it's excursion limits (although I'm just guessing.)"Clipping" in the normal sense of the word is the flattening of the sine wave in a signal when an amplifier "runs... | |
| New Digital Video Essentials disc? The original Video Essentials DVD is very good, although navigating the menus can be a little frustrating....the manner in which the disc is divided into chapters doesn't seem very intuitive. In addition to the test patterns and tones, it has an o... | |
| PS Audio P300?? It can, but since it may generate a fair amount of heat, and run up your electic bill. The P300 is only about 50% efficient, so if you have a 50w load (say, a preamp and CD player left in standby modes), the P300 draws about 100w from the wall. Bu... | |
| equal cable length? Coiling the cable makes it a crude inductor. If it's a well shielded cable, it's probably less of an issue, but it's one of those audiophile no-nos. I use Transparent Super cables of differing lengths...I've been told the networks "tune" the resis... | |
| How did you get into this hobby? When I was about 15, I was just dabbling into stereo when an audiophile friend of my parents loaned me (for about 6 months!) a pair of Janzen hybrid speakers with electrostatic tweeters. They were way beyond anything I could afford (if I recall, $... | |
| Best CD Player for Boeing Office System???? Spring the extra few hundred and get an iPod....you can bring hundreds of CD's worth of music to work (my 40G Ipod has over 240 hours of music, mostly ripped at 320 kbps). I find it pretty satisfactory for background listening, and it's great for ... | |
| Cd players with variable output? The Resolution Audio CD-50 and CD-55 have variable analog out, if you can find one used. Excellent units. |