rtorchia
Responses from rtorchia
| Good reasonably priced phono stage recommendation As things worked out I found a little British made Creek integrated from 1998 that sounds great and is in perfect condition. Amazingly Creek still sells the phono card that one can put inside to activate the phono/ aux. stage. A local expert loves... | |
| Hypex or Exogal Let me know how you are dealing with the remote issue. I have an Android and was unable to use the app. | |
| Major EXOGAL Comet/Ion problems I have to say that for this outlay of money we should have something better than functionally adequate, to use your characterization. Also, I was part of the same trial and I did not feel the remote replacement worked very well. This product is, ... | |
| Major EXOGAL Comet/Ion problems I am sympathetic but they need to step forward and let people know what is happening. Being evasive and hoping the problems will go away is not helpful. They are saying they have a European distributer which indicates that possibly the remote modu... | |
| How to go about collecting Classical Music After reading these responses I think you need to prioritize between the desire for good sound and the desire for good music. Some awful sounding historical performances kill modern digital ones. Get the condensed Grove Dictionary and read Gramoph... | |
| Takedown of pricey servers, streamers OCD HiFi guy The audio hobby is largely a fetish, one in which I admittedly indulge. Over the years I have concluded that there is little relation between price and sound quality. People tend to pay megabucks for a very minor return in audible improvements. Bu... | |
| Where are the Exogal Vortex streamers? Apparently the Vortex models are not in production despite the fact that they are all listed and described in detail on the company site. That is extremely odd. I wanted to buy one and had to dig around to figure this out. There is no longer an ap... | |
| Exogal Comet / Ion To answer your question, the Exogal sounds fantastic. When the units were at their prime they had a wonderful application for iPads and such devices by which you could operate the system. This was formerly considered a major asset integral to the ... | |
| Hypex or Exogal One thing to consider here is that Exogal no longer has the application so you are stuck with the cheap plastic remote that nobody ever wanted to use. This is doubly bad because the tiny window on the Comet is very difficult to read. Without the a... | |
| Adcom circa 1990 amp and preamp Sounds like some good stuff. Certainly I have a degree of nostalgia but if that were the dominating factor I would be into receivers. People tend to equate quality in audio with dollars spent and I have to say that I could live with this Adcom stu... | |
| Benefits of a "streaming hub"? Thanks for your comments. I read up on all this and it seems I can benefit from a server. Even so, some people state the iMac is fine. But it seems reasonable that a server will constitute an improvement. Thanks again. | |
| Craigslist Fraud I have made a number of successful transactions on CL for all sorts of stuff and met some very nice people. In my ads I state that I am hip to all of the scams so it isn’t worth wasting time for either of us. Of course some people try but I ridicu... | |
| Does anyone know what is happening with Exogal? Thanks for the info. They would do well to put this on an updated website because as it stands one gets the impression they dropped off the face of the earth. | |
| The cost of LP's and CD's - an observation Many people, like me, still love their CDs and they can be had very cheaply. Used LPs are ridiculously expensive and prone to defects characteristics of vinyl. Many of the domestic LP pressings were simply awful (Westminster, Angel, Columbia, RCA,... | |
| Leave tube amps always on? My wife left my Rogue tube amp and pre-amp system on all of the time and it was expensive both in tube replacement and utility expenses. The big amp was like a fireplace! I sold the whole system and replaced it with an Exogal digital power DAC com... |