russbutton
Responses from russbutton
| Harley quote Y'all are listening to the wrong Harley.This is the Harley you should be listening to. | |
| Speaker upgrade for classical music @ssmaudio The Linkwitz LX521 is intended for stereo listening. A friend originally built his with the intention to have it sit on either side of his large screen TV set, but it seemed to me that that large flat panel interfered with his imagin... | |
| AUDIOPHILE OR JUST CRAZY ? Get RID of the ADC graphic EQ. Really. Send it off to electronics recycling. If your speakers need that to get sound you want, you have the wrong speakers. But then, the Klipsch LaScala was intended as a PA speaker. No decent low end to speak of e... | |
| What do I do next to improve sound? If you're a headphone guy, then yeah, a DAC with a headphone amp. I run a major hi-end audio system in my front room and use a laptop running Ubuntu Linux as a digital player into a Peachtree DAC-iT (less than $200 on the used market), but it do... | |
| Power strips- too many choices Most power strips are just extra outlets. But if what you really want is a proper surge protector, get this one from Belkin. Cost you all of $35 and will do a BETTER job of surge protection than a UPS system or even a typical power conditioner. | |
| Best Speakers You Have Ever Heard In Your Home I think you're going to find that for most people, it will be their current pair as people typically move forward, not backwards with their gear. I've been running a pair of Linkwitz Orions for about 13 years now and am still in love with them.Li... | |
| Amp recommendations With your budget, get a pair of VTA M125 mono block amps at 120 watts each. You can build them as a kit for all of $2300, or get them fully assembled and tested for about $3000 - less without tubes.If you feel that you don’t need or want that kind... | |
| Speaker suggestions under 4k Your very best value is in a good DIY loudspeaker project, or possibly finding a well-made DIY set used. Don’t turn your nose up at DIY. Many of the designs are done by the best audio engineers on the planet and are just as good as the best commer... | |
| Speaker upgrade for classical music I've never liked Polk Audio loudspeakers. Big cabinets stuffed to the gills with cheap drivers and sold for cheap. They look good, but...Your very best value is in a good DIY loudspeaker project, or possibly finding a well-made DIY set used. D... | |
| Does Anyone Think CD is Better Than Vinyl/Analog? Oh boy...I have about a dozen recordings in both vinyl and digital. There things about each medium I like better than the other, so I would say that neither is superior. They are different.The big downside to vinyl is that it is expensive to get... | |
| Budget tower speakers that rock! I hope you're ready for some blasphemy. For under $1000, the very best value for playing rock 'n roll at level are a good set of PA loudspeakers. I like Bag End best. | |
| For the Audiophile with a taste for good design(looks)....a question. I run custom made Linkwitz Orion loudspeakers. The stock design is a kind of Danish Modern look and I live in a 100 year old Craftsman bungalow, so I had them custom made in a Mission style. They look terrific and sound awesome.https://systems.... | |
| Music streamers There is NO difference between a streamer and a laptop. That's the beauty of digital audio. Bits is bits. There is so very much stupid BS out there. Money spent on USB cables and the like is money wasted. Transfer of digital information eithe... | |
| I Was Considering Active, Then I Watched This ... OK folks. Listen up. Here’s WHY active crossovers are so very much better than passive. A single loudspeaker driver is an inductor, and provides a frequency dependent, reactive load to an amplifier. Looking at the image here, the blue line on the ... | |
| Do chinese tube preamp/amp clones interest you? If cost is a big issue for you and you'd like something truly hi-end, build the SP14 kit from VTA. The full kit cost is $1099 and they have excellent tech support. The well received Don Sachs preamp, which sells for about $2500 new, is just the ... |