rvpiano
Responses from rvpiano
| Can a cheapo set of earbuds sound great? Jond, I’m happy you like them. Enjoy | |
| 12AT7 / 12AU7 With all due respect, in my head to head comparison with the Telefunken and Amperex, the Telefunken was sweeter. YMMD. | |
| For classical music lovers best amp for large orchestral forces? Perhaps it’s the efficiency of my GoldenEar Triton1 speakers that are at play. Its a remarkable amp though. | |
| 12AT7 / 12AU7 I have a vintage re-capped Conrad-Johnson PV 11 preamp along with a Benchmark AB2 Amplifier. I just ordered a matched pair of AU7’s from Brent Jesse for $250 a few minutes ago . | |
| 12AT7 / 12AU7 The Telefunken 12au7’s fit your description very well. ‘On my system they sound better than Amperex. | |
| For classical music lovers best amp for large orchestral forces? I listen to classical music 90% of the time and am a retired classical musician. ‘The amp I use is the Benchmark AHB2. It produces a room filling realistic orchestral sound, yet is greatly detailed. I highly recommend it. | |
| Beware poor sounding media ghdprentice. +1 | |
| Beware poor sounding media One example I can give is a 1964 recording of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring by Herbert Von Karajan. The recorded sound is not horrible, but primitive by today’s standards. It has none of the extreme dynamic range of modern recordings of this piece (... | |
| Beware poor sounding media What a pleasure it is though if you can ignore the inferior sonics and get to the performance! Even with bad recordings, some of the quality of your system can shine through if you let it. | |
| Beware poor sounding media Newbee, I agree. If it’s a historic recording or a great performance, I can suspend my expectations and enjoy. Fortunately as with you, the great majority of tracks sound just fine. | |
| Can a cheapo set of earbuds sound great? 3.5mm plug at the end. I am so impressed by these earbuds, I thought I’d re-post it, in case anyone wanted to give them a try. They’re certainly worth a listen. | |
| Cable curmudgeon Exflute, I’m a classical professional expiano player and believe I have pretty good ears too. I understand you feel recorded music can never equal live music and I agree with that. But, it can come closer than what I believe you think. The better... | |
| Bluesound Node 2i vs Upscale streamers I bought the Node 2 because it was on sale for $100 under than the normal price and wanted to compare it with my Cambridge streamer. I coupled them both with a Benchmark DAC. The Node sounded almost two dimensional compared to the Cambridge to my ... | |
| Need new headphone setup. Soix, Thanks for asking. I love the Audeze with the Dragonfly Cobalt. Maybe not as good as my speaker system but really enjoyable. | |
| A first Even my son, who is a jazz musician, is totally disinterested in the SQ of my system, to my great dismay. Of course, he grew up with my isolating myself in my listening room. That probably has something to do with it. |