sc53
Responses from sc53
| You’re An Independent Dealer, Which Companies And What Products Would You Represent? These are brands that I listened to and purchased over the last 4 decades from smaller brick-and-mortar audio shops in my area—I wish they were all still around: Ansuz, Analysis Plus, Ayre, Audio Physic, Audio Research, ATC, BAT, Cardas, Magnepan... | |
| Music that has a hold of me beyond understanding To bring things way down back to earth a bit—for me the Be Good Tanya’s and the Wailin Jennies do this. Every plucked banjo string, every accordion squeeze, every blended voice just take hold of my heart and rivet my thoughts. | |
| Building a 100 album vinyl collection 3 must have albums are? Robert Plant and Allison Kraus - Raising Sand Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue Sonny Rollins - Way Out West | |
| LOUDEST Concert and Tinnitus I’ve had tinnitus for at least 40 yrs—first noticed it hiking in the desert Southwest in 1986 and I was in a dead silent box canyon hearing the most astounding loud ringing in my ears! Mine was caused by blasting music in my parents’ and then my o... | |
| LP Cleaning Services Like others, I’d be happy to clean a few records for you in my Degritter. But shipping them back and forth between Chicago and DC metro area would be expensive these days. | |
| After fifty years… amazing. What high end audio can be. Re affordable gear for the yout’ we elders run into—I was with one of my nieces over Christmas and she bought 3 albums at a sale at the library and asked me about some $400 TT-speaker all in one setup she saw at Crutchfield. I recommended she get ... | |
| After fifty years… amazing. What high end audio can be. Let me join the crowd born in 1953 to say—happy 70th to all of us and many more years of happy listening! I too have spent years and $$$ to get to the system I have today and like GHDPrentice I don’t regret all the effort to arrive here. Now let’s... | |
| Bad Cornwall IV? I have Klipsch Heresy IVs bought new from Upscale a year or so ago and the binding posts are picky!! I had no sound from one speaker, blamed my amp, fiddled and futzed and discovered it was the spade speaker connectors. Switched to bananas via tho... | |
| For Vandersteen owners & lovers: Which other brands do you like? I’m a fan of the Vandersteen sound as well. I like them with ARC or Ayre amps. I spent years with B&W culminating in the 801 Matrix series 3, then on to Genesis 500 and ProAc Response floorstanders, then auditioned Vandy Treos and Quattros but... | |
| $1000 (used ok) Streamer Dac recommendation please Auralic Altair is wonderful and used can be had for $600-700. I have two! | |
| What were the radio stations of your youth that helped you on your music/audio journey? KUNM in Albuquerque—my cousin Paul was the station manager in the mid to late 70s, and he had really eclectic tastes. | |
| Integrated amp suggestions. The Ayre integrated—AX5-Twenty—is the best I’ve heard with many different speakers. I ended up with the VX-5 Twenty and kept my tube preamp but that integrated sounded so special with my Audio Physic speakers. | |
| Can anyone recommend a good streamer/DAC? Yes. Auralic Altair new or used. It works with Roon or you can you its own Lightning software. | |
| New Turntable Direction I have had my Linn for 25+ yrs and have done many of the upgrades including the Keel. Last year when I retired I bought a VPI Classic Signature on a sale from Upscale Audio—just to hear something different. I still have my Linn and I often A/B the... | |
| Most organic / real / analogue sounding DAC (ideally with Volume Control) for $1500?????? Ayre Codex or QB-9 used. Nothing harsh or lean about these. Aqua LaVoce also fantastic but $3000+ |