schubert
Responses from schubert
| If you won the power ball tomorrow night would you Keep what I have and give all but 500K to Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders 50/50 . | |
| Speakers that will bring me down to me knees crying with joy ps , I hear you and have been there and done that but try this,Stop your car and open the door next time you're carried away and you get an idea the closed space is what makes that 2 bucks a pop car speaker sound so good . | |
| Jazz for aficionados Having been there in the 40's and 50's Jazz musicians were assumed to be drug addicts by the general populace of the USA .Easy pickings for cops and DA's looking for an slam-dunk collar and conviction around election time .Many pleaded because at... | |
| Recommendations please for good, affordable pre-amp for system? I talked to engineer at Bryston and he said BP-6 thru- 20 series pre's were all basically the same . | |
| What's the greatest bargain in audio racks these days? Buy a Salamander 5.0 and put everything on 2-4 " un-finished maple slabs .Paint front edge black and your problems are over . | |
| Why I prefer gear that is made domestically I hear you bdp24.I ’m not an AVA kool-aid drinker but AVA is most bang for the buck made in USA .If I win the lottery my new dedicated listing room will sport a T+A system driving Anavantgarde DUO’s .The new AVA phono stage is a real deal at $ 500... | |
| The Distortion of Sound Us Classical Buyers can but the Swedish BIS offerings which are musically superior and have as much dynamic range as the media can have .The Hyperion label has good dynamics as well.I never did understand why pop music fans need more than a good b... | |
| Suspensions on turntable...really effective? Only ones I ever heard that really made a difference were magnetic suspension , And I 've owned four Thorens and a Linn LP-12 . | |
| Why I prefer gear that is made domestically Considering AR is MUCH more expensive I should think so.AVA works for me . | |
| How many use Vintage Hi-Fi systems? Back in the 70's the KLH 17 was the go-to speaker for poor students of classical music as well.On classical beat out the EPI,AR, Advent ,Dynaco etc in their general price range | |
| Why I prefer gear that is made domestically I bought a Van Alstine Synergy 450 amp because it sounds like a big modern tube amp and is far better than the Odyssey amp I was using,at least on the classical music I listen to.The fact I live 15 minutes from his place played a role too.I took i... | |
| Footers under big heavy speakers (Stillpoints Ultra 5, Sistrum rack, Finite Elements,..?) Cement floor couple may be good for rock but energy that goes down in cement also comes back , a disaster for symphonic strings .Herbies composite threaded footers solved all my problems on a 3 foot deep cement floor . | |
| Hearing loss and audio reviewers ? READ ON I'm older than oregonpapa and I still feel like my hearing is good as ever so screw any test . You hear more with your brain than your ears anyway. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Big difference between bombastic and virtuosic. | |
| Remind me again why... + 1 with nonoise, esp. if you live in a big city, +2 if near (3/4 mile) major transmission lines ! |