sdcampbell
Responses from sdcampbell
| Acoustic Treatments I recently bought several different materials for treating my listening room (which is also my living room) from a marine supply company in Seattle. They have a number of different materials including Sonex, DexDamp, and various thicknesses of fib... | |
| Cables 4 Vandy 3's & preamp 4 Ayre V-3 I own a set of Vandersteen 3A's, and am using my tried and true Kimber Kable 8TC in bi-wired configuration from my Bryston 4B-ST to the speakers. In the price range you mention, I don't think there is a better choice than Kimber 8TC or 4TC (if you... | |
| Integrateds, for $1000.00 If you are willing to buy used equipment, you absolutely should include the Bryston BP-60 on your short list. It has gotten outstanding reviews by a wide variety of audio mags. I have heard the BP-60, and it deserves all the praise it has gotten. ... | |
| TOSLINK DIGITIAL CABLE WITH DAC AND DVD Maybe I'm a "tin ear", but I'm damned if I think the coax is a distinct improvement over TOSlink. I have a DVD player that has both types of outputs, so I can switch from one type to the other. There is a difference in the sound, but I'm not sure ... | |
| Amplifier Suggestions? I owned a set of Vandy 2Ce's until recently, and replaced them with a pair of Vandy 3A's. I used an Adcom 5500 with the Model 2Ce's, and was pleased with. My recent upgrade to the Model 3A's included buying a Bryston 4B-ST, which is a superb match... | |
| Best Preamp For $1200 Used The advice so far is pretty good. At the $1200 range, you have several choices, and two of them are Adcom: 1. Adcom GFP-750 - an outstanding preamp at retail price of $1250, or around $900 used. 2. Adcom GTP-750 pre/pro, which can be gotten used f... | |
| best THREE channel amp for about $1,000 In the price range you stated, I'd go with either the Acurus 100x3 or 200x3, the Adcom 5503, or a Rotel unit. | |
| Best disc on DVD for audio? Three DVD's which have some great music are: 1. Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense 2. Pink Floyd: The Wall 3. David "Honeyboy" Edwards: Shake 'Em On Down (available from Acoustic Sounds). | |
| Why has Netflix gotten greedy? I joined Netflix' Marquee program and am pleased with it. I love the convenience, and don't think $16 a month is unfair, given that I pay that much for my wife and I to go one movie a month. During the summer, when there is nothing but crap on TV,... | |
| Best Male Singers of the 20th Century Now, now, Michael, I deliberately did not place any categories on singers. What floats one person's boat may sink another's. I think you could make a fair disinction between great VOICES and great SINGERS. The best SINGERS are those who have the a... | |
| Mapleshade Recordings I should have mentioned in my first posting that you can order direct from Mapleshade and save quite a bit of money. Mapleshade is currently offering their CD's for $9.60 each if you buy 4 or more in the same order. They do have a Web site as well... | |
| Music Fidelity or Adcom If you have $1000 in your budget for the amp, I'd strongly suggest you buy a "low mileage", used Adcom GFA 5500. It has 200 wpc, and substantially better sound quality than the 5400. I have owned Adcom amps and preamps since the late 1980's, and j... | |
| Mapleshade Recordings I own about 15 of Mapleshade's recordings, including the reggae group (Midnite), several of the blues groups, the folk group led by singer Ben Andrews, and 8 or so jazz groups. As noted above, all are very well recorded and have good to excellent ... | |
| Best Male Singers of the 20th Century Well, since I started this thread I suppose I should participate. Among the "greats" I would include, by category: Opera: Feyodor Chaliapin (Russian basso), Lauritz Melchior, Paul Roberson, Enrico Caruso, Ezio Pinza, Richard Tucker, Jon Vickers, L... | |
| phono pre-amp Given your budget of under $1K, you should definitely look at the Lehmann Audio Black Cube. It lists new for $700 (the "Improved" version with the non-magnetic housing). I've been using the original version between my digital pre/pro and a VPI HW-... |