sokogear
Responses from sokogear
| Concerning high end audio names in new cars I wonder how much the higher end names are even involved with the car audio systems design and manufacturing. I bet many of them are simply putting their name on a ordinary system manufactured by a no name or non premium reputation manufacturer. ... | |
| Ridiculous sale If the market is $4500 and sales are happening in a typical orderly fashion between evenly motivated parties, that is called a market. If the market for the amp is $4500, then Decware is leaving money on the table by selling their product below ma... | |
| Boy, Oh Boy! Towshend! Townshend and vibration control in general, and the Townshend seismic platform made a huge improvement for me under my turntable and I have treated my speakers with Symposium platforms because they are more stable since my speakers are tall and t... | |
| Buyer Beware Technically a check never "clears". Banks settle with each other, but checks can be returned any time if they don't get the funds from the payers account. A certified or cashiers check has funds already removed from someone's account. so they are ... | |
| How important is spending time with your gear? I like simplicity and minimalism. Other than a wall mounted TT that can't be hidden of course, nothing to look at on my 4 rectangular boxes at all except a volume knob and input and record selector knobs that never get touched and a couple push bu... | |
| Turntable noobie...what advice do you have? +1 @mijostyn For experimentation I took a few of my older audiophile records to my dealer who recommended a record cleaning machine and we tested them on a system about at the level of mine to see if cleaning actually made them sound better. I han... | |
| Most Realistic Recordings The UDs killed a lot of trees (damn spell check). | |
| Most Realistic Recordings If you are talking vinyl, the pressing quality and process matters of course, but the truly great sounding records were expertly engineered and then care and quality were taken in the pressing process. I recently tried a couple of the MFSL Ultra ... | |
| Pigskin or jico leather mat Lew - it makes sense to me, moreso with the Rega philosophy of light plinths and arms, not so much with the heavy platters and clamps, etc., as long as the table is isolated well (mine is on top of a Townshend platform that sits on a wall mounted ... | |
| Pigskin or jico leather mat Wouldn't you want the mat to isolate the record from the turntable motor and bearing noise? I have a Hexmat eclipse mat (admittedly on the expensive side) but it only touches the record with about 1 square millimeter total area from 13 tiny nubs e... | |
| You know you have audiophile system when... Audiophiledom is a club. As Groucho Marx said, I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. Nobody want to be called an audiophile. Go into any record store that sells used records - the owners have one word audiophilenut. They don't ... | |
| Why Do You Post? I like to learn different points of view and new things. I can share my experience of what's worked for me and also met some new friends. Picked up lots of info on benefits of phono stages, importance of speaker placement and room acoustics and is... | |
| everything sounded great until the upgrade No need to ever turn the amp off unless you are plugging or unplugging cables. Just make sure you turn down the volume when you turn your source on or off. Eliminates warm up time and sounds even better after beiding played for a little while. | |
| Is a separate phono pre really necessary? +1 @beatlebum Had a perfectly good phono stage on my Plinius integrated that was adjustable from MM to MC, but when I went to the Sutherland Insight (and then added the LPS after getting a nice deal on a used one) the improvement was immediate and... | |
| Dust cover up or down? If the manufacturer provides a hinged dust cover, they must be saying down when playing. A non-hinged one or one like my Rega P8 is saying off when playing but on when not to keep dust off. Some like the big ones over everything not hinged to be o... |