spencem
Responses from spencem
| So you have a great hi end stereo preamp, but Millercarbon re: "The great writer Harlan Ellison, speaking of Joan Collins, said, "Her mind is a vast barren plain, across which winds play, endlessly." She was good in his episode of Star Trek tho’ | |
| The secret to a great amplifier... I don't know everything about electronics, or what sounds good to each individual, but...Isn't a fuse supposed to protect more expensive parts of a circuit? So, has anyone actually tested this orange wonder to see if it blows at the correct curren... | |
| If you could, what live performances would you enjoy re-living? To live over: any of the performances of the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Seiji Ozawa that I heard as a poor, starving student.To NEVER live over again: any of the performances (but especially of Mozart) of the San Francisco Symphony conduc... | |
| Tweaks you got rid of because they were not effective (enough)? From most of this discussion I gather that for many here a tweak is something other than source, control, amplification, speakers, and connecting wires. A second component of this discussion relates to ability to hear a difference which becomes th... | |
| Try to train them...again, or simply shoot them? Add tools to the list of things not loaned. | |
| Frustrated McIntosh Owner I have owned McIntosh amps, CD players, server, oscilloscope, preamps, and AV controllers, all without trouble, so I had not had an opportunity to "test" their service department. However, I had a much better recent experience with McIntosh. I pur... | |
| What do/did you do for a living? Retired 11 years now, but when working I bought and sold drugs!(pharmacist) | |
| What made you select "audio" as your hobby I walked into biology lab at age 14 as a high school freshman and the teacher had classical music playing on a mono system and I was a dead duck. That was 64 years ago and I'm still hooked. | |
| McIntosh MR78 upgrades? I guess I'm getting into this conversation late. Just sending my MR-78 in for the Modafferi mod. Got his office unit from our kids pediatrician 20 years ago when he retired; he kept the MR-80 he had at home. It has served well, but the quarantine ... |