stevecham
Responses from stevecham
| Is Hi-fi getting more expensive? $3500 for a Meridian 508.24 player in 1997 and $1500 for a new top line Cambridge Audio player in 2009 that sounds better and has more features and better specs.Seems more value added over the years. | |
| Pandora vs. Pandora One. Any audible difference? Just upgraded to Pandora One; an audible difference! | |
| Cambridge 840C as a DAC Magfan: I have not had that experience. I wonder about that TOSLINK cable though... | |
| Matched Tubes - Is there really a big difference?? Unless you can individually bias each power tube, matched sets will improve the overall sound simply because the tubes will be drawing similar current. | |
| Music Hall MMF-7 Yes and there are two nuts on the arm. Make sure you have the correct size allen key and be very careful about loosening. It can be done. I had to reset the VTA (not VTF) when I installed a Lyra Argo i. | |
| Cambridge 840C as a DAC I use my 840C's DACs with a Squeezebox Classic and this is a huge improvement over the internal SB DAC. And because I use a wireless router at home I can listen to lossless uploaded CDs via iTunes through the SB into the 840C. This is an exception... | |
| Does your system do things better in the dark? When we remove ambient/artificial light from the listening experience, it is not surprising at all that the ears get more brain bandwidth via less visual distraction and hence the perceived quality of our systems and music software improves. | |
| Krell EVO-1, FPB-750MCX or EVO-900 Agree with Hifi: stick with the FPB 750mcx monos. | |
| Guitarist for Janis Joplin's Big Brother band dies James Gurley was on my first real rock record I bought as a kid in '69 - Cheap Thrills. I played that one to total destruction. May he pass and rest in peace and join that ever growing band of musical giants in the sky. | |
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| Who has the oldest bottle of Stylast? Anyone see sea monkeys swimming around in there? | |
| Amp for Thiel CS6 Droz, I understand your goal with the CS6s being increased bass control. These speakers are fully capable of very deep and dynamic bass response but they need to be fully controlled by an amp that can act as an unfazed current source down into the... | |
| Thinking About a New CD Player I upgraded my 1997 Meridian 508.24 to a Cambridge Audio 840c player 6 months ago and I couldn't be happier. I did audition a $6500 Mark Levinson player and it was marginally better than the Cambridge, but the additional $$ didn't justify the price... | |
| Amp for Thiel CS6 I spoke to Jim and to Sheri (their tech support person at the time) back around 2003 and both explained that they used several amps during the design process for their speakers. For the CS6, Rowland, Krell, Levinson and Pass amps, ammog others, we... | |
| Thiel 2.4 with NAD integrateds Somewhat depends on your expectations of the 2.4s. I had good results with a 45 wpc CJ CAV50 tube integrated but now I am getting excellent results powering them with a 185 wpc CJ CA200 solid state integrated. The extra current extracts more conte... |