stringreen
Responses from stringreen
| MBL omnidirectional speakers. How do they sound ? They have always elicited the "WOW" factor..... For ME, they sound nothing like real music... They have all the "stuff", but much too much of all of it....cartoonish.... | |
| Regal salon 2 vs vandersteen 5a carbon I have a pair of 5A's ...drive them with Ayre......wonderful. I have the Kawazinga upgraded finish....gorgeous. I had people in the house who are pro furniture makers and were very impressed with the perfection of the construction of the speakers | |
| TurnTable Quest Anything with a VPI logo.... | |
| VPI Classic 1. Defective or design flaw Trytone.....I suggested the cheater to find where the ground loupe is. Try it on the turntable first (I doubt it will help there)..... also try it on your other black boxes until you find the culprit. In my system (Ayre amp, preamp, Universal silv... | |
| Tube for a Noob ??? Modern tubes and modern solid state seem to be merging in timber. ...there are more similarities than differences. | |
| Reliabilty, Keeping Equipment Powered on or off? That Krell worries me....why don't you just call Dan in Cave Creek, Arizona and ask him. Its probably pure class A, but still.....heat is a destroyer. | |
| VPI Classic 1. Defective or design flaw I would try using a "cheater" adapter (easily bought at Home Depot for less than a dollar, which would allow you to turn the plug 180 degrees and/or even eliminating the ground lug. You will find the offending circuit....just patiently experiment... | |
| New dedicated line & outlets sound worse, not better- HELP! Porter Ports are pretty good....I changed mine to Maestro, and found an improvement....but this is never ending. | |
| Ortofon Red on Thorens TP16 tonearm Sunnyjim.....The Ortofon Black is even better....the Ortofon Windield, better still, etc., etc. | |
| Upgrade Opinions, Thorens vs VPI Stewart07.....The VPI mod will be available for the 3D arm with the use of an attachment to the arm, so you can just send away for it to modify your own. To be truthful, I have a 3D and couldn't care less about the wiggle when not in the groove..... | |
| Recommendation Why isn't an Ayre preamp under your consideration? You can't do better. | |
| The most transparent speaker cable I'm also a ClearDay fan. ....and Paul will send an audition pair free for evaluation. Why anyone doesn't play with this offer is stunning. | |
| are digital recordings on vinyl any better than CD The digital Mahler 4th by Bernstein is one of my best sounding records. Its a stunner...the performance is also supurb | |
| Need Help From The Resident Experts ...another reason to get the amp and preamp from the same manufacturer | |
| Shorten my speaker cables? Send them back to the manufactuerer for retermination....or check out ClearDay cables....they will send you a trial sample to see if it works and won't even charge you for the fun. If that doesn't work, then reterminate them. |