swampwalker
Responses from swampwalker
| APL NWO2.5 ? Auidosu- I think the issue is lack of a phono stage in the APL; analog is a ref to analog source i.e., turntable. | |
| Bridged amp with electrostatics.. I think that there is a confusion of semantics here. Carlos is, I think, talking about bridging a stereo amp to provide more power for a single channel. Some amps are delivered from the factory with a switch to allow "bridging". I am showing my ig... | |
| Learning the lingo Guide to High End Audio (or close approx.) by Robert Hartley. | |
| Will superior earphones matter with my Nano Hi Warren- IMO, the answer is yes you will hear the diff (I did with Ety 6s) but I would not go to far up the line, esp. if you use the Nano as portable, travel type music or background at work. If you go to a high res earphone, you will be able t... | |
| What headphone amp to buy-Sennheiser HD 600? Md- Please forward the final sentence of your post to my wife ;~) Glad that Yamasinc was able to hook you up. | |
| best or craziest speakers' design.. Electronluv it is, IMO. Jeffrey hit it right btwn the eyes. | |
| Putting MM cart through MC phono stage There are differences in cart loading and capacitance; usually fixed for MM and variable for MC, but you heard the biggest issue, increased noise due to more gain. | |
| Supratek Cortese--avoiding microphonic tubes You can get a microphonic tube from any manufacturer. With the cost of NOS tubes, you should ask for and receive return privileges for microphonic or noisy tubes. And yes you will be much more prone to this kind of problem with a very high gain un... | |
| Subwoofer connection to older tube amp Unless you have an extra set of line-outs from your pre-amp. Then you can run RCA or XLR cables from the extra main/line outs from the pre to the line in on the sub. | |
| Is an IPOD hi-fi? Biggest variable is how he ripped and stored the music. If it was MP-3 files and he can't hear the diff, then its 2 and/or 3. If he is playing lossless files then might be pretty good, although still could not rule out 2 and/or 3. AS far as 4 goes... | |
| tonearm match ZYX Universe Moerch and Triplanar I think that Raul makes a very good point. But of course, this may be part of a long range project that is "starting at the source" and working downstream. | |
| Monitor VS Floor Standing Speaker? Monitors typically trade off ultimate low freq extension for smaller size, lower price and better imaging. Monitors are usually easier to integrate into a small room, but may not be best if you really want to rock or listen to a lot of music with ... | |
| Value of Sennheiser Orpheus headphone system? you should be able to get a pretty fair consensus over at head-fi.org. | |
| Can i use a PC as a preamp? Yes you should be able to do that, but you won't get anywhere near the sound they are capable of. Of course, w/MP3s as a source, that may not matter. | |
| Boxing and shipping BIG speakers? Whats best? I agree with Nsgarch as to crating and palleting. BAX Global is very good on big heavy items but you have to have a business to use them, or they will hit you with a heavy residential pick up charge. I will say that if you use UPS Store for cratin... |