t_bone
Responses from t_bone
| Preamp Deal of the Century Gentlemen,After following this thread for a long time, I must admit to being intrigued. 1) Does anyone have a headphone jack already or is Jpms the first to order it? If you have it, how do you find it? If not, are there technical difficulties to ... | |
| Acapella ion tweeters Thanks to all for quick feedback/answers, especially to the "mysterious" :~) Detlof. I have never heard anything but superlatives used to describe the tweeters (and for that matter the speakers they are usually housed in). Greg: I am with you Greg... | |
| How much does your system retail for? Retail: 3.07 million Actually paid: 1.15 millionDoes that drop anyone's jaws? Damn well it should - it's in Japanese yen. Perhaps a more appropriate measure is that the system "retailed" for the equivalent of about 125 hotels on Boardwalk (cost me... | |
| Ever wonder why things are screwed up? Just for fun (and this one's real)... when you travel by rail from China to Mongolia, at the Mongolian border there is a "brief" stop of several hours. Why? They run the train into a warehouse, jack the cars up several feet, roll the trucks out, r... | |
| What percentage do you spend on each component? As with everyone else, things just kinda happened this way: Actual 'Won-The-Lottery' Wishlist?Amps: 42% (used) 17% (same amps)PassivePre: 8% (used) 16%CD/SACD: 16% (demo) 16% (same w/ mods)Speakers: 19% (used) 31%Wire/Rack: 15% (usd/new) 21%Total ... | |
| Where does your user name come from? Swampwalker, let me guess... with a name like that, you must be a wetlands/soil scientist (self-employed), making your living digging holes and tying little flags on trees. Did I guess right?!As for mine, someone had already taken my name and give... | |
| Why the lack of interest in Accuphase? Badwisdom... My take on the Accuphase problem was USD/JPY and direction-specific. Japanese buyers of US or European products should actually benefit from the forex forward (though not from volatility, company risk, etc). For trade between the UK/U... | |
| Why the lack of interest in Accuphase? Disclaimer: I am not in the distribution business (I do finance) and have no relationship of any kind to any importer/exporter, dealership, or audio equipment maker other than the fact that I have bought used audio equipment in the past from a dea... | |
| Best looking / worst looking amps & preamps The ugliest amps and pre-amps I've ever seen have to be those made by Linear Technology. Baby-poop brown glossy plastic faceplates, cheap-radio-style brown plastic knobs (or somestimes large aluminum knobs), and glossy bright yellow plastic sidepl... | |
| Triangle kits? Anybody speak french? I'd never bothered to try the babelfish site on altavista (http://babelfish.altavista.com/) to see how it did on something I could translate myself. The translation is long enough to suggest you try it yourself. The translation is somewhat hackney... | |
| Marantz SA-12 I am scared... Mikez, I know of the SA-12S1 and the SA-14. I assume you mean the SA-12S1. With that in mind, I offer the following: I tested the SA-14 for almost 2 wks at home vs. the Meridian 588 & Sony SCD-777ES about 9mos ago (vs. the Wadia 861, a Cary, a... | |
| What is the most powerful SET tube amplifier? The Cary monoblocks noted 'informally' above are at http://www.caryaudio.com/cad1610se.html | |
| Anyone heard Ashkenazy SACDs? Thanks Jdh9, I will check them out... I got Ashkenazy SACD of Richard Strauss' Don Quixote with Mischa Maisky on violoncello and quite like it. Any other suggestions out there? | |
| Very Basic Tube/SS Pre-AMP/AMP Question Another fellow Tokyoite... I have tube monoblocks and when I bought them, I tried all the combinations (all tubes, all SS, and both other combos) and ended up going with a tube amp with passive pre. I highly recommend putting tubes somewhere in th... | |
| Pre-amp Suggestions for Tubes & Electrostats Jtinn & Tireguy; Thanks, I hadn’t thought about that possible solution. Someone mentioned in another thread that Audio Aero is coming out with a CD/SACD/DVD-A player called the Prestige. Will the Prestige have the same 24/192 redbook capabilit... |