timo
Responses from timo
| Cartridge cleaning The Zerodust cleaner is an EXCELLENT cleaning product if you are afraid/skeptical in using a liquid based product. | |
| Is heavy vinyl worth it? Heavy vinylAdvantages: usually surface noise is less, less warpage, sometimes they are mastered from the original source tapes as opposed to 2nd or 3rd generation copies.Longevity: usually higher quality vinyl that is longer lasting providing you ... | |
| What was your first system, & did you like it? A Sansui 661 stereo receiver, Dual 1225 belt-drive turntable w/Shure cartridge, Sansui cassette deck, Matrix speakers. Yes, it gave me great satisfaction in its day. | |
| Looking for suggestions on reasonable upgrades IMO, you should consider dumping the old Monster Cable speaker cable and get something that is newer and not oxidized. Old Monster Cable is very dark and cloudy sounding. | |
| What amplifiers should I consider ? Look at a used Ayre V-3 power amp. Very strong and musical. I have three of these beauties. There is one for sale here on Agon. Not mine, however. | |
| Coolest color for Wilson Watt/Puppy 7 ? Ferrari red, of course! | |
| pros and cons to running bare wire Pro: One less connection.Con: bare wire can oxidize and create a poor connection. | |
| Which SS amps sound like a tube amp? Ayre V-3 200 watts/ch into 4 ohms | |
| speaker cable and IC's to dim brightness in system Yes. Discovery Signature ICs and speaker cables. Will tame brightness yet remain balanced throughout the musical range. | |
| HELP with speaker selection. Trying to keep up with the Jone's, are we? | |
| Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique; recommendations.... If memory serves, Chesky Records produced a 180 gram LP of this work. | |
| How can multiple woofers generate lower frequency? They don't. Multiple woofers just move more air, thus sound more powerful with the illusion of deeper bass. | |
| Freqency response Pbb: I think your upper end of 12KHz is a bit low for the average male. I am 42 and have upper end acuity of 17KHz. | |
| A Car Stereo Question Forget it! Buy after-market car audio and have it professionaly installed. There is no factory car audio that is worth the hole it came out of. | |
| How international is your system? USA, Canada, Japan |