tom_nice
Responses from tom_nice
| Good entry level transport? Are you planning on getting one used? In my own experience, PS Audio Lamda was overrated in its time, Audio Alchemy DDS Pro is underrated, and maybe cheap now after the collapse of the company. It has Pioneer's "stable platter", which calls for pu... | |
| Best Speaker Cable for Lamm 1.1's Amps I recommend that you contact the designer of Stealth cables for a recommendation: stnemo@starpower.net. I know him, so if that destroys my objectivity in your mind, feel free to ignore this advice. But with a 30-day money-back guarantee, you're no... | |
| Acoustic panels I'd suggest reading "Sound Studio Construction on a Budget" by F. Alton Everest. He covers domestic listening rooms too and this book came 10 years after his "Master Handbook of Acoustics", and has info on newer products--RPG, especially. You can ... | |
| OTL amps I'm using Atma-Sphere M60 II monoblocks with Quad ESL 63's, and need only half the output tubes in a medium-size room. Sound is much improved over a Pass Aleph 3, not too shabby itself. For info on your speakers, why not contact the Atma-Sphere de... | |
| New (used) pre-amp with phono I have a CAT SL1 III with phono for sale, but it's special, since I had the factory simplify its signal path, cutting out the Balance, Tape Monitor and one Input switches. It handles one line level source and phono, and has a lot less solder joint... | |
| Speaker Cable Length - Effect on Sound I went from 7' to 18" in the same cable, Stealth Ultimate Ribbon. This is high enough gauge for 7', no obvious problem there. But I was brought MUCH closer to the music with the 18" cables. Unfortunately, this short a length calls for monoblock po... | |
| Supplies for cable building Trelja, let's communicate about this. The short answer is Yes. Please contact nicetom@sonic.net. (Let me add that the "nice" in that address and in my Audiogon name isn't the self-flattery it appears to be, but rather my wife's first name.) | |
| Supplies for cable building I hope you won't repeat my mistake and buy wire as thick as 22 gauge, or even 24 2 or 25 gauge, no matter how pure, no matter how cheap. It just won't made a good cable, by today's standards. I have hundreds of feet of high quality, as measured by... | |
| Phono Pre with volume control? I'm building my own, around an AHT DM-P, which offers 66 db of gain, enough for no line stage of amplification in my system (and surely in almost all systems). If you want advice on building a world-class ladder type stepped attenuator, just post ... | |
| Advise on preamps. I've never heard Audible Illusions, but someone in the audio industry whom I trust spent a weekend comparing the Modulus 3 with the Anthem Pre-1, and thought the Pre-1 was best in every respect. His opinion, not mine, but since Anthem Pre-1's (eit... | |
| Length- Speaker wire/interconnect ?s I forgot to say one thing: I'm also using a CD player straight into the 9' interconnects, with no problem. And another thing: shielding isn't the ONLY reason, surely, for having short speaker cables with long interconnects. | |
| Length- Speaker wire/interconnect ?s I'm not surprised by the previous two responses, as this is pretty general knowledge. All I can add is that I'm having no trouble at all with 9' interconnects--not really long but not really short either--used with a passive preamp. Do you have mo... | |
| Building my own roomlens Gthirteen, sorry, now I realize you DID get in touch with me. I look forward to hearing from you again. Meanwhile, if any Argent Room Lens owner wants to be magnanimous, and nobly help the Deserving Poor in the audiophile community, a couple of de... | |
| Building my own roomlens Ghirteen, I haven't heard from you yet with your email address. My text on a Room Lens clone is much too long to post here--I'd get timed out typing. But I'll email it if I get an address, to you or anyone else who wants it. I'll keep checking thi... | |
| Analog or Digital volume Is it a series or a ladder stepped attenuator? With a series, the signal goes through a lot of resistors and solder joints. I'm selling a CAT SL 1 III mostly because it uses a series stepped attenuator (as does the Cat Ultimate) and sounds much le... |