travelinjack
Responses from travelinjack
| Supply chain affecting anyone? I am in manufacturing but not hifi. I have been watching things get worse since the beginning of the pandemic. Our normal supplier leads times have gone from 30 days 9 months on some materials. The costs for shipping containers have increased 500%... | |
| Interesting experience with two very different speaker designs I heard some Spatial at a show a few years back. They sounded very nice. | |
| How Do You Learn? Not this forum.Possibly Steve Guttenberg but Stereophile and Absolute Sound are not bad also. The German magazine Stereo is good also but a bit Eurocentric in the gear it covers. | |
| Best Desktop Speakers under $500 OP, I assume you mean powered speakers but please clarify if that assumption is incorrect.I would say the SVS Prime Wireless, Vanatoo Transparent One Encore, Edifier S2000MkIII, Kanto YU6, and Audioengine A5+ (Plus) are the better choices at that ... | |
| 3way replacement for my 2way I like the idea of the Lintons but I have not heard them. I am a recent fan of Focal. I would look at the Focal Chora 826. | |
| Best way to spend $1000 on used bookshelf speakers? Focal Aria and Kanta, Revel Performa, maybe some Monitor Audio Gold. | |
| Integrated amp recommendation for Focal 1038 I enjoy my Focal/Yamaha combo. The current line of top end Yamaha integrated amplifiers appear to be very nice. I have a fondness of Yamaha integrated amps going back more than 30 years. | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard XTC - Dear God | |
| Jazz for aficionados With his recent passing, I had to pull out some Lonnie Smith albums. Good stuff. So smooth. | |
| cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl. Most anything sounds better than vinyl | |
| The Most Digital Recording You Ever Heard Brother's In Arms is the first one that comes to mind as having that distinct digital feel. Donald Fagen's Nightfly is another. I think they both came out about the same time. I would not describe it as bad since it is still better than vinyl b... | |
| How important is the pre-amp? A good pre-amp just like a good DAC should be essentially transparent. A bad pre-amp just like a bad DAC can poison a system. | |
| You own a store, you sell 2 brands, which? Samsung? That gets you all the Harman holdings: Revel, JBL, Mark Levinson, etc. | |
| How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC) I guess I should have expanded a bit on the baggage.The Yiggy has some historical baggage as one of the worst measuring expensive DACs when it was first introduced. That no longer seems to be the case but since it is R2R that makes it somewhat lik... | |
| How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC) I would say abandon the CD player. Rip everything to FLAC or get digital copies online of the albums you want.Do you have an old laptop? If so, use that as your music server. Buy a large external hard drive and fill it with music.The Topping D9... |