vitussl101
Responses from vitussl101
| McIntosh to Luxman? Detail, imaging, impact. McIntosh is rather dull and generic sounding. When you first hear it, you think, a nice and safe sound. But then you compare it to other gear, and right away you hear its limitations. | |
| Why are People Dumping their Audio Research Gear and What Does it Say about them? How do you know that people are dumping their gear? | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... I think that most people who see performances in Concert / Symphony Halls will disagree with you on the front row seat as the best seat in the hall. Be it clamshell like here in Chicago or shoe box (I prefer), like Boston, surprisingly up in the ... | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? Not so surprisingly a lot of businesses fail because they didn't do basic homework on the cost of doing business like say opening a restaurant and not figuring out things like how much money I have to make just to cover all the costs at the end of... | |
| What is the proper loudness for listening? There is no one volume. Brian Eno made recordings where he prefers the volume level to drop off completely. Then there's Kuma's Corner, a bar in the Avondale neighborhood in Chicago where the proper volume is ear bleeding, brain damaging loud.... | |
| what are your top "audio bargins" in your system history? I paid a dollar for about as mint as it gets of Beethoven's nine symphonies, Karajan/ Berlin on a tulip bordered Deutsche Grammophon box set, most sides not even a pop on them. $40.00 for an unopened box set of the 58-65 Solti / Vienna Wagner Rin... | |
| Beatles vs. Stones Well, I have like twenty-plus Stones Lp's and two Beatles. | |
| WHEN DID YOU FINALLY STOP... I'll never give up the good fight! | |
| going from tube preamp to solid state So let me get this straight; you like the sound of your preamp but not the tubes in it? How do questions like this get past the moderator? All I'll say is that if you listen to records through a low (0.2 mV or lower) output cartridge, odds are a... | |
| Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align All I'm going to say is that people like you are the reason audiophiles get stereotyped as being all about the equipment. Stop purchasing audiophile rated music and buy what you like. You're saying that you can't do that? Sheesh! | |
| Confession: I only like Norah Jones because so many others told me to Every time I have listened to her I usually turn to something else. I don’t hate her, I just dislike that lilting voice. It all sounds the same to me. I think of artists like Andrea Bocelli, for people who don’t know or don’t really listen to oper... | |
| Electra Tube Connectors and GR Research Speaker Update Kits Thanks for the responses but after looking long and hard at the mods, I'm definitely not doing the Tube connectors or the No Rez. Updating the caps, and resistors and not altering the speaker's response in any way. I have three or four different... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? If anyone asks that is not into this hobby, I tell them that this or that is the least expensive or affordable product in their lineup which is true. | |
| And while I'm asking, has anyone modified Sony ss-cs5 speakers with a GR Research kit? Yes but Gr doesn’t replace the drivers. Have you seen these speakers? I have designed and built speakers, I even rebuilt a pair of Sonys. They were smallish with reasonable cabinets and that was about it. I had on hand about 99% of everything I n... | |
| ATC 19's modified using Gr Research kit I spoke to the American distributor of ATC, Lone Mountain Audio in Vegas the other day about mods to the speaker, hoping someone else had called them about it, and to my surprise, no one else had. They did not know what I was talking about which ... |