wspohn
Responses from wspohn
| Need help picking my first tube amp Shop for used Quicksilver or similar. | |
| How many turntables have you owned? Let's see. Pioneer (PL0112 IIRC) Systemdek IIX Oracle Delphi 2 Linn LP12 VPI TNT V Sota Cosmos Roksan Radius 5 Over 40 years (last three still owned) | |
| Advice needed on MC cartridges I've listened to the Hana quite a bit in a friend's system and that is a good suggestion. I recently picked up a third turntable and part of the package was a MC pickup - a Goldring Eroica LX (low output) that I had planned to swap out for someth... | |
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? With more money spent on speakers you should get better more rigid enclosures, higher priced more accurate drivers and usually (but sadly not always) a well though out design. You will gain clarity in the top range and control in the bottom end, ... | |
| Is High End Audio catchin' up with you all? The Hayabusa is a very expensive very neat engine, but there are many lesser modern engines that work well in street cars. My daily driver has a 2.0 4 cylinder The sound they make isn't as nice, but it puts out 375 bhp and 375 Tq and gets 30 mpg ... | |
| Is High End Audio catchin' up with you all? It is actually a 1956 MGA under the skin with a GM V6 I transplanted into it and a body by Fiberfab called a Jamaican made in the 1960s.. It is another hobby of mine. | |
| Is High End Audio catchin' up with you all? Well this thread took an unlikely turn - didn't expect to see cars as a subject of discussion. Best sound comes from a V12 (I miss my old Lamborghini!), next best from a straight six (sold my MGC but still have a BMW Z4MC), and after that maybe t... | |
| What are some of your favorite "COLD" songs? Cold Shot | |
| 30 to 50 watts seems to be all I desire I drive really low efficiency speakers (86 dB electrostatics) with 45 watts (big Class A watts, but only a max of 45 of them) with no need for any more. | |
| Do we really know what "Live" music sounds like? The majority of my attendance at concerts is to classical or folk, all acoustic. The question as to the younger set is well framed though - I wonder how many attend non electrified concerts. | |
| Amp will not power off Yeah - I had an old Belles amp that had a power surge on turn on that would weld the switch contacts together after awhile. I sidestepped the problem by using a heavy duty power strip - if it ever did the contacts in that in I could just replace ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Lionel Rogg, Art of the Fugue on Angel. Exquisite! | |
| CDP or Transport and DAC? Recomendations? Don’t bother with a transport, just rip all your CDs on your computer and transfer the files to a couple of redundant network attached hard drives. Put the extra money (if any) into a better DAC. | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... I immediately thought "play a record or two to see how far you still have to go...' | |
| How much gear do you own? I have, and listen to, four systems raging from very simple to quite complex. I had issues with getting rid of gear I have enjoyed for a long time and tend to reconfigure it into a secondary (tertiary etc....) system both for a change in listenin... |