wspohn
Responses from wspohn
| Is advice from a constant upgrader to be avoided There is a subset of this hobby that suffers from auiophilia nervosa - never satisfied with a current component, always searching for the grail amplifier or speaker. Best not to embark on that journey with them. | |
| Great song to test bass Stanley Clarke, East River Drive is a good bass test CD | |
| If a " system " cannot do this, I move on........ With obvious bass issues, I have to say that many elctrostatic speakers rival or supass many horns systems in realistic sound reproduction. I acknowledge that mating a sufficiently good subwoofer with an eletrostat can be problematic. | |
| Wilson not delivering speakers as scheduled On the other hand, maybe by the time your speakers arrive they will be the upgraded Mk 2 version instead of th originals you ordered..... | |
| Tube Amp, Preamp upgrades -- what did you do that improved your units? Beware making changes in well designed gear. I have seen both John Curl and David Berning deplore such 'improvements, saying that if they had wanted more expensive components in a given circuit they would have put them there - they designed for s... | |
| A Record Collection/Moral Conundrum - What Would You Do? Records? What records? Oh those - I threw them out years ago when you failed to come and get them...... | |
| How do you listen? No layman has much of an idea of just how loudly musical performances are in a given acoustic space. They almost always under or over estimate.I was surprised when I took a sound level meter (there is an inexpensive one called SPL Meter available... | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? Trying to accomplish a really decent sounding system in a limited space like the interior of a car is a mug's game. You can get close for a large amount of money, but why bother?A car is something that you drive home to listen to your sound system... | |
| Combining home theater with two channel I prefer two separate systems. The only commonality between my AV and audio systems are the main speakers,When I want to switch from one to the other, I just take the speaker wires out of one amp and insert them in the other - I have a tube audio... | |
| Solid state amp to go with tube preamp; used ok; budget: $3k max A couple of older solid state amps that sound quite good.Bryston 2BRobertson 4010 | |
| The value of embellishment? Montalban was a paid flack - he took money to mispronounce 'Cordoba' for Chrysler ads and touted 'fine Corinthian leather' which didn't in fact exist.Hmm - I wonder if VPI uses Corinthian leather because it sounds better.....But hey - it opens the... | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? Don't ignore the Hagerman Piccolo 2 head amp. Dead quiet and cheap at around $300. Replaced a transformer in one system that was hard to keep from humming. | |
| Is bass the most important frequency band? While I agree that low bass is hard to arrange, and it can muck up your sound if less than well integrated, I disagree that it is absolutely necessary for good sound.In fact I think that a system that rolls off early may be preferable to one that ... | |
| Turntable Decision I have owned two out of three of the tables mentioned and would agree that Sota would be the best choice.I still use a first generation Cosmos in my second system! | |
| thought on eBay? The larger purchases I have made in the audio area were all done on audio boards where feedback relates solely to audio gear, not to someone in Singapore pumping hundreds of $1 items through and giving themselves glowing feedback under fictitious... |