wspohn
Responses from wspohn
| Help wanted: Bass! Your front end looks superb, but the speakers just don't have a lot of bass extension - expect that is the problem.Switch speakers or bite the bullet and add a musical subwoofer (Vandersteen, Hsu etc.) | |
| Should I buy a Class A Amp. Not all Class A amps sound good, but all of the best sounding amps I have owned have been Class A.I still run Classe DR3 VHC (105 lbs each, put out about 800 watts into heat when idling, and will drive anything out there (mine used to drive Apogee... | |
| When and what was your last significant equipment upgrade? Vandersteen 4A to Wilson Maxx 2s. | |
| Lyra Kleos vs Koetsu Urushi No experience with that Lyra (still have an old Clavis in a second system) but run an Urushi in my main system and have never felt the need to look any further! | |
| How to merge home theater with 2 channel I run from pre outs on the HT receiver to an input on my stereo preamp and match levels (requires a microphone and set up program)If your main speakers are of sufficient quality, consider going with a phantom centre channel.This set up allows you ... | |
| Inboard phono stage in a 7k+ integrated, how good versus standalone units? Updating is the key.Many phono stages are excellent at the time they were created but become dated as progress is made in circuit design. Unless your unit has the capability of changing out circuit boards to update, eventually whatever you have w... | |
| Any thoughts on a solid hickory platform under my tt Green wood does damp but still rings. Dry it out ad it gets worse.You want something that doesn't ring and that has mass to block vibration coming up from below.I use 2" thick slabs of Brazilian granite - I used to use a large cement paving stone... | |
| Does anyone run 2 or more turntables... I have two complete operational turntables, a VPI and a Sota Cosmos. I have briefly run them in one system (the preamp,, which no one has probably heard of, a Classe DR7 has two on board phono stages), but now run them in two separate systems. | |
| Curious .. What is the compared price of your tt vs spkrs It's not like there is a directly proportional relationship between price and sound quality. You can have an under-performing front end or speaker and the other end of the chain might be an over-performer that functions at a much higher level tha... | |
| Tube Phono Stage Have I got this right - you don't want a revealing phono stage that tells you when you are listening to crapilly executed recordings, you want a tube phono stage because you think it will conceal those flaws? Or did I somehow read your post incor... | |
| DO I SELL OR DO I KEEP I use a Sonos for casual listening, with music ripped to flac and stored on a server drive, but I feed it in digital form into a DAC for use in my main system. The on board DA conversion in the Sonos is nowhere near as good as a stand alone DAC. | |
| VPI TNT Turntables 1 - the other guys are correct - you'll end up buying a used table with some kind of arm on it2 - the TNT works well with either a linear tracking arm or a pivoted arm ( use the SME V but have listened to the ET) | |
| SVS or Velodyne Try and listen to the Hsu VTF-15H MK2 if you can.Amazingly good and a lot of flexibility. | |
| Any Bluetooth wireless speakers that you like? The new revised Sonos Play 5 are remarkably good. | |
| Jeff Rowland Amplifiers I run a Rowland 5 in my main system and have been quite impressed with it. Excellent sound and built like a battleship. |