wspohn
Responses from wspohn
| How serious are you? "Serious" seems to equate for some with how often you change gear. I've been doing this for the last 40 years and once you reach a certain point and your main system is making you happy, you seldom want to continue the obsessive upgrade thing. T... | |
| If the DAC is the same, how different do CD transports sound? My CD 'player' is a network drive where I keep my digital music. Will we have to start doing comparison A/B tests with different brands of hard drives? Has anyone actually done that? | |
| Ruminations On CD Players I still own an Arcam Delta 70 they were very good players. Not using it now (I only have one of my 3 systems with a CD player, an Emotiva, but rarely use it since I ripped my entire CD library (thousands of them!) and boxed them up) Consider stre... | |
| "Can You Lift Yours?" I use twin mono amps in one system that weigh in at over 100 lbs. and a single stereo amp in another system that is just under 150 lbs. but all that sounds light compared to some of you! | |
| Speaker that are 'KEEPERS" for the long haul!!! I tend not to sell gear I have enjoyed (and thus have 3 separate systems made up of previous favourites). My keep forever speakers are Wilson Maxx 2, but one of my systems in another room uses Martin Logan CLS and I'd not give those up either as t... | |
| Solid State Phono Stages I use three different phono stages in my systems, two solid state and one tube. We did a shoot out on my main system recently - my Vendetta SCP2-D against a Herron that had been updated to Herron VTPH-2. Signal came from a Koetsu Urushi/SME V/ V... | |
| Need advice on what to purchase to hold 1TB of music and connect to my new Innuos Pulsar. I use a 2 bay Synology NAS disc station (you want to run a pair of drives in RAID configuration) and a couple of WD NAS drives. | |
| Replacing current sub with another The Vandie 2W is a good sub, but frankly I'd upgrade the Hsu to a VTF-15H MK2. I use two of them and have been quite happy with the performance and adjustability. | |
| Bridged amps vs stereo vs monoblocks. As I understand it when you bridge an amp you will double its output at 8 and 4 ohms, but not 2 ohms. That is not always the case - it depends on the amp. If you have one with a sufficient power section it will 'double down' I own a pair of a... | |
| How to prevent visitors from touching your system The worst are children - tell them not to do something and that is exactly what they will do. I had a friend over who was one of those 'my kid can do no harm' types and they walked into the room where I keep my main system. I instantly told him ... | |
| Integrating speakers into contemporary decor - can WAF ever be overcome? If you can't reach a trade off where you get speakers she doesn't particularly like and she gets something in other rooms she likes, consider investing in an acoustically transparent movie screen (possibly a motor driven one that lowers from the c... | |
| Surge protector/conditioner for vintage system Just buy a whole house surge protector and have an electrician install it for you, and then forget about it. | |
| Bang for the buck Vandersteens are second to none as far as not 'wasting' money on fancy veneers etc. All the value goes into the speakers and crossovers and you get socks instead or nice polished wood veneer. I've owned a set of 4As for over 20 years and still li... | |
| We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often The alternative is to own amps that will drive anything. I was lucky enough to buy several Class A amps that were stable into 1 ohm loads early in my audio hobby - a pair were driving the heck out of Apogee Scintillas at 1 ohm setting. | |
| What's your experience with snooty HiFi salesmen? I hate shops with salesmen that tell you what they think you should be hearing in an audition, and have actually asked them to keep their opinions to themselves as they held zero interest for me - I was only interested in what I thought. |