zaikesman
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| Suggested NEW CATEGORIES I want to second the motion for a section for formal member reviews of equipment. The idea for an outline of criteria would be an excellent way to keep the content worthwhile. I too would trust such a section here at A-Gon above similar offerings ... | |
| anyone else daisy chain "jitterboxes"? Just read Greg Kong's review of the new DIP 48/96 Upsampler on Soundstage.com. He compares it to the 24/96 non-upsampling version (the new one is $50 more) and seems to find the Upsampler's sound less along the lines of what Sean disliked about th... | |
| Headphones and amp questions I use the X-Cans v.2 with the HD600's, and can recommend the combo. The MF amp won out over an Antique Sound Labs MG Head DT during my in-home auditioning as being more dynamic, extended, and neutral, if a little more "in-your-ear" up-front in pre... | |
| Suggested NEW CATEGORIES Yea on the Phono Stage section idea - this has also occurred to me while trying to browse. Here's another: Headphones & Headphone Amps.An similar proposal that I e-mailed to A-Gon a while ago: Leave Forum topics on the New Today page until the... | |
| marantz cdr500 recorder/playback quality The straight CD playback quality of this machine is unexceptional, and doesn't qualify as high-end, IMHO. See my in-depth review titled "CD Burners: Marantz vs. HHB" in the archives. Unfortunately, the search engine won't recover this thread direc... | |
| anyone else daisy chain "jitterboxes"? Re-reading my previous post, forgive me but I'm going to clarify a couple of points. In the final analysis, I do not believe that the DIP actually leans out tonal colors in the least. The "yang-ish" character I mentioned above was only in relation... | |
| anyone else daisy chain "jitterboxes"? Actually in my system, I found both Sean's and Twylie's assessments to be true in a way. It took me about 3 hours of auditioning to decide that what I was hearing, while obviously a distinct change, was an unequivocal improvement. At first, I was ... | |
| cornfedboy, signing off When I came to this forum about a year ago, the first poster I consistently noticed was the cryptic "cfb". Was it his deflating sense of humor, or just his ubiquitousness? At first I thought, "Wiseacre". Later on I came to understand I could drop ... | |
| Okay, the gloves are off. Let the fur fly TWL - Of course that descriptive was meant in fun. Your statement at the beginning about slings and arrows - maybe you're trying to catch some where there are none? No need to apologize for having a point of view here (or to ride in on a Trojan ho... | |
| anyone else daisy chain "jitterboxes"? I have one DIP 24/96 between my Theta Pearl and DSPro Basic IIIa, and I think it works a treat. However, I cannot see adding yet another box (albeit small), power cable, and digital interconnect to my system here (where I formerly had just a CDP!)... | |
| Okay, the gloves are off. Let the fur fly Well, now that TWL has revealed himself to be the "agent provocateur" some of us suspected all along, I will add this caveat to my comments above: It is doubtlessly true that many speaker manufacturers' design "choices" are in fact dictated to som... | |
| Bob Dylan, Keith Richards & Tom Waits: A cappella I must object strongly to your "worst voices in music" characterization! Did you hear the finale to the "Divas" show?! Look for my upcoming response record release wherein I harmonize "It's Not Easy Being Lean" (er, make that "Green") with Fred Du... | |
| Stereophile looses Jonathan Scull Jadem6, although I can't quite yet agree with his call for JA's head, is quite right about the Dunlavy IV classification affair. I would extend his critique to the whole of "Recommended Components" in this way: Unequal treatment is the norm, and t... | |
| Okay, the gloves are off. Let the fur fly I think TWL is being a little disingenuous with his question here. He is obviously perfectly well aware (as are all of his fine respondents above) of the various "technical" advantages, disadvantages, and tradeoffs inherent in any of the schools o... | |
| Ultralinear vs. Triode My one experience auditioning with a switchable amp was Air Tight 100w monoblocks with EL-34's through SoundLab Dynastats (electrostat mid/upper panels, dynamic cone in reflex box bass). I thought that the amps were much more in control and much h... |