davidtlai
Responses from davidtlai
| 8 track CRUSHES CD,Vinyl and everything else!!! Yup tape bashers have little idea what they’re talking about or they’ve had experiences with only low end systems back in their days. | |
| Which area of components to spend the most $ on? Boy I was wrong all my life! Have you not had good speakers to begin with your new CD player might not have blown you away now. With mediocre speakers it almost doesn’t matter what you feed it.People suggests going heavy on speakers as a percentage of the INITIAL budget. Over... | |
| What is the best way to tame a slightly bright speaker? Yes bi-wire would be the easiest way | |
| Where do cables upgrades have the most impact? Agree with above about speaker cables, different speakers have their own kind of sounds that tend to work better with particular types of cables. Once you’ve optimised the speaker end of things then you can isolate and play with different parts o... | |
| Where do cables upgrades have the most impact? Really depends on the whole system and you begin with the weakest links | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD You are assuming that your CD and LP pressings are equal. LP Reissues are lots of time inferior to original CD releases. In any case, you’d be surprised how all over the place the qualities are. I suggest using a wider range of recordings for c... | |
| Accuracy vs. musicality yes that accurate music cannot be musical does not make any sense. Live music should be the reference for musicality and by definition it is also 100% accurate. So what we are really talking about here is whether we prefer coloured suboptimal sy... | |
| Why do people buy preamps if they can directly connect amp to stereo source/phone/PC/tv? A good preamp can maximise the source’s potentials by revealing the details in greater resolution (if the speakers have enough accuracy and transparency). In some ways it can be described as the soul of a system. | |
| Is pre-amp getting killed? No substitute for a good tube preamp if budget and space allows | |
| Play music from laptop over WiFi to existing audio system: how? But I would imagine the audio quality of wifi connection would be inferior to that of USB simply because of the unstable nature of wireless connection. | |
| Bi-amp: bridge stereo amps or use Y adapter? Thomas Mayer tube/One pair of Hiraga classe A/Audionote AN silver |