drubin
Responses from drubin
| looking for upgrade suggestions - 12,000 to spend To start, I would use the No. 39 as a transport and add a DAC, such as the Dodson. I did just that myself and I feel it is a big step up. After you do that, explore the TacT RCS to work on the room. The Dodson (or other high quality outboard DAC) ... | |
| Tweak worth 100X It's price - Vibrapods In my experience, Vibrapods leave a residue on whatever they are in contact with, like a shelf or a component. How are people dealing with this annoyance? | |
| Speakers for the party system I think the PSBs would be an excellent choice. | |
| Problem with my Sony SCD-777ES Interesting! With SACD I get the NO DISC message and also a hang in TOC read mode. I also get a lot of skipping with redbook CDs, a problem I never had with my Levinson or the two JVC CDPs I had before. However, I have had no trouble reading the f... | |
| Problem with my Sony SCD-777ES I agree, and that's what I'll do. Just hoping there was an easier solution. | |
| Problem with my Sony SCD-777ES Yes, I powered down for two hours, re-leveled, and still have the clicking sound. | |
| Problem with my Sony SCD-777ES Thanks for you ideas, everybody. My unit is almost a year old and is fully broken in.This morning, it seems to be playing SACDs, but the mechanical noise persists. It is both louder and more rapid at the lower-numbered tracks than towards the end ... | |
| MC Cartridge break-in? Is there a "best way" to break in a cartridge? | |
| Best Patricia Barber's CD? Yes, the greatest appeal of these recordings is the sonics. But the sonics are mighty appealing. | |
| Would You Pay to Listen? I'm with seth. I would pay for a no-pressure listening session with gear I'm interested in. A corollary to this: I would pay for in-home evaluation, if a dealer wanted to offer, say, rental units. | |
| Market Research in High End Market I do market research for a living. I doubt that anyone save perhaps Sony has done any research on the high end beyond warranty response cards and casual inquiry of the dealer channel.I'd give anything to run a focus group with audiophiles! | |
| TACT RCS 2.0 Users Group Audioguy123, can you give a general description of the TacT's variation from target correction (which frequencies, how much, etc.) in your experience of measuring it? Thanks. | |
| Avalon or ProAc? Let me add that I don't have much familiarity with the larger ProAcs (3.8, 4), mine is the two-way 2.5 (the Eclipse is also a two-way). Also, the Eclipse was and is about the most beautiful looking loudspeaker I know of. I loved having them as fur... | |
| Avalon or ProAc? I owned Eclipses for several years and was never really happy with them. A lot of factors certainly, including room issues (I could never get satifactory bass from them). I now own ProAc 2.5's and much prefer them. Your milege may vary, and obviou... | |
| are we are own worst enemies? Jadem6, a 40% markup as standard sounds awfully low to me. That would mean a product with dealer cost of $2000 would sell for $2800 after being marked-up 40%. A 40% margin (67% markup) seems more reasonable. |