jameswei
Responses from jameswei
| Customer service? I had a similar positive experience with Thiel when I overtorqued a speaker wire connection nut and broke the post. They sent me out a replacement promptly, including silver solder! | |
| 'crackling'when using volume ctrl It could also be corrosion on the volume control or a bad capacitor in the preamp. | |
| What happened to Red Rose R3? I believe the rosebud is a smaller speaker at a lower price. I am guessing that it may have a better midrange but less bass extension. The R3 midrange was a little soft. Perhaps the bass driver was designed to provide better bass extension and cou... | |
| Best looking / worst looking amps & preamps I like blue lights so I'd like to nominate the new Pass X Series and the Hovland amps for good looks. I agree the Perreaux blob style was a turnoff, and their new look is much more palatable. | |
| Ugliest speaker ever? Second your nomination of the Avantgarde horns. | |
| Coolest looking speaker ever ? The Wilson Grand Slamms look like they're right out of Star Wars, especially with glossy paint. | |
| Which speaker for "bright" room? Brand A, B orC? I guess what it sounds like you're looking for is a speaker with a rolled off high end. Nowadays, even modestly-priced speakers have pretty decent high ends, and I don't know of any audiophile speakers that are really rolled off (almost by definit... | |
| How to Match Levels? Presumably, you have a mono switch in your system, probably at the preamp. If you use a sound level meter in the middle between your headphone speakers, you would play mono and adjust the balance to a maximum on the meter. I have the Radio Shack a... | |
| Recommended CD of " Smooth Jazz " Here are five smooth jazz "classics": Breezin by George Benson, Duotones by Kenny G, The In Crowd by Ramsey Lewis, A Day in the Life by Wes Montgomery, and Mister Magic by Grover Washington, Jr. For more recent work, I would go with Rar1's list of... | |
| wall to wall rug or linolium floor with area rug? I find the WATT can be a little hot at the top end. If you like that, a more reverberant environment is better. For a smoother presentation, use wall-to-wall carpeting. | |
| Bright / forward speaker cables. Conventional wisdom suggests silver conductor speaker cables should sound brighter. My Audioquest Dragon sounds noticeably brighter than my Cardas Golden Cross. As Sean pointed out, cable sound is very system dependent. The Cable Company at www.fa... | |
| wall to wall rug or linolium floor with area rug? The puppy paws will spike through carpeting and insulation so your speakers will be solidly resting on your underlayment, presumably plywood flooring. They will also spike through your linoleum (if not immediately, then still relatively soon), so ... | |
| Horrific Confession And Puzzling Questions We started doing this in college when the record companies would put one or two hits on an album then load up the rest of it with crap. You know what you want to hear, play it, then go to another album. Perfectly rational.Classical is a little mor... | |
| In the last 20-30 years, what has changed most... Couple different things going on here. First, both amps and preamps have made important progress, but in different directions. Amps sound better now. Preamps do more/different things now. From purely a sound perspective, I'd vote for amps having m... | |
| What's the difference between 33 1/3 60 vs 50 Hz? Strobe discs are typically used with some kind of an electric light powered by AC current. Flashlights won't work, and most users do not pay up for a calibrated strobe flasher. The AC-powered electric light will flutter or blink at twice the AC fr... |