maineiac
Responses from maineiac
| New to the Hobby what would you do next? If I read this right, you've gone through 4 amps, 3 pre-amps, and 3 sets of speakers in 8 months. When do you have time to listen and figure out what you like and don't like? | |
| Von Schweikert LCR-15 or B&W HTM2 Try your vr-1s as a center to test and see how well or poorly they match. | |
| Billboard's awards .....yikes Mariah is scary. | |
| The Best Inexpensive Wines Available Now Copala and Rabbit Ridge | |
| Music Recommendation: Feist - Let It Die Just got it and I am listening to it now. VERY nice and one hell of a recorded disc. | |
| Stands for VR4JR? I saw some on a web site the other day but I checked my history and can't figure out where it was. I was looking for maple butcher blocks and whatever company I was looking at had a nice custom made, heavy duty stand for the 4JRs. | |
| A trick with Scotch Whisky My stomach did a backflip when I read this post. This could be an argument for blind comparisons, if I knew what I was drinking, I couldn't ever get it down. | |
| Why does my laptop annoy me less than my rig? I think the expectation factor hits the nail on the head. I have the reverse effect, It is sometimes annoying to listen to music on anything but my rig. I have crossed the point where my system can be listened to for hours and it is just really fu... | |
| CHRISTMATH... I have about 15 X-mas CD's, ranging from the various artist collections, A Very Special Christmas discs to classical, nutcraker, etc. | |
| Musical Fidelity A3.2 v. tubed CD players You may consider auditioning some different speakers with the A3.2 as well. I have found the 804s to be a bit bright. | |
| Musical Fidelity A3.2 v. tubed CD players If you like MF, you should check out the A5 which is a very nice tubed CDP. It can be had for just a smidge over your budget if you look around. I think you will give up detail with the JD100. It is interesting that your logic flowed from the chan... | |
| where do i go from here? I would also consider a decent DAC if you're really wanting to stick with the SAT as your main source. | |
| Mark Knopfler Recommendations Thanks, 3 on the way from Amazon. | |
| XM radio no longer commercial free I have been an XM subscriber since they first they began and have it in my car, in my bedroom, and now on my main system through DirecTV. I listen mostly to the Jazz channels and deep tracks. Yesterday they had an awesome inteview with W. Marsalis... | |
| Why receivers aren't worth the "competetive price" Here is a good test - what would be better seperates that meets the criteria, including needed interconnects for $1K?http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?bhome&1132597329&read&3&4& |