mapman
Responses from mapman
| My favorite Steely Dan song has to be... Bodhisattva! | |
| A good power conditionner with tube amps ? BTW,Benefits of power conditioning with power amps may be debatable or even non-existent, but the benefits clearly exists with other low power level components IMHO. | |
| 840C and MHDT Havana "I suppose it is all about attaining the right balance between dynamic, punch, sparkle etc. and smoothness/musicality."Yes.The Paradisea ain't bad with the former either IMHO, in particular with the Tung Sol tube replacement.The stock GE tube does... | |
| A good power conditionner with tube amps ? I took my power amp off my power strip yesterday as an experiment.I did not hear any improvement or really even a clearly noticeable difference. Interestingly, my Musical Fidelity A3CR continued playing without distortion a good 10 seconds or more... | |
| How Many Turntables Have You Owned Albert,Your first table was a Thorens?That's a pretty good place to start! How old were you?Ever own a ceramic cartridge and replaceable needle as your main rig?Back in college days when I used to work at a well known NY based hifi chain, the Thor... | |
| How Many Turntables Have You Owned Geez, Dual sure did sell a lot of turntables!My 27 year old Dual 1264 is still going strong in my second system with a fine sounding Goldring MM cart of some sort. | |
| why is it that on some records, sound terrible?? Cool!Another pointless upgrade avoided! | |
| Guilty Pleasure recording? The Three Dog Night hits all are classics and great works of pop/rock art. Nobody should feel guilty appreciating them. There are a lot of great tunes out there by acts that perhaps could not assemble a single great accompanying album and hence go... | |
| A good power conditionner with tube amps ? "Not just my experience, read the threads, this has been gone over many times before. IMO, power conditioners are for everything BUT the amplifier."This is not intuitive to me.How or why does it negatively affect the amplifier's sound? | |
| 840C and MHDT Havana Timnaim,My question was;"What is it specifically that the Reimyo does much better than the Havana?"...not the other way around. | |
| Best sounding Krell ? I am somewhat ambivalent regarding Krell. I have heard some very good value systems demo'ed with Krell amplification recently and some other overly expensive systems that totally fell flat.Maybe part of the problem is that those who sell Krell are... | |
| Audio Research sp 16 or sp 17? Volume steps not an issue. None of my speaks are particularly efficient.I do notice that the the remote seems to increase 1 light level which equates to multiple steps at a time whereas the control on the unit increases 1 step at a time.The differ... | |
| 840C and MHDT Havana "is there any negative effect or loss in sound quality feeding 24/96 data to a 16-bit DAC (like the Havana)"It depends on the resolution of the source files being served.If they come from CDs, then I would expect not assuming everything is working... | |
| Audio Research sp 16 or sp 17? The sp16 went in last weekend and is sounding fabulous in the early going.I am very impressed! | |
| Foobar 2000 or MediaMonkey v.3? I use WMP ripping to loss-less .wav format on Windows Vista as the server in my rig. It is fast, easy, reliable and ripped CDs sound as good as original. You definitely want to run the latest XP versions if possible for best results.I also have an... |