onhwy61
Responses from onhwy61
| The Sound or Music I don't cherish sound over substance. I like good sound, but I love good music. If I had to chose between all my music or my systems. The choice would be a no brainer. The music would win. Fortunately, it's never an either or choice. | |
| Bill Evans Complete Riverside - No Side 2? Thanks for looking into it. I'm going to contact Fantasy records. I'll let you know what they say. | |
| Does "perfect alignment of cart" eliminate 100% ? If you're talking about it happening on many records, then your cartridge setup needs work. If it's only on one or two records, it could be the recordings or your specific discs. | |
| Why not horns? Macrojack, part of the reason you're getting some negativity about this post is because there's an inherent arrogance in your question. You may not have intended that to be the case, but it's there. In form your question is no different than, "I'v... | |
| Why not horns? Why isn't everybody using recent model Quad electrostatics? Single driver, no crossover, low distortion, etc... | |
| Duke Ellington - Four symphonic works Here's some commentary and a book review about Ellington from a recent "New Yorker" article. It talks about how he composed pieces and puts some perspective on how difficult it was for him to perform for most of his career. | |
| who wants tone controls on your next preamp? If you go to a quality steak house type restaurant you'll always find salt and pepper on the table. The chefs cook the food to your specification, but as the eater you have the option to slightly season your meal. That's kinda' what well designed ... | |
| who wants tone controls on your next preamp? Be honest, some audiophiles don't have the intelligence to properly use high quality tone controls. You know who you are! | |
| Class "D" amp? I do not have a clue. Do you? Stringreen, please explain your statement. I don't see anywhere on the Vandersteen website or the user manual's where it's stated not to use class D amps. | |
| Equipment between speakers... Post more pictures of your entire room. The one picture on your system page could be misleading, but it does look like you're leaving much of your system's potential untapped. | |
| amp clipping or low freq causing pumping speakers Have you tried repositioning your turntable? You might have it placed in a room node peak. | |
| amp clipping or low freq causing pumping speakers You're a little unclear, but it sounds like your turntable is not sufficiently isolated. | |
| Do I really need R2R ? Damn right, you should be scared. Only get a r2r if you're physically fit enough to deal with the throngs of hot, young, buxom audiobabes who will permanently encamp themselves in your listening room. A r2r is more trouble than it's worth, but if ... | |
| High powered point to point tube amp? Why do you think you need a tube amp? What's wrong with what you got now? | |
| The Next Step - what would you do? Before doing anything else, experiment with a better quality balanced cable between your D/A and amp. It could easily solve your resolution problem and really help with the dynamics too. |