roberjerman
Responses from roberjerman
| Small Listening Room - Advice I recommend a pair of LS3/5A's. Designed by the BBC for onsite monitoring use in vans! A venerable design - but still to this day a MAGICAL portrayal of MUSIC! Works superbly in small rooms and matches well with 25 watt amps! | |
| Tastes change with age? I listen to more Jazz now (America's great contribution to Music!). Here in the Tampa area we have great Jazz broadcast every night from WUSF 89.7 FM. Commercial-free from 9 PM to 5 AM! Sounds great on my collection of vintage tuners! | |
| Cartridge Advice Please I recommend the Denon DL103R mc cartridge. Conical tip - not fussy about VTA! An updated version of the venerable DL103 (designed in 1962 for Japanese radio broadcast use). I have been using Denon MC's (103, 103R, 103 Gold Anniversary, 301 and 304... | |
| What should my next upgrade be? Your best experience Your best and biggest change would be speakers. Right now on this site for sale are a pair of Vandersteen Quatro Wood's. At about half-price they are a MAJOR bargain! The seller is asking $5390 and might take less! So check them out! | |
| looking for the best cd transport only, without dac I agree with mattmiller! Get a Streamer instead of a transport (any old CD or DVD player with digital output would work just fine!). A Streamer will give you much more options (like Hi-Rez and easy access to ripped CD's)! | |
| stereo receiver recommendations Close your eyes and pick one! They ALL sound the same! | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio I wish we could ask David Faraday his opinion about the sound of wire! | |
| Best sounding Hard Rock How about some Motorhead: Bomber March Or Die 1916 ... | |
| Most overrated bands Put The Sex Pistols and Coldplay in an Ultimate Fight Match cage - guess who will win! | |
| Floyd-The Wall...which one? The British EMI pressing of The Wall is the best I've heard and owned! I bought mine brand-new sealed cheap about 20+ years ago! Second place goes to the original CBS pressing. | |
| MONO cartridge recommendation I recommend a Denon DL102 - a mono mc cartridge from about 1962 designed for radio broadcast of the then prevalent mono LP's. Still available today! | |
| Great music few are aware of. Any genre. How about: Celtic Frost - "Monotheist" Triptykon - "Melana Chasmata" Sleep - "Dopesmoker" Great progressive metal re... | |
| On Step Ups and the Importance of Managing Gain I have been using various transformers with different mc cartridges for 40 years and have always found them preferable to any active device - even the esteemed Levinson JC-1. | |
| On Step Ups and the Importance of Managing Gain Moving coil cartridges have low voltage but high current. Therefore the best way to achieve higher voltage from a mc cartridge is to use a transformer. This neatly accomplishes the task WITHOUT adding ANY noise to the tiny signal from the mc cartr... | |
| Most transparent power amp Julius Futterman H3AA's driving Quad 57's and KLH Nines! I first heard these back in 1978 and the sound quality is indeed a benchmark for openness and transparency! |