shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| Is overloading of a preamp volume dependent? Yes high volume may overload the output stages of a pre, however, a high input signal can overload the input stage at any volume level. | |
| too bad Audiogon seems to have morphed to fussy, picky buyers Sellers blaming Audiogon for the customer and market? If if you don’t have a good product at a fair price then guess what....Just the other day I encountered a dealer wanted only 30% off of list price for 10 year old amplifier. As a negitiation ta... | |
| Moving from MM to MC DL-110 is a great warm FM sounding cartridge | |
| How loud is too loud Damaged tweeter(s)- as a minimum the ferrofluid probably dried up - possibly voice coil is now rubbing and only works at all at higher volume. | |
| Thoughts on the most difficult instruments for speakers to reproduce? 1) Without doubt a realistic live drum set. Percussion has such massive dynamics most speakers badly compress at realistic levels.2)Grand piano is tough too.3) Pipe Organ - especially the low notes. | |
| Tube Preamps..... Try to figure out what you want - lean, warm or lush?+1 CJ is very good value not so good on resale if it doesn’t work for you. Mcintosh is a great classic sounding choice with good resale but higher priced because highly desirable - warm but not ... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? Unless you get a quality tube preamp then there should be little difference from adding an SS preamp in the path. A quality tube preamp will not necessarily be transparent but good ones will give you a wonderful warm presentation. Keeping signal l... | |
| Why do no audio enthusiasts use McIntosh? Mcintosh started in 1949. It is one of the most successful high end brands. It is the Rolex of high end audio - respected for aesthetics, functionality and reliability. Like Rolex - built like a tank and being highly desirable holds value better t... | |
| Your thoughts about ATC loudspeakers @jon_5912 What at are you using as a source and preamp with the Active 110?A tube preamp will warm up ATC as they simply reproduce what is fed to them...very faithful to the source. | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! @whitecamaross Did you compare C1100 to any other Mcintosh tube preamps?I agree for power SS that Pass Labs is equaled but never surpassed. The 350 is a musical beast. | |
| Phono Preamps with "balls" ? Denon DL-110 - nice FM sound. | |
| High End is Dead? Don’t think it’s dead. I have simply found dealers are often unwilling to move on price. They are preapared to sit on gear for a year or more if necessary. I find individuals are much more reasonable and will move on price to get a sale done and m... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @gdhal Even harmonic distortion is pleasing. It is higher order odd harmonics above 7th which are not pleasing and harsh sounding.It looks like the R-2R DAC has equal amounts of even and odd harmonic distortion. The 2nd harmonic being the most imp... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Here is a thesis paper explaining why R-2R DACs have lots of harmonic distortion.Looks like the distortion is consistent across all harmonics.https//pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9a52/fcba6dd87371974b3c146dbb5a3a00ffee74.pdf These students were sponsor... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Perhaps it is the harmonic distortion from an R-2R DAC that listeners like - kind of like tubes - measures poorly but sounds subjectively better...With two types of resistor perhaps the distortion is more in the even harmonics.All I can say is tha... |