bigpowerballs
Responses from bigpowerballs
| PS Audio P500 opinions/experiences It made a phenomenal difference to my system, raising the performance up to what it should be for an expensive CJ tube-based system. I just plug the factory-supplied cords, two from the pre-amp and one from the cd player, into the regenerator sect... | |
| Which components knocked you out on first listen? The Boulder Rocky amplifier. | |
| best concert venue Mountain Winery in Saratoga, CA-- no question. | |
| Upgrade to new Conrad Johnson Premier 140 ? While waiting for thenew PR 140 I had ordered,I borrowed a Premier 11A from the dealer. In retrospect, I liked the 11A much better! The vocals were much more clear. For some reason, the PR140 DOES sound a lot like transistors. Maybe it's the negat... | |
| How does this happen--CD defect? I once purchased what was labeled to be Kansas' "Point of No Return" cd. It turned out it had a different Kansas cd recorded on it, definitely not the "Point of No Return" I had intended to buy! I guess sometimes they slap the wrong labels on them... | |
| most analog sounding CDP Musical Fidelity NuVista 3D CDP. | |
| Are Wilson speakers Wilson speakers ARE cold and sterile. Try some musically engaging speaker lines, like Sonus Faber and ProAc. | |
| Audio Physic Virgo or Sonus Faber Cremona I auditioned the Virgos through SS at a stereo store, and I thought they sounded truly horrible-- congested, raspy, immediately fatiguing. I could not get out of the room fast enough! I auditioned and eventually purchased the SF Cremonas. I auditi... | |
| Best of your best - Your Top 25 Hey, Metralla.....we've got the SAN JOSE SHARKS... Pacific Division Champions (again) and #2 seed in the Western Conference, heading into the National Hockey League playoffs!!....GO SHARKS! BEAT THE BLUES! (ST. LOUIS, that is!) We also have The A... | |
| Best sub 1k tube pre amp for ss amp Dare to be your own "Budget Boss" !! Failing that, I would recommend a CJ PV-11 or CJ PV-5. | |
| Guidance for a college student... Take the aerospace job. Lawyers are a dime a dozen, and new lawyer wannabees fresh out of law school are 2 cents per hundred thousand, at the most!Believe me; I know! | |
| How to Identify which Is the OK, here's the answer. Brian, owner of The Analog Room, volunteered to come over to troubleshoot. Within abouit a minute, he found the problem. One of the fuses in the power amp had blown out, although there was no red LED indicator lit up in the ... | |
| Best integrated Tube amp as an intro to tubes You should post this under the "amps/preamps" forum, not here under the "cable" forum. | |
| How to Identify which Is the Thanks for the responses. As of this morning , it was a very distant left channel, and no right channel. I tried a different (borrowed) CD Player-SAME RESULT.I tried reversing the CDP out to the preamp--same result.I then tried reversing the L and... | |
| What music do you want to play really loud? Boston, particularly "More Than a Feeling" |