celtic66
Responses from celtic66
| Sensitive enough speakers for low power SET Second the Coincident. Several advantages to high efficiency speakers such as ease of load for the amp and oft very good low volume level resolution. | |
| Outboard Dac's...Do they make a big difference? ABSOLUTELY!!!! Not a big fan of Mac and can promise either of these DACs will improve the resolution, imaging of the player. | |
| Bedroom system for my 10 year old son NHTs are great but need some current. Older NAD or Rotel integrated will push them. | |
| Find another DAC for my original Rega Planet? Great transport. I've listened to this as a transport only in systems worth $20,000. Works well with many DACs. The Assemblage, Audio Zone, Scott Nixon...... | |
| Looking for an excellent outdoor FM antenna Lots of forum feedback for this subject. Best unidirectional for little money is C.Crane Reflect. Best omnidirectional for money is probably Magnum whip. | |
| What speakers would you travel with? Trends 10.1, Scandyna Micropods. Sounds good and really trippy with red Micropods with their little Sputnik feet. Each piece fits into a sock. | |
| Best floorstanders under $600 Assumed used, Totem Arro. | |
| Inexpensive starter system What Wrtickle said. Can't go wrong and it will sound better than 90% of what is out there. | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? I know the sound. I spent considerable time with Audio Physics floorstanders and found them to do the disappearing act better than any other floorstander I've heard. Of course they do the very slim line cabinet thing to accomplish this. They get t... | |
| cd recorder vs. computer burner I've done the comparison burning at 4X vs 24X and on my computer it does make a difference. I think the stand alone burners usually sound better because of their slow burn times which produce fewer errors. | |
| How much improvement with better toslink cable? What Buff said. Don't understand why Toslink is so quickly discarded as I've heard it sound superior to coax on more than one occassion. | |
| cheap high quality power strip Signal Cable. | |
| Who's modded modified speaker's cross -over? I've never modified a speaker crossover, however I've upgraded the crossovers of 15 pairs of speakers over the years. I've used Panasonic metallized film or Solen capacitors of equal value for the caps pulled. Once I used Auricaps, but they tend t... | |
| Best Albums Of 2008 Congratulations Timbrepitch, I don't recognize a single artist on that list. Must not be Jazz, Blues, Celtic or Classical. Must be one of them myopic lists. | |
| Mark Knophler; recommended music?? Chet Atkins/Mark Knopfler "Neck and Neck" |