jasonbourne52
Responses from jasonbourne52
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? If digital playback required as much tweaking as analog audiophiles would be more enthusiastic about digital! The more hands-on a hobby is, the more satisfaction for its participants! | |
| An Endless Journey. Get a pair of Quad 57's! They will work well with your Naim Nait amp. Every audiophile should at some point own a pair or two! | |
| What's the market these days for NOS 70's/80's cartridges and/or tonearms? Speaking of tonearms: I have a NIB Mayware Formula 4. Back in the Days of Yore (1977) I had the Australian JH copy mounted on the Ariston RDII Superior TT with a Microacoustic 2002 electret cartridge. This was a particularly nice sounding set up! | |
| What's the market these days for NOS 70's/80's cartridges and/or tonearms? Original Blue Note jazz LPs now sell for hundreds! I can't afford those - and wouldn't pay those prices anyway! Anybody want to bid on my Andy Warhol banana sticker (intact) Velvet Underground LP. Record mint - looks never played. Cover (version 3... | |
| What's the market these days for NOS 70's/80's cartridges and/or tonearms? I have a NOS Shure V15-mk5mr in original box plus a NIB Jico replacement stylus. Wonder what these will be worth two decades from now? So far I have held off from using this V15! I have plenty of other cartridges on hand. Using the NOS Shure can o... | |
| MQA actually tested After examining the pro's and con's of MQA I have reached. the conclusion it is a con to extract more cash from the unwary! Excessive signal processing never results in better SQ! | |
| Small Footprint SS Power Amps +1 hypoman! The Quad 405 -1 and 2 are great and innovative SS amp designs worthy of inclusion in any hi-end system! Too bad that today they are largely forgotten due to the hype for the latest greatest amp! Mine has been nicely upgraded by the pre... | |
| Small Footprint SS Power Amps Adcom GFA-1A, Belles II, Carver The Cube, Quad 303 and 405, SWTP 207. All narrower designs. I have them in my amp collection. | |
| Cary SLP-98L tube question "In the cathode follower you use the voltage swing across a resistor between ground and the cathode. This voltage swing will be roughly the same as the grid, but the current swing will be greater." This gives a low impedance drive for the output ... | |
| Which pre amp do I keep, Perraux SM-2 or Plinius CD Lad I have a Perreaux 2150B too! A heavyweight contender - literally! I’d keep the SM-2! Nice to have a matching set up! I don’t think the Plinius is any better! | |
| Looking for a turntable around $1k... The cartridge is most vital for getting the most music out of those tiny grooves! That's why I have been using moving coils since the mid-70's. For the cheapskate the Denon 103 series (1962!) still reigns at the top! They are not fussy about set u... | |
| Looking for a turntable around $1k... Don't forget that I also use a Linn Sondek but my direct drive TTs have a sense of solidity compared to the beguiling "airiness" of a good belt drive TT (Ariston, AR, Empire, Rek-O-Kut, Sony, Thorens, Yamaha). I own all these plus the Linn! | |
| Looking for a turntable around $1k... What's wrong with Rega? One word - rubber bands! A belt drive - even the expensive one's - lack the sheer momentum and drive in the bass easily achieved by most direct drives. | |
| Your top 3 most EMOTIONALLY intense live concerts, and top 3 EMOTIONALLY intense records. How about two LPs that I've returned to over the years: Procul Harum's Shine On Brightly, Weather Report's I Sing The Body Electric. The PH is a masterpiece of late 60's psychedelics; the WR a masterwork of mid 70's jazz! | |
| Your top 3 most EMOTIONALLY intense live concerts, and top 3 EMOTIONALLY intense records. Rod Stewart and the Faces (Ron Wood on bass) at the Cow Palace in San Francisco (February 1975). What a raucous show! My runner-up would be Johnny Winter at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY (September 1991). A legend guitar slinger gone all... |