jasonbourne52
Responses from jasonbourne52
| What are/were the best sounding cheap components you have ever had? NAD 3020 bought new in 1978 for $200. Unfailingly musical and quite versatile with its pre/amp in/out jacks. A favorite recommendation of The Audio Critic. | |
| Silver Speaker Cables I have a DH Labs Silver Sonic two-meter IC from preamp to power amp. Plus five pairs of Audioquest Silver Extreme IC's. | |
| Its not vinyl Tell me a lot isn't lost from a master tape when a master lacquer is cut using a cutter head/stylus/amplifier. Then plating the master lacquer to yield the mothers and thence the stampers. The stampers in use have a limited life. This is how LPs h... | |
| Its not vinyl People that want their digital playback to sound like an LP are deluding themselves! LPs have the inherent problems of surface noise, limited channel separation and summed bass, inner groove distortion and cartridge mistracking, limited dynamic ra... | |
| Is symphonic music kind of like Phil Spector got hold of chamber music? Symphonic music has a wider tonal pallette than chamber music. Plus greater spatial effects. | |
| Silver Speaker Cables Copper vs. silver? As the French Chef says " No diffawrance!" | |
| Transients hurting my ears on hifi solid state amps @zonkler +1! Those old Hafler DH200/220 amps are forgotten treasures! Capable of going up against today’s overpriced amps. I have one, along with the Hafler preamp! | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing @ricevs : Rocky the Squirrel to Bullwinkle the Moose - "You don't have to be a squirrel to be nuts!" | |
| Ampzilla 2000 v2 and Mcintosh MC402 I regret selling my McIntosh C28 preamp several years ago. I still have the MR77 tuner! Excellent tuner! | |
| Ampzilla 2000 v2 and Mcintosh MC402 Yes, back in the Days of Yore I was listening to the then-new Snell Type A's driven by the Thaedra/Ampzilla pair fed by a Denon DD TT/DL103/Levinson JC1 clone headamp. | |
| Ampzilla 2000 v2 and Mcintosh MC402 I say sell the McIntosh preamp and buy the SST preamp and the Ampzilla 2000. The pair complement each other! | |
| Ampzilla 2000 v2 and Mcintosh MC402 Back in the Days of Yore (75-79) the original GAS Ampzilla ruled the High End world. Harry Pearson of TAS praised it, calling it "surgically romantic"!!!! It's sibling the Son of Ampzilla garnered more praise! And the Thaedra preamp had the world'... | |
| Ampzilla 2000 v2 and Mcintosh MC402 MC402 because you already have a McIntosh preamp. The MC402 will have a better resale value. The GAS company is out of business, so no warranty repairs. | |
| What speakers have you mistakenly let go and then later repurchased? DCM Time Windows. Owned from 1977- 81. Bought again in 2017. Infinity Monitor 1A’s owned in 1977. Bought again in 2016. Quad 57’s owned 1981-2000. Bought again in 2017 (two pairs). | |
| PowerWedge III conditioner went up in smoke Power conditioners are all snake oil. Try putting one on your refrigerator and see if your electric bill goes down! Same affect for hi-fi! Just another way to extract more money from the gullible! |