madavid0
Responses from madavid0
| Tonearms: Ripoff? Maybe a lot, or maybe nothing. If you don't know, you can just say "I don't know".A Tri-Planar U2 costs $6k. A Triangle Art arm to go with my TA table is also $5k (although I'm sure they will offer me a discount because they never sell me anyt... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? So far the only thing I've seen are recommendations for cheap tonearms. @noromance disagreed with me and then proceeded to recommend a Jelco.So what will a TW, SME, Basis, Graham, etc, give me that a Jelco or Audiomods won't? | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? So no one wants to defend high end tonearms? | |
| Tube pre amp The Freya isn’t that good. It’s okay as a filler pre I suppose. | |
| Tube pre amp Most tube pres use tubes like 6SN7 or 12AX7. Some more exotic pres use direct-heated triodes like the 300B or 2A3. I’ve heard here and there that these DHTs are the best for their soundstand / imaging capabilities — is this true? | |
| Job amps: Suck? I upgraded to ProAc D30R | |
| Job amps: Suck? I’m asking about this because I’m entering the market soon for an upgrade amp/integrated. I’m gearing up to drop on a ML, possibly Luxman, BAT, even a Vitus. Maybe AudioNet...maybe even a Gryphon. However I don’t WANT to spend that kind of cash — ... | |
| Job amps: Suck? Compare the internals with, say, a BAT, ML, Luxman, etc. Just very unimpressive. | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 I strongly, STRONGLY doubt the breathless claims made about this amp. Has anyone performed an actual meaningful sonic comparison with high end amps? | |
| Crown XLS 1502.... real life test. I tried the top of the line of the XLS amps (the the 2 Drivecore 2 modules forget the specific model).Trash. Very low-fi experience, no inner detail, dead, just junk. I can’t help but read these glowing reviews as evidence that a lot of people her... | |
| High End is Dead? Most of ads on Audiogon is for old and/or off-brand gear for less than $1000. Wilsons and Magicos are a tiny minority of listings and they're all from dealers. In reality no one is buying high end. I went to AXPONA this year, and I didn't see many... | |
| High End is Dead? Anyone who says high end is changing to personal audio is just saying that the high end is dead. Cell phones sound like CRAP. Modern pop music is TRASH. I have a pretty good portable player and it merely sucks LESS.Meanwhile I have a Technics netw... | |
| High End is Dead? Then why are the large majority of ads for this gear by dealers -- usually the SAME dealers over and over again? | |
| High End is Dead? How many people at AXPONA are buying? I bet you very few will buy anything above a few thousand dollars. | |
| High End is Dead? Okay, how many pieces of high end have you sold / bought? Recently? |