mgreen27
Responses from mgreen27
| Current production EL34 tubes for vtl mb-125 Try Cable Company. They have a large selection of tubes (both new and NOS). They test them all and keep track of the differences in SQ so that when you call them, they can make a good recommendation. Not everything is listed on the web site. | |
| Help needed with PC/DAC A few of the choices you need to make are counter intuitive, so try going through this setup guide. Its for the AQ Dragonfly, but the choices you need to make should be the same. | |
| Lots of knobs might cause more repair chance "ebm double negation product in math gives positive magnitude."Double spending in real life gives your dealer positive magnitude. | |
| Optical Audio Outputs. Is there audible differences or are they all the same? "Do i have to consider the "quality" of the output from the blu-ray player?"Yes. The transport, like any other component, is very important to playback quality. Part of the quality is how you connect the transport to your dac. (I'm assuming you ar... | |
| room space There's a big difference between reading about something in a magazine or sales brochure (white paper) and doing it for real. | |
| room space "We have Focal here which might be the another sister brand of JM Labs. The new Focal costs a lot for the high End models. In now days, you can't image why the hi-end is so expensive."I think Focal is the right name. It used to be JM Labs made th... | |
| room space "Maybe you should consider 2 or 2.5 way speakers to reduce potential overhang bass."How do you come up with that? Unless you are referring to a specific speaker? A well designed 3 or 4 way speaker can easily deal with bass issues that a typical 2 ... | |
| Wilson Audio Sophia III Question/Help "I could never put my finger on it until I had a demo with the Sophia 3, thiel 3.7 and B&W 802D all in the same room for an A/B/C demo. The Thiels had the worst case of this issue (diffused vocals) but the best lateral dispersion. The wilsons ... | |
| Warm Sounding Preamp Suggestions "I'd also have to disagree with mgreen27; a passive is more likely to be transparent, so if the speakers are a problem (which I don't necessarily believe) that would not help."I have no issue with you disagreeing with me, but for the OP's sake, I ... | |
| Wilson Audio Sophia III Question/Help It sounds like you really know what you are doing, but I still have to ask. Have you checked your speaker cables to make sure you haven't wired your speakers out of phase with each other? I'm sure you have, but its such an easy mistake to make, an... | |
| room space You may want to pick a different brand. Dynaudio has always had some issues with bass. Every time I've set them up, I always got that one note type of bass. Some people refer to it as a "hump" in the bass. If I had to choose between the 2, I would... | |
| Looking to build a system for under $5k "There seems to be a consensus here regarding integrated. Perhaps I had mistakenly assumed that a separate amp and pre would be preferable. What at was the line of thinking here? Cost prohibitive given budget?"It's never that simple. People give d... | |
| Should I update Ayre QB9 dac If you call Ayre, they will give you an honest answer. If I was in your place, I trust Ayre enough to go with whatever way they say is best. | |
| Warm Sounding Preamp Suggestions I can tell you from direct, first hand experience, that in order to fix your problem, you need to get rid of the speakers. I can also tell you that you will definitely get rid of them. The only variable will be how much money spend trying to make ... | |
| Looking to build a system for under $5k "Keep this in mind With loudspeakers under $3'k you will jot get real low bass"Assuming that's true (and its not), so what? Most speakers over 3k don't go all the way down either."If on s budget a good stand mount and a decent powered sub would ge... |