noromance
Responses from noromance
| Cables more hype than value? $5000 for 6 feet of power cable?! My entire rig cost that! Just dump the wall outlets and run the NM10 to a home made distribution box using hospital grade outlets and hook your gear into that. Or hard wire everything doing away with sockets and c... | |
| Is the Eico HF 81 really that good? Can't speak for the HF81 but my HF35 6L6GC monos with new caps are outstanding. Lovely musicality, timbre, and delicacy and decent clean articulate bass. | |
| What is the Phono stage you have finished with? Manitunc, I hear you. I guess I would have to hear it to be swayed to step up to the plate. I can buy a lot of records for that upgrade! | |
| Which components knocked you out on first listen? Of all the different systems I've heard, the component that made the biggest impression on me was the original Croft Micro driving a refurbished (by me) Leak Stereo 20 blowing away a very expensive Naim NAC/NAP250 set up. | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... You might like this guy: ralfy.com Hundreds of videos of whisky/whiskey reviews. | |
| What equipment do you most regret parting with?? 401 I sold for $75 and...301 with Grace 707 I let my folks throw away along with a clone of a Croft Mega-Micro I built and a box of tubes including a bunch of Mullard and Seimens M8137, CV4004 etc... | |
| Best drink while listening to your rig? Bushmills 1608 or Ardbeg, Maine Beer Co. King Titus or St. Bernardus Abt 12, Penfold's Grange. Tazo Chai tea with soy creamer! | |
| What is the Phono stage you have finished with? I can neither afford nor am I willing to spend more that $1000 on a phono amp. I had an early Croft Micro that I upgraded myself, doubling up the psu, upgrading the resitors and swapping out the stock tubes for Telefunkens and the output driver to... | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? Remove the metal cover from your tube preamp. Never play a record with the plastic lid closed. In fact remove the lid completely. | |
| What time do you wear? 1992 Omega DeVille | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? 2011 Kia Sportage, Infiniti FX45, Bentley Mulsanne. | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? Man cave setup so she doesn't care. I buy vintage classics that don't cost too much. I don't get needing to spend fortunes on high mark up gear. My rig sounds great for a lot less dough than most. | |
| Where does your user name come from? The name of a new wave clothing store across the street from a record store I used to hang around in back in the day. Seemed to suit my mood at the time. | |
| ARC preamp Voltage convertion from 110v to 220V? Something like this...http://www.amazon.com/Power-Bright-VC500W-Voltage-Transformer/dp/B000MX1QXA/ref=pd_sim_e_4 | |
| ATC SCM11 vs Monitor Audio Gold Reference 60 Your system is speaker heavy. They deserve much more than an Onkyo amp. |