thom_oz
Responses from thom_oz
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! This is great if you don’t mind someone else choosing the mastering / release version for you. I’m VERY picky about my cds, and of the half dozen versions out there of ’Captain Fantastic’ the only one I care to listen to was mastered in the 1980s.... | |
| Biwiring make any sense? Biwiring can change the load on the crossover components and change the phase characteristics of the speaker. Biwiring sounds cleaner, essentially - IF the speakers are designed to take advantage of it. Vandersteen 2 is but one example. Most w... | |
| MoFi or Harbeth (used) soix is right, the Ohm Walsh 2 are terrific for off-axis listening and i have a set in my bedroom. This said, I own the Mofi Sourcepoint 8 and it is enough bass for my living room, which is the same size as the OP's. The Sourcepoint 10 would have... | |
| What is your "holy grail song" that you cannot find? @judsauce I own an eighties reissue of that 45. You can’t be looking very hard, one can be bought off Discogs for as low as 60 cents. https://www.discogs.com/master/405124-The-Bubble-Puppy-Hot-Smoke-Sasafrass | |
| Speakers that disappear re: brummgon: I saw a relevant interview with Richard Vandersteen recently, in his opinion the speakers with the largest sweet spot are the ones with the worst phase accuracy, and they can't do pin-point imaging as a result. This is why his design... | |
| Speakers that disappear I have a pair of Magnepan MMG, Vandersteen 2 and Mofi Sourcepoint 8 all in my living room, hooked up to the same McIntosh amplifier (using a switch-box). ALL three pair do the disappearing act . . . but the listening chair had to be moved forwar... | |
| The dangerous world of Reel-to-Reel Tape This might be familiar to all but it bears repeating: Vintage BASF and EMItape don't sticky shed but Ampex does. The difference between these is formulation, and where the former two use whale blubber oil as a binder, Ampex used petroleum derivati... | |
| The dangerous world of Reel-to-Reel Tape @kraftwerkturbo I have a mix-tape cassette I made of college radio tracks from 1983 (dubbed from my then-new records) and it stall plays quite well! It's a Memorex Type II with Dolby B. On commercial open-reel I have a Tom Jones s/t album on Par... | |
| High quality recordings any genre to the OP (and anyone else): some recommended cds I’m listening to two boxed sets of Mercury Living Presence classical (recorded by Robert Fine onto 35mm film between 1955-70) and all the RCA Living Stereo classical titles recorded by John Pfeiff... | |
| The dangerous world of Reel-to-Reel Tape @oldschool1948 I hope you mean that the dbx box preserved the dynamics of those recordings you were capturing. Me, I wouldn't want the original dynamics altered in any way when taping (it audibly "pumps" if you push dynamic restoration more than ... | |
| Optical Phono Cartridges @richopp The DS Audio optical cart system has nothing to do with the optical in on your receiver and they are completely incompatible. Basically the optical cart replaces the magnets or coils in a traditional cart with a shutter and LED light. ... |