twoleftears
Responses from twoleftears
| Replacing driver screws with brass screws The only Peter I can think of is Belt. | |
| Upgrade Question Yes, after trying a transport + DAC for a while, I had such a revelation that I went back to a Luxman one-box CD player. | |
| speaker xover design/testing I was going to say Dennis Murphy but he's retired. Jim Salk is handling the BMR legacy. | |
| What do you think of this power cord? I recommend you take a look at the least expensive offerings in power cords from Cullen and Audio Envy. Either of those is likely going to be better than this... | |
| Who puts their speakers right up against the back wall and why? Surprised there's been no mention of Larsen, one of the very few specifically (re)designed their models for operation right next to walls.Audio Note also comes to mind as a speaker that favors close to wall/corner positioning.90% of pics of system... | |
| Upgrade Question There are plenty of different chips and different implementations in the CD players, and more in others. One certainly doesn't have to go outside the one-box solution to sample (no pun intended) a wide palette of sonic flavors (mixed metaphor int... | |
| Game Changing Tweak Isn't it strange how the most important things come in threes: the Trinity, Auguste Comte's three ages of mankind, Olympic medals, etc. etc. etc. | |
| Decoupling Speakers I have 88 lbs monitors sitting on four legs of an open-topped stand. Each wooden leg is 1 3/4" x 1 3/4". After reading up extensively on the huge variety of different "interfaces" one could insert between the bottom of the speaker and the legs, ... | |
| Upgrade Question There are definite advantages to sticking with the one-box solution.The next question is budget.There are excellent one-box CD players out there, actually quite a lot. The Marantz Ruby and SA-10, Bryston BCD-3, anything from Luxman or Accuphase, ... | |
| Tubes? This is just so typical of some posters here on the 'gon. The OP comes on looking for some reasonable advice about power amp or possibly preamp, and immediately he's told he make a big mistake and needs to get rid of his speakers. My recommendat... | |
| Amp to drive Verdant Nightshade 1 There's a blazing deal right now on Audiogon of the Belles Aria preamp and monoblocks. Think of it as a three-box integrated. They would definitely have the sound profile you're looking for, and the required power. | |
| What tube amp for Harbeth 40.1 It was hearing that set-up in that room that clinched it for me and convinced me to buy 40.2's. I remember that only two or three seconds into the first track I let out an involuntary "Wow!" | |
| Floorstanding speakers - $2-3K Revel? | |
| My pet peeve: "revealing" speakers Shunghite makes everything better. But can I sprinkle it on my cornflakes? | |
| Do materials alter frequencies and speed? Duelund 12 awg inserted in the doughnut hole of multiple Fruit Loops, and then the whole thing wrapped in a large-diameter cotton covering, is also quite effective. |