wspohn
Responses from wspohn
| Need some help picking my first MC Cartridge I use a Goldring Eroica LX in a third system and have found it to be quite nice. It is within your price range. | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. I vote for Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah', and would nominate Jeff Buckley's version as the best with honorable mention to John Cale's version. | |
| Thank You Fumihiko Sugano and Koetsu I have an original Sugano senior (c 1980s) Koetsu Urushi in my main system and haven't heard anything that would make me want to change that! | |
| Recommend me a DAC under 3k I'd add Hegel to your list - anything from the HD 12 through H 120 do a great job. | |
| Am I wasting money on the theory of Bi-amping? I biamp in one of my systems. I use a pair of mono amps to handle the bass and a different pair of mono amps to handle the mids and highs. The mid/high have the bass rolled off using high quality caps at the amp inputs and there is an adjustable ... | |
| Upgrade my older Linn Sondek or move on? I had an LP12 for awhile - decent table but I moved on (now use a VPI TNT V and a Sota Cosmos in my systems). I prefer either of them to the Linn. | |
| Upgrade my older Linn Sondek or move on? I had an LP12 for awhile - decent table but I moved on (now use a VPI TNT V and a Sota Cosmos in my systems). I prefer either of them to the Linn. | |
| Why Can't Modern Tube Manufacturers Make a Proper Tube? Excellent tube ar being made in China - I recently picked up a set of KT88s and auditioned them against a set of Gold Lions a couple of years old,and some NOS unused Gold Lions. The new Chinese tubes sounded better.... Of course a lot of crap ge... | |
| How Much Do Aesthetics Factor Into Your Decisions? Aesthetics are not high on my list - to the point where unless they are disgustingly ugly (and I have seen some that are) I only look for good sound. I did have a minor battle with my wife when I acquired big Wilsons - first when three large crat... | |
| Rant: PSA to builders, housewives, and general complaint I live in an older house that thankfully has walls and doors - large open spaces would drive me crazy trying to 'tune' a system. I have a 65" wall mounted TV above the fireplace and like it - no issue at all. I suppose that it could be a problem... | |
| Is low cost DAC worth it? You can get a lot of bang for the buck with not very expensive DACs. I use a Hegel HD12 DAC in my third system that is amazingly good. IIRC it was something like $1400. | |
| How serious are you? "Serious" seems to equate for some with how often you change gear. I've been doing this for the last 40 years and once you reach a certain point and your main system is making you happy, you seldom want to continue the obsessive upgrade thing. T... | |
| If the DAC is the same, how different do CD transports sound? My CD 'player' is a network drive where I keep my digital music. Will we have to start doing comparison A/B tests with different brands of hard drives? Has anyone actually done that? | |
| Ruminations On CD Players I still own an Arcam Delta 70 they were very good players. Not using it now (I only have one of my 3 systems with a CD player, an Emotiva, but rarely use it since I ripped my entire CD library (thousands of them!) and boxed them up) Consider stre... | |
| "Can You Lift Yours?" I use twin mono amps in one system that weigh in at over 100 lbs. and a single stereo amp in another system that is just under 150 lbs. but all that sounds light compared to some of you! |