sc53
Responses from sc53
| Your top 3 My top three: Sonny Rollins, Way Out West Patricia Barber, any of them Dexter Gordon, Dexter Calling | |
| Where to get advice on a new system build I would first determine what speakers I want. Wilson has never been to my taste so I can’t help you there. My tastes run more to Vandersteen, Audio Physic, and ProAc. I’d be considering allocating $10-12,000 on speakers, and $5000 each on an integ... | |
| Audio shopping at its best Several of the places had walls of electronics on the shelves like in Best Buy or Crazy Eddie’s BITD. But these electronics were super high end Accuphase, Esoteric, Luxman, god knows what else. One wall was nothing but every model of Project TT cu... | |
| Speaker cables for Ayre gear with KEF speakers I used to use Transparent Ultra cables with my Ayre amp and CD player. I have now changed to XLO speaker cables and Ansuz balanced interconnects with my current Ayre gear (VX5-Twenty amp and QX5-Twenty streamer/DAC). I never liked Cardas with my s... | |
| Which Cartrudge For My Upcoming Technics 1200 GR 2 Turnable - Looking at Ortofon 2m Black I have the 2M Black on the same TT and love it. My phono pre is an older PS Audio GCPH. I have used this setup on a variety of music for 5 yrs and have no itch to change anything. | |
| How old were you when audio gear first caught your interest? I was 12–used my first earnings as a babysitter to buy a little Phillips “suitcase” record player where the speaker latched on to the turntable. I think there was only one speaker. This was at the Ft Belvoir PX circa 1965. All additional babysitti... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? A Tidal playlist called Space to Bakersfield: Slacker Folks. It’s pretty good | |
| Do You Regret Selling Your Turntable and Albums ? I haven’t culled any of my collections — LPs, CDs, SACDs, a few DVD-As, even about 100 laserdiscs (!) — bc I haven’t moved in 33 yrs and can still climb up and down stairs so don’t plan to vacate my place yet. Everything is organized and stored on... | |
| SHARE YOUR SACDs THAT SOUND FANTASTIC!! I’ve got to say any recording by Steely Dan sounds fantastic on any format, bc they paid attention to that when they recorded their albums. Even my old Can’t Buy a Thrill album from college days still sounds great. SACD might almost be overkill. | |
| SHARE YOUR SACDs THAT SOUND FANTASTIC!! Two I played this morning are excellent: Ben Webster, My Romance (Ultradisc UD-SACD8934-2, Top Music 2009); and John Lee Hooker, The Hot Spot original motion picture soundtrack (Analogue Productions 2009). I’m looking up a couple of the other reco... | |
| Kid in a Candy Shop Bin diving is the best. I do it wherever I go and always bring something home. There’s a good used record store in Greenfield MA which I visit every time I go see my sister who lives up there. One time I bought a bunch of 1950s and 1960s comedy re... | |
| BAT amp + cheap pream vs BAT integrated vs Prima Luna integrated Don’t leave Ayre out of the equation. Used pieces are available for reasonable prices and their stuff lasts forever. I’ve never even blown a fuse in 30+ yrs of various Ayre amps. *correction I did blow a fuse turning my VK-5 Twenty up to 90 on a ... | |
| Any ladies in the audience? Mahgister—please quit posting your very outdated and uninformed thoughts on what are “masculine” and “feminine” traits and habits. I enjoy your posts on stereo but on men and women—no. | |
| An SACD Lesson Learned and the Marantz SA 1 OP—long ago I had an SA-1, bought it new from one of my local dealers (yes BITD I had several good brick and mortar stereo shops I kept up with), and I agree 100% with everything you said. [note: Faustuss why would you bother to even post that you... | |
| BAT amp + cheap pream vs BAT integrated vs Prima Luna integrated I am a BAT owner too and in the past owned ATC large bookshelf speakers. If I were you, right now, with ATC speakers, I'd look for a used Ayre amp and the best used BAT preamp you can find. You'll see that I use that combo myself in the summer whe... |