tkhill
Responses from tkhill
| Inherited a pair of JBL 4350 -- Need Advice Send them to me. I'll take care of them. | |
| Background noise. Boxcarman: Absolutely brilliant. It's nice to know vaudeville is still alive! | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear | |
| are we also coffee connoisseurs? Or wine enthusiasts? Grislybutter: You are thinking of the Croatian wine master Mike Grgich. He did a huge amount of work (uncredited) putting California wines where they are today. Croatian reds, b.t.w., can be astonishingly good. | |
| WILL IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? My wife, a professional orchestra and chamber music player and singer much prefers tubes. Me too! | |
| What speakers have you mistakenly let go and then later repurchased? JBL 4311. C.S.I., the soffit or bridge mounts with 2 6" woofers | |
| 1st full tube amp Oldchen EL34 I'm on my second Chinese amp. The first, Music Angle 6n1p, class A, sounded good. It was even better after a capacitor & pre-amp tube replacement (7199 for whatever came with it). An unqualified American tech killed it. The second is a Sophia ... | |
| Direct Drive Direct drive's "rumble", which is almost unmeasureable, always trumps belt drive's speed instability and having to replace the damn belts. | |
| Looking for good recordings of female vocals I have not yet tried... Look for anything Ivie Anderson recorded in the studio with Ellington. The material was recorded by guys who wore ties to work. | |
| Questionable Tweak Bayliner - Can you hear the difference between red beans and black beans? | |
| The greatest tweak ever? We spent an afternoon setting up to record a b.f.d. organ and chorus recital. Sound check was great! We went to dinner (stayed sober) and it rained. Thank God for the second touch-up rehearsal - everything changed with relative humidity. | |
| When a budget speaker is preferred to a high end one... Does anyone out there listen to the Sophia speakers? I have a remarkably good-sounding pair of unlabeled speakers purchased in China when living there. They look suspiciously like the Sophia product. | |
| Have you ever solved a high end audio issue using non-audio technology? Or, visa versa? Tissue to tame excessively spitty tweeters. First recognized as a "Yamaha NSM 10" mod. | |
| Isn't it really about quality of recording? A friend and fellow recording engineer once said "Digital lets you hear the engineering mistakes much better than analog". I've heard magnificent Hot 7 remasters and crappy new work on several what to me are pretty good systems. Always remember:... | |
| Sophia Electric is not honest The decorative metal plate came off my early Sophia EL 34 A/B amplifier. The excellent tech at Pro-Tech Services, Bob, recommended I not put it back on, even with Gorilla glue. If the conductive decoration has slipped even a little lots of pins w... |