Posts by Barry

This seems like one of those "duck and cover" questions to me. There is a whole school of thought that favors thin, solid core wire. And other schools look for complicated stranded cables. As for myself, I think that it may...

Sold him K1000 and a Cayin amp. After some PMs to work out the arrangement, we met did the sale. He is a good communicator and followed through.

Here are pictures. I can email less compressed images if you would like to see them Thank you Barry

These are in excellent shape. Sounds great and no cosmetic blemishes that I can see. They come with the light colored wood box, original packing, the original wires, converter to regular headphone jack, and an additional extension...

You might think about the audio technica cm700 buds. They are skewed towards the high end of the frequency spectrum. While your dad probably does hear well, many middle aged and older folks have high frequency loss. Symptoms include...

I wish that I was as smart as you are about exploring and choosing among alternative directions. Most of my education and career choices were opportunistic and somewhat accidental. I regret that I did little to be systematic and...

I had the previous version of the Classic and while it was clean sounding, it just did not sound like music to me. The Sony was more engaging. The question that I have is how you separated the effect of the EQ from the Amp. Is it not...

I don't know if the sony is overpriced, but I auditioned both the x series and the S9 over a period of a week at home with the same music and ended up keeping the S9. The music had more texture and flow. The sony also sounded very...

While a formal education or degree is not the only way to obtain knowledge about a subject, it does serve as a valuable quality control and does significantly increase the probability that the person offering the knowledge knows what he...

I can't recall anybody writing that the S9 sounded colored with no soundstage. As for myself, I chose it because it sounded less colored and had a wider, more airy soundstage than the Sony X series. I will say that the Sony was a very...