Hi Everyone, Sorry about the delay in getting back to people about the free broken stuff. I was a bit overwhelmed by the number of responses. I am currently sending back emails to the first several people to respond, starting with wnmnkh. Safe to say that everything is taken now. Thanks...

Cleaning out my closets. found some equipment that is broken and probably not worth fixing. However, some of you clever DIY people would probably want this stuff and I would love to give it to you! Free, but you pay shipping at cost. Local people willing to pick this stuff up in Seattle have...

I have owned a Rotel RDD 980 transport and have used a pioneer DV-525, and a Sony dvp s7000 as transports. I currently use an Audio Alchemy DDS Pro dedicated I2S transport with my Modwright P3A. In my experience, the transport makes a subtle difference in sound, but makes the least audable...

Holy crap, you guy are still going on about this? Haha! From what I understand, most of the distortion in in an Analog LP is additive, that is, surface noise some bits of fuzzyness, added harmonics, etc. Most of the original information is down there in the grooves along with this...

I just started posting stuff yesterday. I hadn't been to the HeadFi site in months. Sign me up for the next meet. When is it?

Mark levinson is extremely high quality solid state. I used to own a Proceed AMP2, which kind of a poor man's mark levinson amp. it was dynamic and clean, but in combination with the martin logans I had at the time, it was a little to hard sounding. I later switched to a Mccormack DNA 1 dlx...

You have excellent equipment. I am not familiar with your TEAC, but I suspect the the rest of your system is outperforming your CD player. In my experience, most japanese players just don't have their DAC's set up right. I have personally never found a japansese player that I like except for...

Just for the record, Although I prefer solid state for stax phones, I run my dynamic phones through an MG Head DT, and my amp on my main system is a tube Conrad Johnson Premier 11a. Contrary to popular belief, staxes are not cold sounding, even when powered by solid state. The MG head DT...

This is tough to say, they do all have a family resemblance in sound, but the frequency balance varies alot. The older Lambda Pro Sigs had a tipped up mid treble that sounded a bit hard at times. That's one of the things they changed with the newer models. The Bass quality is also quite...

I replaced my MG Head DT tubes with yugoslavian Ei tubes. Sounds much improved.

I currently own a Stax 3030 classic II (solid state) system and love it. In the past I have owned a set of Lambda Pro Signatures with an SRM T1 (tube), as well as a Lambda Basic set. I have also extensively auditoned the current 4040 set. I will say this though, the staxes do have their own...

Probably not a good set of phones to wear while doing anything else. I have the 3030 classic II system. The headset is large and a little unwieldy. It doesn't stay put on your head very well if you move alot. (No headbanging!) For casual listening I would suggest something else

Getting an outboard DAC shuld fix most of the problem. Also, new cables often sound more forgiving once they are broken in. Oftentimes they are very detailed but somehard sounding in the treble area until they are broken in. I used to have an AA DDE 3.0. It was a good sounding unit in stock...

They made really good cassette decks and moderatly good turntables back in the 70's and 80's, but their speakers and receivers/amps were always substandard, but looked great. They invented dolby HX (they licensed it to Dolby) and their Phono cartriges were really high quality, much higher...

I have heard a story that Jack Bybee took a pair of interconnects to a Stereophile show in new york and wowed the press comparing them to interconnects costing in some cases thousands of dollars. As it turns out, the interconnects were $30 entry level cables with a set of Bybees soldered inline...