Recent content by ALTMAN

I understand how McIntosh can be a religion with some folks but a hint of midbass fullness doe not equate to bloat. The fullness is not based upon poor control of sources as I used a customized Studer a700 with Mark Levinson electronics and a Linn CD12 with material where I was present during...

I'm thinking a set of Spires is in the cards for you... Happy new year... I'll add someone like TONEPUB has much more exposure to the full range of ML so hopefully he'll weigh in... I really value his opinion though I disagree with virtually everything he writes.:ROFL:

Actually I have experience with both lines of amps. The McIntosh will be a bit easier to listen to than the new gen Linn amps. The new gen Linn amps will tend to run hot but for any given power rating they will seem to have more power than the McIntosh. I would not choose the Linn...

I'm not so sure what Tonepub was trying to prove by putting a $5,000 cartridge on a Rega 9. It has been my experience that your money is better spent on a superlative turntable and arm before you even approach $5,000 cartridges. As far as vinyl quality is concerned I have a small collection of...

Thanks so much for posting this...

We just have a different view on life... Hifi is much cheaper than racehorses or a vineyard and with real estate getting cheaper everyday I can buy the building housing the store and sell it at a profit if I grow tired of the hifi business. The issue really becomes whether one can turn a...

Twitch I like your style. I am actually considering opening a friendly high end store just for the fun of putting all the competitors in town out of business. 1. High paid salary only salesmen 2. Big multiroom showroom 3. Free in home demos 4. Free installation 5. Liberal trade-ins 6...

Great point on the x-over. Its almost like the audiophiles need tactical air support to shame these manufacturers into properly packaging their products. ML clearly dont want to open this can of worms since active loudspeakers are a marketing disaster. Some dealers would claim the CLX...

My big move this year was to unpack my virtually new pr of CLS --- I'm still working on what amp sounds the best with them so that will become my 2009plan. I'm the original owner of the CLS but I never really had a chance to hear them when they were new. I also bought a Depthi to go with them.

Not that I am an apologist for Singer but I have never had a bad experience at Singer and I've only bought one amplifier and a record cleaning machine over the years. While I'm sure to draw criticism, one of the failings of the industry is to equate hifi to the worlds of cars, watches...

The cash, snapshot at a point in time, is public knowledge for 2 of the three companies --- To my knowledge the companies have not shared the run rate information with the general public. In fact, the transcripts of the Congressional testimony showed the manufacturers were not in a position to...

I guess my point is you dont know what Chrysler's cash position is and even if it is low why would you bail it out since it represents roughly 8% of the economic activity of their parent company. If you know the cash position of each company in question and the burn rate let me know since I...

Bailout Chrysler From what I can tell the average person whose employment affords them the opportunity to build a system around Martin Logans is in favor of bailing out Chrysler. This is in the face of the fact that Chrysler is owned by a successful private equity company where all the top...

To timm's point the lower tier labor costs is a drop in the bucket. Currently the market assigns a value of 5.29Billion combined between Ford and GM. The combined burn rate of Ford and GM is multiples of this value hence the first 25 Billion. Think of it this way ... suppose you had a...

Just curious --- do most people know Chrysler is owned by Cerberus...Recently cerberus changed their website with the result that it is more difficult for you to understand that if you bailout Chrysler you are bailing out Danforth Quayle and his buddy John W. Snow. Quayle and Cerberus are so...