213cobra
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| spendor 3/5 vs era vs avi vs vienna acoustics hayd I like both the Spendor S3/5 and the Vienna Haydn. The Spendor is the more accurate of the two, revealing and analytically penetrating. The Haydn is the more euphonic. Based on your criteria noted, The Haydn is likely more satisfying to you than t... | |
| Direct Drive Rumble I've owned Linn, Transcriptors, Thorens, VPI, Pink Triangle, Mission, Systemdeck, Kenwood, Sony and maybe even some other belt drive turntables since the early 1970s. I was socialized in my early hifi days to prefer belt drive turntables. But some... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? Cdw,Hmm...unprocessed multichannel. Then it dawned on me. Are you a proponent of the Kimber 4.0 technique using Isomike recording? Is that your dogma, your specific MC bliss?Phil | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? CDw,So...you don't like Sonus Faber huh? Perhaps you never heard them with the right amp. You can buy the speaker at Magnolia, but you can't buy an amp there that drives them properly. No matter. I didn't buy them either. Whether you think a Mange... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? "There are more channels handled in the same way as the two in stereo." Well, there is that little defect too. How many multi-channel schemes are there? There's a reason every one of them requires a processor somewhere in the chain. Stereo puts it... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? CDw,Tannoy, check. Years ago. Cabasse check. Menger, check. Bastani, check. Some of these do very well in certain respects and all are toneful speakers. Not much I haven't investigated and heard. I have a lot of "ins." I ended up completely outsid... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? CDw,The holistic presentation of music from 2C, that I cited, exists for anyone careful enough to build a system and set it up to attain it. Your perception of this benefit appears to be absent, perhaps constrained by the limits of 2C systems you'... | |
| Zu on Zu Smeyers,I don't think anyone here means to offend. So if you can cite one or more posts or comments from Zu owners that could be inferred as "arrogant and demeaning" by readers of a Zu thread, please do so and the group will know what to avoid, th... | |
| Zu on Zu Dave,I didn't say ANYTHING about you. I made an observation. 40 years ago when I started paying attention to this hobby, the incidence or percentage of audiophiles who were well informed of the sound of live unamplified instruments was higher than... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? CDw,Nothing on the market sounds like a Zu speaker. Honestly. Whether you like them or not, Zu speakers are their own thing. So I am quite certain you have not heard "my type of system." Don't presume that if you heard a Lowther or Fostex FRD loud... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? Yes, Cdw, every speaker that uses massed drivers has the same problem I outlined. It only gets worse with many speakers, and is containable with just two.Yes, my speaker is better for a lot of reasons, but its not exlusive. You can have then too. ... | |
| Zu on Zu Onhwy61,I think you confuse offense and defense. Zu owners are engaging the market with what we've learned, not defending decisions already made.You presume too much if you think that design preferences determine what I like in audio gear. I appro... | |
| Zu on Zu Onhwy61,No, it's not nonsense. Your dismissal is. First, it's less and less common for audiophiles to actually know what real instruments sound like. More and more people in this hobby are short on or even bereft of significant experience listenin... | |
| Best headphones you've ever heard/used Best headphone to date: The original Jecklin Float.Phil | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? Cdw,I don't have circa 1920 SET amps. And my speakers are phase-coherent. Obviously you don't know about my system. When you do, the conversation can improve.The static measurements of drivers do not capture their actual behavior in dynamic use, a... |