213cobra
Responses from 213cobra
| Zu on Zu Gregm,Yeah, no kidding, a speaker doesn't get tested on a bench. It was an expression. Been there. Point is, it's not a legit test of what a buyer should expect if you test under conditions that don't allow the speaker to operate with all its desi... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? Some people believe Mono is the highest fidelity medium. I don't. Well-made stereo works with human spatial perception in a way mono nearly completely lacks. Monaural can have terrific tone, but its lack of dimension is too extreme to offer balanc... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? No, Cdw, you're missing my point. Taking one accurate driver and adding another is revealing the error between them. Then do it again, and again, and again, and you begin to have slightly distinct voices. Clarity and tone are the casualties. There... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? Ideally, one builds a system, 2C or otherwise, that does not "add" tone to a recording that doesn't have it, nor delete tone from a recording that does. Certainly, I build my systems that way.Of course, fidelity is a function of a whole system. A ... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? Cdw,I happen use triodes now in my amplification but I have no fanaticism about that topology. With 101db/w/m effciency in my speakers, my big 845 triode power goes pretty far. But it's not all I'm willing to listen to. I also love, for instance, ... | |
| Zu on Zu The Griewe model is essential to Druid bass performance. I'm not hearing a 150Hz dip corresponding to the graph. Yes, classical music has a lot going on there, and in my room it's all present and accounted for on Druids.The FRD doesn't derive its ... | |
| Zu on Zu Yeah, Kana, I can't see that graph or the article well enough to know how the graph was derived. Suffice to say that you can't just wire a Druid up on a bench and measure it without knowing how to set it up.What it behaves and sounds like is plent... | |
| McIntosh SS Amps - Old vs New - Sonics I heard a 6300 recently, but not in a comparative situation with a known reference, nor a room and gear I know. I didn't hear anything at variance with the current McIntosh solid state sound, but it is not as tone-rich as the autoformer amps, IMO.... | |
| Zu on Zu Drubin,The reason it takes some people an extended period of time to adapt to Zu speakers on first listen is the necessity to unlearn much of what you have been conditioned to accept. Most people -- most audio consumers -- haven't ever heard a pha... | |
| Zu on Zu Bartok, Kana,The Soundstage response graph on Druids is inaccurate, bogus really. They adhered to a Canadian measurement standard that required the speaker to be suspended in mid-air. Zu sought an exception from the standard because the Druid requ... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? It's not accurate to say that 20.2 had "everything except fidelity, in my opinion." It had novelty, it had effects. It wasn't absent any sense of fidelity, but it had much less fidelity than 2C. I was listening to something evangelized as an advan... | |
| McIntosh SS Amps - Old vs New - Sonics The 7200 was one of the transitional amps, better than than what preceded it. It was part of a line of amps that signalled change at McIntosh and a broadening of their appeal. An MC402 has more of everything you like about the 7200 and none of wha... | |
| Zu on Zu Barktok,No, Zu speakers are not exclusively directed at the low-wattage tube amp user. The high efficiency and easy drive characteristics may be ideal for that, but these speakers have a power-handling capability that is just about unique to the g... | |
| McIntosh SS Amps - Old vs New - Sonics I've heard Mac 402, 501 on Zu Definitions in my own system, and 252, 402, 501, 1201 on a system I am familiar with using Sonus Faber Cremonas. I've also heard the MA6900 integrated on both, as well as on a system with Sonus Faber Cremona Auditors.... | |
| Pick your poison...2-channel or multi? Cdw,"....IYO..." ???I don't know "IYO" and until I do, I can't answer your question.Phil |