alexberger

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Classical Vinyl Series
The Real McCoy - "Search For Peace" - "Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series"https://youtu.be/ZFREN4UMGMQ 
Speaker sensitivity vs SQ
I'm completely agreed with @realworldaudio.High sensitivity speakers give much more real music reproduction.The low sensitive speakers, even big and expensive like Wilson Audio, Dynaudio,... have artificial bass reproduction and sound not alive. E... 
Classical Vinyl Series
I think the drawback of the new reissue is it sounds less vivid versus old issues. Older issues sound more energetic with more drive. 
Classical Vinyl Series
Hi @ihcho ,I use Sony HDR MV1 music video recorder.Regards,Alex 
New to analog
Lenco L70, L75, L78 with heavy plinth and better tonarm.I had heavy plinth (50 pound, birch plywood) Lenco L78 with vintage SME 3009 tonearm and it beated hand down Nottingham Analogue Spacedeck with Spacearm tonearm.Lenco has much more accurate p... 
Speaker sensitivity vs SQ
Hi @atmasphere ,There are a lot of examples when amplifier has mixed SE and PP stages.For example some SET amplifiers have first stage SRPP and PP amplifiers have SE first stage before phase spliter.Another example - SE preamp and PP amplifiers.Do... 
Speaker sensitivity vs SQ
@mijostyn ,Maybe I'm missing something.I have a resistor attached on chassis of my phonostage. The chassis is on open rack and good ventilated and it is much bigger than any voice coil. The power dissipated on this resistor just 8 Watt. And this p... 
Speaker sensitivity vs SQ
Hi @clearthinker ,The low sensitive speakers sound boring because they eat microdynamics that exist at live performance. They are simply much less musical. The audio business (producers, sellers, reviewers) cheat you and sell you cheaper stuff as ... 
Speaker sensitivity vs SQ
Hi @clearthinker ,The problem is because high efficiency speakers today are rare a very few audiophile had opportunity to listen good implemented system with high efficiency speakers.The other factor is the average high efficiency speakers are mor... 
Speaker sensitivity vs SQ
@mijostyn ,How can you cool the driver voice coil if you need 100 watts to listen to it at normal volume?Even if you put a dedicated fan it wouldn't help!In contrast if you need just 5 watt, you don't have this problem even with the most straightf... 
Speaker sensitivity vs SQ
The thermal distortions in speakers and transistors have inertia and therefore are a heavier burden on our brain than conventional non-linear distortions.In addition, changing the impedance of the speakers changes the frequency of the speaker filt... 
Spendor D9.2 vs Proac D48r
The lack of the needed break-in time can be an issue on a show.  I drew attention to an interesting fact on Montreal show. Some dealers have a good sound in their room every year, other dealers have a bad sound in their room every year. They chang... 
Speaker sensitivity vs SQ
@audio2design , Thank you for the link to the article.It is so sad that most audiophiles don't care about this one of the most important characteristics for speakers SQ.High efficient designs sound more alive, with better texture, micro and macro... 
Spendor D9.2 vs Proac D48r
Harbeth HL5 
Spendor D9.2 vs Proac D48r
Why do you consider Spendor D series?Why don't Spendor Classical series or Harbeth?I like Spendor Classical and  Harbeth sound.I heard Spendor D9 and D7 at Montreal audio show and was deeply disappointed by their scratchy, not natural sound.