artizen65
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| Is my setup mid-fi or hi-fi? Since there seems to be no distinction between mid-fi and hi-fi on this forum I will just keep my stuff and go home :-). Ok for a CDP a Rega Planet might be in order. Or there was a $100.00 CDP reviewed over on audio asylum that was getting rave r... | |
| Very Small Desktop Speakers I will chime in with the DynAudio Audience 42. Not exactly cheep ($766.00 in Cherry) but execelent for the application I use mine at work with the Denon UD-M31 receiver. | |
| New Construction Acoustic Design & Consulting Mike,My mistake, you are correct my comments were ment for DBK. | |
| New Construction Acoustic Design & Consulting Mike,IMHO After reading everything. There has been some good advise.I just wanted to touch on few things. I would qwestion a floating floor due to lack of coupling between the sub-floor the floating floor and the speakers. Consider sloaping the wa... | |
| Your First System 1985, I feel like I am in the middle.1 Boom Box (Panasonic)1 Phono Pre (Radio Shack)1 TT (Technics I Think. The cartridge came with the table)1987 Ok for the first real seperate system.NAD ReceiverSame TTTechnics Dual Cassett Deck (Model?) I still... | |
| solid state gear- leave on? Eldartford, KevziekLet's see Missiles and tollerance. Then we have Millitary communications and crypto gear. Why did we (I haven't been in for a quite a while) always leave our gear on. Some of the finest gear in the world from a design stand poin... | |
| solid state gear- leave on? Samuell,Having been in the electronics field for a number of years. Sean is on the money. The on/off switch is harder on the equipment than years of leaving the equipment on.Remember to take the system as a whole. | |
| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers Krazeeyk,IMHO there is no set point as to what to spend on what. With 5K to spend. You can put together a sweet system SS or tubes. There are a few speakers in the 750-1500 (DynAudio) range that would easlilly foot the bill. That leaves 3500-4250 ... | |
| To much wattage for B & W 805s ?? Jeffjarvis,Ok I will be a little more specific. The B&W Floor standers are power hungry. The Monitors usually do fine with tubes.Michael | |
| To much wattage for B & W 805s ?? Classical1I agree with Rushton. The most important thing to remember is that it needs to be clean power. Distortion is more damaging than any of the dynamics in the music will be. I will reiderate that caution with your volume knob should still sh... | |
| How important are transports? Scrith,I didn't say that timing was not important or the total problem. I said as long as the one's and zero's are there. In the case of reclocking the signal it gets more complicated than that. There is a reason we use stratum clocks in the telle... | |
| How important are transports? 1's and 0's are one's and zero's if they are all there. I own the MF TriVista Dac and the transport made all the difference in the world. | |
| mixing tube and solid state amps Larryrosen,I was talking to a friend to day about bi-amping using tubes for the mids highs. His first response was make sure that the speed of the tube amp matches the SS amp.Michael | |
| Words From the Wise Lots of good advise so far.1A) Patience.1B) Patience.1C) Patience.1D) Patience.1E) Patience.Ok now that the most important issue is out of the way.2) Educate yourself in how and what to listen for in music. The Artist and Sound Engineer don't give... | |
| Know of a book on audio basics? Marco,If I ever stop laughing I have a library to add to.Michael |