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| You are there vs. They are there Can someone recommend some albums they feel presents music in the 'they are here' form? Thanks. | |
| just wanted to share my fix for making my speakers cat and grand kid proof! Never thought of that. May have to give it a try so I can pull out the Maggies for a change (have cats). Thank you. | |
| Aging ears and Nuances "Sounds good enough" gets tossed around a bunch in my listening room nowadays. Just turned 60, hearing up to about 13K, and the mundane idiotic minutia of minute differences in sound quality (which used to get my pecker up) bore me to tears anymor... | |
| ??? Which Would You Buy ??? I'd go for the cheaper of the choices. Unless your room is treated, the rest of your gear truly revealing, and your listening sessions are all of the "critical" type, you won't notice the 15% difference in sound. It'll still sound good and you'l... | |
| Room Treatment Help My room is somewhat similar (13x14) and have got 11 GIK 244s (some with the wood things on the front - I forget what they're called) and other just bass traps. Two stacked in each front corner, three along the front wall in the middle, two at the ... | |
| Can single ended 211 or 212 amplifiers drive magnepan 20.7? I don't know about the 20.7, but the Cary 805's drove my 1.7 just fine in a small (13x14) listening room just fine. A few caveats: I don't listen too loud, probably 85dBl or so max and my musical tastes aren't that demanding (mainly Jazz). | |
| op amp rolling Hey, johnnybwood. Sorry for the late response. I hav the V3 Monos. With them, you only need to swap out the opamps in the RCA circuit if you're using RCA. Like others, I paid more for the opamps than I did for the amps. But like I said before,... | |
| op amp rolling I also have the Fosi monos and have upgraded the op amps to the SparkoS brand. For balanced, you’ll need two op amps per mono and not three. Three if you’re also swapping out the op amp for the RCA input. I don’t recall the improvements I heard a... | |
| I can live with this. Here's my story about a pair of de Capo i's I had about 20 years back. At the time I was living in Germany and my listening room was a rather large (apx 18x20 or so) basement with concrete walls. System consisted of an Audio Research CD2, Rogue ... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? I don't. But sysstem envy of others' gear/listening rooms, I've certainly had my share of. | |
| HAVE CABLES EVER TAKEN YOUR SYSTEM FROM SOUNDING JUST OK TO SOUNDING GREAT? Experiences ? In my experience, the improvements, if any, were very subtle at best. But noticeable on my test tracks. Or I at least thought I heard a difference. But since I don't recall doing a blind A/B with previous cables I'm not 100% sure it wasn't me just... | |
| Revisiting Chinese Knockoff Cables I think all of my cabling now (RAC, XLR and PC) are pretty much knock-offs. Mainly the Odin Golds and some Odins. Purple Nordost knock-offs, as well. Original cabling I have consist of a few A+ Silvers (RCA, speakers and PC), Acoustic Zen Krakato... | |
| Leave it on? Like many, I leave ss gear on 24/7, unless i'm going out of town for some time. Tubed gear gets turned on for listening, then off at the end of the evening. The only exception to this is the Aleph 2's I own. Those generate so much heat in my smal... | |
| Have you reached your end point with this addictive hobby? I’ve reached the point where I’m bored with audio gear. Have a room full of excesses, like 20 pairs of speakers, a few amps and preamps, etc. and the excitement I used to feel when I saw all my gear is pretty much gone. Trying to downsize, but th... | |
| What is a "reference" system? IMO, a “reference” system is just the one you have that you compare any new component, cable, footer, etc to. If you have multiple systems, it’ll typically be the one you’ve put the most time into getting it to sound the best to you. Each of u... |