big_katydid
Responses from big_katydid
| Wharfedale Linton Heritage 85th Anniversary @tjmpark I heard the forte III at axpona, wish I could have heard the heresy iii also (there too) but couldn’t really get a sense of what they can do due to unfamiliarity with the track played. As for ’flavors’ and not to derail from the thread I ... | |
| Wharfedale Linton Heritage 85th Anniversary @jbhiller. 'not the most accurate'. I'm at the point where I'm eliminating the idea of 'improving' my audio and simply thinking I'd rather have 3, maybe 4 boxes to swap out, each about 2K but each doing something different, each with a strength bu... | |
| Wharfedale Linton Heritage 85th Anniversary @jbhiller I found the sound of the linton to be accessible for want of a better term, at least for those recordings, one thing I'd have to check for on any relisten was any fatigue, I didn't notice anything unpleasant at the time. They are a lot ... | |
| Wharfedale Linton Heritage 85th Anniversary I heard them at axpona (told they were to be available May, and indeed they are!) and found at least for the two tracks played that they were very engaging and yes, fun. I found myself enjoying what I heard and one of those cases where you wonder ... | |
| Axpona reviewers perceptions and reality For me two systems held my attention in part because I knew they were small, affordable and simple: the parasound with buchardt 400 and the wharfedale linton/quad. The buchardt was playing some unfamiliar jazz and to my ears it just seemed coheren... | |
| Axpona 2019 as my second audio show in 30 years I did enjoy axpona but I'd probably not go again unless I was specifically wanting to hear a speaker that I was seriously interested in buying and was otherwise unable to audition (i live close so could consider... | |
| Tekton Design's new THE PERFECT SET equals "goosebumps time" I’ve been interested in hearing tekton for some time and was hoping they would be at axpona this year. I noticed Zu (another direct sales and another I'd love to hear) was listed but the room (at least on the Friday) only had their carts? Hopefull... | |
| Ugrade-itis - is there a cure? I do wonder how much upgradeitis is simple the need for novelty and change like in any hobby collection. I know that I could quite easily upgrade my system but I have toyed with the idea of having several loudspeakers that have entirely different ... | |
| The Harbeth phenomenon I have the Harbeth C7es3 which I bought precisely for the reputation of low fatigue. On average I find they are not optimal for electronic music (and I am pursuing a second set of speakers that will optimize for that style) but I find that they wo... | |
| Axpona 2019 I've not been to an audio show in almost 3 decades so was a bit overwhelmed and only had 3 hours to make sense of things. I decided that I was going to simply see which rooms automatically engaged me with the music played, I imagine the type of mu... | |
| How quiet is your Rogue Sphinx? To go a bit further. I did feel a bit burned with the noise issue on the amp, Rogue suggested it was a product of implementing valves and class D, unfortunately my dealer had a no return policy after home demonstrations, I did not notice it until ... | |
| How quiet is your Rogue Sphinx? I have yet to purchase a replacement amplifier, for the time being I am using some pro equipment to run my speakers. Jspively, apparently the original version sphinx does have this noise issue, some may not object but in comparison to say a NAD 36... | |
| How quiet is your Rogue Sphinx? A late follow through to this thread. I did unfortunately abandon the sphinx primarily because of the noise issue, I feel it is an otherwise competent unit but that level of noise was simply unacceptable, a sub $1000 NAD unit by comparison was pra... | |
| DAC as an attenuator? thanks for the responses all. Definitely something to consider to reduce gain at the preamp input. Despite my amps quoted 1V input sensitivity I still find some CD's get 'shouty' at around the 8:30 position on the amp and at that point anything lo... | |
| DAC as an attenuator? EDIT: that would be HIGH sensitivity line inputs. |