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| Your most disappointing purchase or audition? Several years back I drove 100 miles to hear the Aerial 7Ts. I went expecting to buy. Very disappointing. I auditioned Magnepan 3.7Rs the same day. They ran circles around the 7Ts. | |
| Which dig source,passive front-end,ICs,amp combo? Don't know what your budget is, but I can tell you that i have found the older 6SN7 Modwright digital sources to be passive friendly. Not sure about the 6922 designs. Ask Dan. Having said that, I'm not sure any source is going to give you the dyna... | |
| Where for a tube-newb to start? Let me take a stab at providing some useful info. As a start, GZ34 and 5Ar4 are different designations for the same tube. It is a rectifier tube. The most popular old tube from the glory days were Millard GZ34 tube made at the Blackburn plant in E... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Mitch, Macs using iTunes don't rip to flac, although they can if one uses other software. Downloads in flac are no problem. I have a few albums transferred in wav, but the vast majority are in aiff, which is similar to wav in that it is not compre... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Thanks Mitch, will do. The cd drive on my iMac stopped working yesterday, so I won't be doing any new transfers until I get it fixed. I guess I can struggle along with the 793 albums transferred so far until I can get if fixed. I've listened to th... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Knghifi, good to hear you find my ramblings useful. I don't know enough about ee to second guess Dan's designs. I only know what my ears tell me. The MW HAPZ1 is a very good digital source. Sure wish we had more to choose from on DSD downloads.I s... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Another week, I'm now up to about 750 albums on the hard drive. There have been a couple more very pleasant surprises this week. As I indicated in the last update, time to begin to work through Haydn and Mozart. Working through the Haydn string qu... | |
| VH Audio CHeLA? The only way to find out is to try them and see. For what it is worth, I will echo the comments of the other VH Audio customers. Top notch goods at a price that is more than fair.If you go with the Chelas, please let us all know how they do for yo... | |
| Followup-Magnepan 1.7s in a 10x13' dedicated room? Zd, I have no way of proving the improvement is time coherence. The person who suggested this to me explained it that way, and it made sense, so I just accepted the statement. With the right equipment, one could evaluate any change in frequency re... | |
| Followup-Magnepan 1.7s in a 10x13' dedicated room? Zd, I used this technique with both the 1.6s and the 3.7s. This technique does not roll off the high end, which would more likely occur by turning or tilting as you suggested. What this technique does is reduce the time smear from an individual dr... | |
| Followup-Magnepan 1.7s in a 10x13' dedicated room? Zd, yes we wandered a bit. However, if the OP is able to use stands that permit tilting the panels to achieve a perpendicular from the mid point of the panels to his ear when seated, it will improve the sound. Other than that, nada. Just an intere... | |
| Followup-Magnepan 1.7s in a 10x13' dedicated room? Bombawalla, thanks for sharing this info. I had not heard this idea, and I must admit it makes perfect sense and is probably a contributing complication. I have used Mye stands with both the 1.6s and 3.7s, and have found that the ability to tilt t... | |
| Followup-Magnepan 1.7s in a 10x13' dedicated room? Rhanson, I can't emphasize enough that in my room, though it has very plush carpeting, Maggies were a no go without treating the back corners floor to ceiling with auralex panels. I glued them to blue board insulation, covered them with fabric, an... | |
| Followup-Magnepan 1.7s in a 10x13' dedicated room? Linesource, on the recordings that were bright, try the tweeters on the inside and see if that helps. Ultimately, floor to ceiling treatment of the corners behind the speakers may also help tame any brightness. I've been doing Maggies for 24 years... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners 140 hours of burn in. Last night, I listened to Das Reingold and the new Venzago Bruckner 8. French horns were particularly lovely in both of these recordings, and I would say this is the first time I began to hear horns as I would like them to be... |