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| Tannoy Speaker Owners @oldschool1948,"I've given him my NAD M12 pre/dac w/ BluOS module, M22v2 amp, vintage Technics SL-1600MK2 TT, and vintage DCM TimeWindow 3 speakers."Good man!That's possibly the most heart-warming thing I've read here on Audiogon. Well in that cas... | |
| So What Is Real? @hombre,"A long time ago Julian Hirsch founder of "Stereo Review" set up a test in which he invited twenty experienced high-end audiophiles to audition a very expensive high end system. Mark Levinson, Linn Sondek TT, Dahlquist, etc. Over 10K in ge... | |
| So What Is Real? @hombre, "On a completely unrelated note I have compared CD with 320 kbs AAC and after switching back and forth for a while I had to realize I couldn’t tell the difference. And my system is pretty good. Schiit Vidar amp, Maggie LRS speakers, Oppo ... | |
| Tannoy Speaker Owners @oldschool1948, The key sentence for me is "The NAD pushes the Tannoy’s with ease."I have used Tannoys with different amps (all solid state unfortunately) and the sound was always similar. My previous NAD 3020 and current Creek Destiny amps are di... | |
| Has all decency left the entire planet? @schubert , I understand your discomfort but the unfortunate truth is that human beings have been squabbling over resources (land, people, and valuable commodities etc - oil is the current big one now) since day 1. You only have to look at militar... | |
| How do you audition speakers at a store? @bhakhti-rider, my speakers are large and heavy but still... I like your suggestion. I can't recall anyone suggesting something so obviously sensible before. Especially if you intend to spend a serious amount of money.This combined with prof's 'hu... | |
| How do you audition speakers at a store? Make a test tracks CDR as it saves a lot of time swapping discs (you could also stream a playlist).In this way you can listen to familiar tracks which can represent issues you are most concerned with.For example,1 Track 1 could be a spoken / audio... | |
| Has all decency left the entire planet? @schubert, "the Hell of colonialism" can often eventually be seen as a good thing.It takes time of course, often a lot of time. I think I'm still in the minority here in the UK who are truly grateful for the kick up the backsides we received at th... | |
| Which material sounds better for speakers construction? Wood, Ply or MDF? There are some who still feel that using MDF alone in a traditional cabinet is a tonal midrange killer. So naturally enough many other options have been explored, all usually costing far more than the readily available and cheap to work with MDF. ... | |
| Anyone done A / B listening to compare vintage stereo receivers with today’s Amps/Preamps? @ndevamp,Great informative post! When it comes to amplifiers I must have been lucky to have never suffered with reliability issues. Not with my NAD 3020, nor with my various Naim amps. The Naim 32.5 / 110 appeared to be more or less bomb proof.Yet... | |
| Has all decency left the entire planet? @schubert , it’s good to hear that Germany has survived Angela Merkel.Due to recent democratic reform almost 50% of young Britains now enter higher education. 40 years ago it was around 3%.This increased freedom to advance career prospects through... | |
| Anyone done A / B listening to compare vintage stereo receivers with today’s Amps/Preamps? @echolane, there are some who say that amplifier technology matured as long ago as 1960 - give or take a few subtle tonal variations thereafter.The only thing of possible concern might be the power rating - but this usually depends upon upon louds... | |
| Has all decency left the entire planet? Parenting is easy. In theory. You just have to get your children from birth to adulthood where they will be able to meet all the various demands for a successful existence.1 Understand how their environment works2 How their bodies work3 How to get... | |
| Has all decency left the entire planet? It’s obviously too late for the person(s) responsible for this but it does increasingly look like educational strategies need to be looked again at with fresh eyes - especially in light of the tremendous changes we have seen in the last 25 years o... | |
| What is wrong with audiophiles? @agrippa, "For maybe the first 10-15 years of my audiophile "career" I heard differences between anything and everything. Cable lifters, signal cables, speaker cables, power cables, isolation devices, that green CD pen, you name it. I heard the di... |