cd318
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| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? @gawdbless, if you wanted to be really naughty you could also throw in a straightened coat hanger, some $1 per metre oxygen free cable and then see what happens.Strangely enough, no high end cable manufacturer ever seems game for the challenge. No... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? All these from the head of one man -And I meet you at the cemetry gates Keats and Yeats are on your side But you lose Because well the love of Wilde is on mineI dreamt about you last nightAnd I fell out of bed twicePark the car at the side of the ... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? @audiokinesis, good point. Guess that's one of the reasons why some rooms are deemed good and others not (along with any obvious bass resonance modes). How much life/ reflected sound you want in a room will always be a matter of personal choice. I... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? @almarg thanks for the update. I do like the Sinatra and Robeson versions but Judy's version is the one that sticks. By the time she recorded it she had certainly been through some difficult times.Anyway, speaking of Mr Robeson. Here's my favouri... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? So many versions but this is the one by Judy GarlandOl' man river, that ol' man riverHe must know somethin', but he don't say nothin'He just keeps rollin'He keeps on rollin' alongHe don't plant taters, he don't plant cottonAn' them that plants' 'e... | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? So, so many. But here's a couple to start with: 'The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people going by'and this one from a great song by a great lyricist:'You made me forget myselfI thought I wasSomeone else, some... | |
| Turntable isolation Springs or sorbothane can both be brilliant at isolating the turntable from resonances but only within a fairly narrow movement/frequency band. Project and Roksan have both successfully used sorbothane/rubber decoupling for years but neither would... | |
| How do you move HEAVY speakers with sharp spikes without lifting? One obvious answer is to remove the spikes altogether. I've yet to hear a speaker that sounded worse without spikes.Failing that, another vote for Herbie's Decoupling Gliders,http://herbiesaudiolab.net/spkrfeet.htm#cone | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? @ nakdoc, Hi! Yes it's fair to say that all speakers must either be adding or subtracting to timbre (assuming a completely neutral speaker doesn't exist).So far we have many recommendations and suggestions for the all of the following:Devore Fidel... | |
| Does hearing the best in high end audio make your opinions more valid? @harrylavo, thank you for your considered advice. Whether I can follow it all I don't know but I will keep it in mind because it's everything I'd want this forum to be. | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? ProAcs are getting a few mentions. I've only heard the Future One's many years ago but they did sound good to me on the end of some Marantz gear. It was at a London show and Ken Ishiwata was there. The Future One's were slightly pyramid shaped fl... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? @colin44ct357 yes the JBL C1s are very lively and amazing for the size and money. Not a final speaker (if there is such a thing!) but great fun. They use some in the community centre and you think, is all that sound really coming from them? Did so... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? @analogluvr + @prof I'm glad you both brought up the issue of that "warm woody" sound. What prof writes about DeVores I found also applies to many of the larger Tannoys (even the slim floor standing Revolution 3s share this quality. When you first... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? @prof "I'm pretty nuts about correct, organic sounding timbre so that's always been job one for any speaker I have owned. The problem has been for me that instrumental timbre often doesn't sound organic, but more glazed and electronic/plastic th... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? The often neglected subject of timbre in modern designs could be a major factor in explaining why some connoisseurs like Peter Qvortrup of Audio Note casually state that in their opinion audio reproduction has gone backwards in the last half centu... |