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| Are Rotel amps and preamps any good? I don't like Rotel stuff. While I haven't heard every component under every circumstance I found the amps either bright, boomy in the bass, or veiled / fuzzy sounding. The CDP wasn't much better. Cambridge audio is pretty bad too.I like NAD better... | |
| Does anyone know the future of EAD. Guess they were'nt so "enlightened" after all. | |
| Speaker design myths revealed Nzera, do you have a link for Nelson Pass' comparision of the Jordan driver? I can't find it at 6moons archive | |
| Speaker design myths revealed Fiddler, what's an open baffle?Maybe up against the wall does not ruin left - right imaging but depth sure does suffer IMHO. Interesting what some folks consider a myth. Maybe Jordan is one of those "flat earth guys".There aren't many speakers tha... | |
| Anyone else feel left out? I do, especially when I read the U.S. audio mag's like Stereophile where "A" preamps range from a $4,300 SimAudio to a $39,000 Boulder. Okay, I left out the $1,000 Plecette passive. That's not a true pre anyhow, (dodging flames).I have found plent... | |
| Best CD lens cleaner Second the compressed air. Marantz recommended this to me as well. | |
| What's Going On?? Sound changes every night Music has been said to be like a condiment. Put on something to complement your mood or the situation. | |
| What's Going On?? Sound changes every night I agree with Onhwy61. You can get ear or brain fatigue after listening to music for a couple of days. Take a few days off and avoid loud noises (I wear hearing protection) and when you go back to your stereo, it should sound great. I've had bright... | |
| What is PRaT Single driver speakers have great prat. Listening to Blind Melon's "Tones of Home" right now and yea, the toes are tapping - with bass response flat only to 80 Hz. Go figure. | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Getting hung up on detail, not music will keep one constantly wanting to upgrade to improve "sound" but will this improve the "music"?Is detail musically important? How much detail is necessary? Can overemphasis on detail draw attention away from ... | |
| When is it time to up grade? How about some speakers? | |
| "The Law of Diminishing Returns"??? Thanks Sean. Upgrading components is a good place to start. I liked your past ideas about ISO transformer but I think of:1) better power supply / larger e-core transformer to replace torroidial. Naim and Cyrus both do this to upgrade their amps.2)... | |
| What Integrated Amp & Speakers for $1,000? Epos M12 and Creek 4330 integrated are about $800 and make great music. | |
| "The Law of Diminishing Returns"??? I can agree with Sean about modding components but does anyone here know how to do this? I would like to mod my Denon UD-M31 mini-system? I've asked at everysite I know with no responses.Short of reading a bunch of books on power amp design, power... | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? Jes45, I burned the black CDR on a Marantz pro CDR500 at 1x. Like I said, what one person says is "better" is highly subjective. IMHO "Muddy, fuzzy, low fidelity sound" is worse not better. But I have seen more than one audiophile trade in his hig... |