clearthinker
Responses from clearthinker
| Subwoofer boom is too much for me... Either you've got the wrong sub-woofer, else it's in the wrong place in your room or you've got it turned up too high. Sorry for so many options, but I've got all the basses (ho ho) covered. | |
| Which Line Level, Balanced Preamplifier? I have Audio Research Ref 6 in my fully balance system and I am very happy. Old enough to find some used examples. Or previous AR Refs. | |
| New Cartridge or New Preamp Yes, I'm with most of the above: look to improve the phono stage. If you have the budget, listen to van den Hul The Grail SB. You will certainly hear detail as well as truth. | |
| Why don't higher end amplifiers come with a separate power chassis? @antigrunge2 Well now we seem to be locked into the PC debate. No. if the manufacturers thought their customers were going to buy their own PCs they would not include a PC at all, thus saving the buyers the cost of any supplied PC. Nor in any... | |
| Why don't higher end amplifiers come with a separate power chassis? @antigrunge2 I am replying to @larry5729 who posted as I quoted. Just as I am doing you the courtesy to reply to you. Back on point, another reason why power amps don't have separate power supply chassis is because of the cost of complicated m... | |
| Why don't higher end amplifiers come with a separate power chassis? @larry5729 Or, to put it another way. Who knows more about power cords - major amp manufacturers who have been successfully in the market for decades, famous names, that employ dozens of qualified and imaginative engineers, or guys that post he... | |
| Why don't higher end amplifiers come with a separate power chassis? @larry5729 "Why do amplifiers come with such cheap power cords. The power cords they come with might cost $5." Because the manufacturers know power cords make no difference to sound quality. They surely have tested. They don't need or want to ... | |
| New to vinyl question Not all records are well engineered, cut and pressed. Fresh Cream is simply awful. My copy bought on the day of release is very badly distorted right across the frequency spectrum. Pity, as it's great music. I never was a Hendrix fan and don't... | |
| room size question. Getting a big truthful soundstage is difficult in smaller rooms and where either the speakers or the listener (or both) is too near to the walls, resulting in reflections that break up the soundstage. Padding out the walls too much is one answer ... | |
| Why is it that every time, lately, that I'm interested in a thread... Rubbish posts need deletion, especially rude and offensive ones. But why delete the whole thread? Suggests the moderators are too lazy to read each post. | |
| Wilson to Tekton to ???? @hickamore Thank you for raising this. Downsizing is a big topic all by itself and worth discussing. I turn 74 this year, fortunately my wife and I are both in very good health. The issue is heightened for us as we don't have children. But w... | |
| Headphones vs speakers…. I'm surprised no-one's highlighted the biggest difference between in-room listening and headphones. With headphones there's no leakage between channels. Your left ear hears the left channel, the whole left channel and nothing but the left channe... | |
| Rounded back enclosure gives clearer sound - B&W 805 I ran B&W801s for many years. It's best not to have parallel boundaries. Rounded back is one way to do it. | |
| Finding (calculating?) speaker and amp impedance Thank God for John Atkinson. From my long experience in reading Stereophile technical reports it's very rare that some part of a speaker's impedance curve isn't below 4 ohms. And vanishingly rare at 6 ohms. Accordingly most valve amps should al... | |
| Wilson to Tekton to ???? @baylinor I don't sell much either. In the result I have some superb classical pieces like Audio Research SP10 and Krell KSA50, their first product. I did sell my Linn though and I'm now three record players on. You're right to keep all the o... |