cwlondon
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| Smoke Head or Sherry Bomb? As a subset of this discussion, it is curious to me that many audiophiles might think nothing of spending thousands on weirdo tweaks of dubious origin, yet balk at the price of say, 18 year vs 10 years old whiskey.Or have some of you also spent th... | |
| Single driver point source speakers vs. the world? ElevickI was interested to see the speakers in a tall "matchstick" shaped enclosure in a 6 Moons review, which raved about them.Then I found other posters saying that 6 Moons reviewers must get paid by the paragraph, because although OK for the mo... | |
| Replacing Nano with iPod for Best Sound For wives, the iThong.Regards, | |
| Single driver point source speakers vs. the world? Intuitively, this approach makes a lot of sense, and I am particuarly impressed that electrostatic fans have been converted.I am interested in experimenting with a single driver, crossoverless speaker for a desktop system, where all day, every day... | |
| Not JS but CPE Bach Photon46Thank you so much - "bouyant" and "joy" exactly what I was looking for.Like CPE vs JS, it would be interesting to hear of other lesser known composers and music with great performances and recordings. Disappointing that even the classics c... | |
| Not JS but CPE Bach Grimace, To my suprise, I had the sensation that he competes very well with his dad!But perhaps only because so much of JS's work is overplayed, so it sounded refreshing.Hence, my search for a good CPE Bach performance and recording, if anyone kno... | |
| Headphones--The Grado sound in a closed design? As posted in another thread on closed headphones, I noticed the Phiaton MS 400s are well reviewed in the latest Stereophile survey.Having just tried them, they do leak a bit of sound, but are detailed, revealing and efficient for use with a laptop... | |
| Best Private Retreat Using Closed Headphones Further to closed headphones, has anyone tried the Phiaton MS 400's?They were well reviewed in the recent Stereophile summary of recommended components, so I thought I would give them a try.An interesting style, the headphones have a Ferrari like ... | |
| Benchmark DAC-1 Pre vs Parasound JC-2 Could anyone recommend either the Benchmark or the Parasound for a rack mountable preamplifier for PC based music, PC applications and HD television in a rack mountable, all day every day environment?Any other workhorse, rack mountable preamps out... | |
| Best Late Night Low Volume Speaker Coltrane1OB is for "open baffle"? Single driver, crossoverless speakers?This is an interesting topic if you have any links, dealers or more information, please. | |
| Devore Gibbon 3XLs: anyone have these? I see that the Devores are ported, whereas the Harbeths and ATCs are not. Would this suggest a mid bass frequency rise?I have heard many suggestions that ATCs are analytical, and also how well they play at loud volumes. I have SCM7s on my desktop ... | |
| High Powered Wireless Network for Audio AlYou are the man on this topic. I am running XP and no, have not defragged the drive. So probably a lot of housekeeping I could do and thanks for tips. The color setting is a new one for me.....When I look at the task master, I can see 49 process... | |
| Your Personal Soundtrack Here's something different:For a traditional boxing workout starting with skipping rope:Herbie Hancock - Chameleon from the Headhunters album.A jazz/funk classic and 15:41 track length for a perfect warm up. | |
| High Powered Wireless Network for Audio This is all very helpful and thanks everyone.Last night I was able to test the new cable modem using speedguide.net while hard wired to my computer via the ethernet cable.It confirmed I was achieving the upload and download speeds as promised by t... | |
| Devore Gibbon 3XLs: anyone have these? Devore has bee recommended by a friend whose opinion I trust and respect, so I am curious about the 3's in particular.Would anyone know how they might compare vs. ATCs, Harbeths or Spendors? |