dan2956
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| Just auditioned Martin Logan ESL vs 60xt I have the 60 XTs which I had gotten a smokin' deal on from Crutchfield which I could not refuse. I feel that the muddiness in male vocals is due to their natural 80 Hz resonance frequency. It's recommended to read Brent Butterworth's review, he e... | |
| Who says cables don't make a difference? Well, I don't know where to begin:"Funny, after all these years, people still say things like "you wasted all that money on cables". "I'm an engineer, and I'm one of them. Most of the differences people hear, are capacitance and inductance (neithe... | |
| How important is a preamp for purely digital sources? Cables, are mostly snake oil, and differences are the most minute of any part of the audio chain, and are particularly small compared to those of the speakers. Don't understand why companies aren't being charged with fraud for making false claim... | |
| ... WHAT POWER CORD(S) ARE PLAYING IN YOU SYSTEM TODAY? Now, there's a waste of money! At least spend money on low level wiring that's in the signal path. In my case, it's Home Depot bulk cable with self soldered connectors from Digikey. | |
| How many amps do you own? Two: NAD 2400 and Quad 606 mki, both from the 1980's; the Quad having lower distortion. Used to have a third (Parasound HCA-1500), and that one had sounded worse than the other two at $500 used (sorry John Curl), and I couldn't wait to get rid of ... | |
| Where subwoofers are manufactured You're deluding yourself if you think you will get better quality or value by buying a subwoofer that's made in the US. | |
| How important is a preamp for purely digital sources? I haven't used an active preamplifier since 2010, and I don't miss it, figuring that adding unnecessary circuitry to the signal path can only degrade the sound, especially if there's capacitors and op amps. I have a Luminous Audio Axiom 2 (a passi... |