danager
Responses from danager
| My Experience With Tekton Its just a darn number made up by some engineer somewhere as a baseline to measure loudness. It assists you pairing an amp's power rating (another made up number) to allow you to drive them to a loudness level you desire.The measurements reference... | |
| Tube Amp recommendations to drive Klipsch Forte III How good? You got a price range? Power requirement? Features like remote volume control? | |
| Referent point That's the issue with reference. Respected reviewers and many here on the forum use the Klipsch as their reference speaker. Does reference mean the best you've heard or just a baseline to compare other speakers to? | |
| Referent point The reference has been around for 70 years.KipschhornsThe used market makes them very affordableAmp FriendlyDon’t dominate the middle of the room.All you need are corners.and for the reference: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky or the Beatles | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics Tweaks are about a deeper understanding of how sound is being produced from the recording process all the way to the end result.Tweaks also seem really counter intuitive and voodoo magic at times. How can six feet of wire dramatically change the s... | |
| My Experience With Tekton Wilsons SUCK!I heard a pair once in a shop in Portland stuffed on a wall with a whole bunch of other speakers on unfamiliar equipment demoed on unfamiliar material.Rated at 87db efficient we all know that's a lieThey only have a single tweeterThey... | |
| Subwoofer Connection: Speaker Level Amp to Line Level on Sub? Google is your friend.speaker to line level output | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics The reason for the increased interest in tweaks could also be related to all the marketing emails received when signing up to Audiogon.I got one today spouting a deal on cables.speaker cables are absolutely fabulous! The depth of imaging has incre... | |
| Is it worth it to add a music server just for FLAC files? A Rasberry PI 4 with a free program like Volumio would provide a nice looking interface and usb out for not much money.There are also hats that can change I2S output to a multitude of digital outputs. | |
| Demos - To Charge a Fee or to Not Charge a Fee? Or you could just offer price matching. I worked selling stereos on commission for a long time. To pay up front for someone to sell me something makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth. If you want to drive away customers charge them to list... | |
| Critical listening and altered states Thank you for mentioning this! I looked it up. Very cool.I have to say, that I disagree. I prefer Diana Krall's version of it I'm not sure how to respond to that???Cassandra Wilson does a version also which at least takes it somewhere new. I'm... | |
| Critical listening and altered states Umm..yes we are humans. We didn’t land here on a UFO space ship. Are you sure.The first chapter of Ezekiel http://spaceshipsofezekiel.com/html/ships-05-b.html#:~:text=Verse%205%3AEzekiel%20sees%20the%20four%....Sounds to me like they were just ... | |
| Audiophile Priorities and Recent Topics femoore1228 posts I couldn’t disagree more. The way I read the OPs comment he was talking to you specifically and your feedback is what was requested. I see your insight as very important to this discussion. | |
| Low budget vintage preamp or new What's the purpose of a preamp? Do you want remote volume control? Would a passive preamp work? It would allow you to switch sources and turn down the volume. Are you going to listen to vinyl? For that you would need a phone input. If you ar... | |
| Anyone here using vintage speakers? I only have vintage. Infinite Slope Model 1, Dahlquist DQ12s, ADS L1290 and finally the set that made them all expendable Speaker Lab SK corner horns.Nobody asked but I also have vintage equipment. 2 Dynaco ST-70, SAE Mark XXIV, the original o... |