daveyf
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| Best Sounding Room at the HE 2006 Show? IMHO the Lamm room was the best sound at the show. The Acoustic Image room did not have the Lamm/Wilson's stage width or depth or purity of timbre. The losss of width was possibly due to the fact that the ESP's were in a smaller room and again IMH... | |
| Home Entertainment Show in Los Angeles Macrojack makes some very good points IMHO. He probably forgets that Wilson caters to the buyer who makes $1 Million a year or more. So $30K is pretty much chump change to these guys. Not sure why they are only $30K for the 8's and $135K for the A... | |
| Blown up my Sennheiser 600's Viridian, Thanks for the advice. Forgot to mention that I run the Cardas headphone cable to the phones and the connector's are pretty solid. | |
| Home Entertainment Show in Los Angeles Nilthepill, I listened to the mBL's, Acapella's and the Dynaudio's.Again, IMHO the Lamm room was extraordinary with better integration etc. The Mbl's and the Acapella's were impressive, however, I felt that the Mbl room was too loud and the speake... | |
| Home Entertainment Show in Los Angeles Just got back from the show.. As usual, a couple of good sounding rooms and a lot of very poor sounding rooms.What stuck me as interesting was the consistancy of pricing.Speakers typically between $4K and $100K with 90% costing between$10k to $50K... | |
| A brutal review of the Wilson Maxx Many times in the past, people have said to me that their systems are really close to the sound of real live unamplified music. Its when I proceed to play my Taylor next to their system do their jaws drop... NOT even close.That is one of my pet pe... | |
| A brutal review of the Wilson Maxx Intersting thread, having never heard the Max 2's so I would never presume to comment on their sound quality.One of the things I learnt over 25 years ago when I got into this hobby ( that's what it is BTW, nothing more/nothing less) was to listen ... | |
| EAD DSP 7000/9000 .... Best DACs ????? The EAD 7000/9000's are still more than competetive today IMHO.Having listened to many DAC's over the last couple of years, including ML Dacs and the DCS pieces, the EAD's were again IMHO in the same league. | |
| Hales Design Group speakers....how good were they? Interesting thread.. I have owned the System 2 Signatures for about 15 years. When he came out with them,the system 2 Signatures were the ones that put Paul Hales on the map.Harry Pearson gave them a mini rave and Robert Harley used them as his re... | |
| Rowland --- older amps vs the newer models? Ar t, that's a good description of the differnces between choke and other power supplies. Oddly, I am not bothered by the weight, of course it helps that my brother helps me lift the darn thing.Regarding the hum, I have always taken care to suppor... | |
| Jeff Rowland Model 8 - questions Oops forgot to mention that I changed the top plate on my 8. This is a slight improvement over the older sheet plate. It seemed to increase the focus slightly and was definitely better to look at. The rigidity of the chassis is improved and the he... | |
| Jeff Rowland Model 8 - questions Bambadoo, see my posts above in the thread about new vs. old models.I run my 8 with a CAT sig pre-amp, I modded this with NOS GE smooth plates and Russian rocket tubes in the phono stage. IMHO this combo is pretty awesome. I have heard many of the... | |
| Rowland --- older amps vs the newer models? sirspeedy, the model I have is the original model 8 with the choke power supply( single chassis).I have heard the switch mode power supply and still prefer the choke. Jeff once told me that the choke was in his opinion the way to go, but that he h... | |
| Rowland --- older amps vs the newer models? Had my model 8 with the original power supply ( choke) for many years. It's built like a tank and sounds much smoother than some of the newer models IMHO. I have compared choke vs. dual mono supply version and again prefer the choke version. If yo... | |
| Jeff Rowland amp owners: What's your pre-amp?? Model 8 with original choke power supply, which IMHO sounds better than later non-choke units and a CAT SL1 Signature with NOS GE tubes. Seems like a pretty good marriage. |