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| Comments per Brand in Discussion Forums My apologies, thanks to Trelja's post I see that I misunderstood the meaning of Jim's topic, which is confined to Audiogon and which I misunderstood and saw in a much wider context. So my post above is really off topic and I wish I could withdraw ... | |
| Current feeling on stacked quads? Curriemt11,The Atmas: I have MA-II Mark IIIs and apart from the heat and the time it takes for them to sound right, where I fully agree with you, I do not hear what you describe. But then MA-2s have a lot more punch than the MA-1s you had. I wonde... | |
| Comments per Brand in Discussion Forums Jim,to my mind you make excellent sense. My compliments also regarding the rationality and equanimity of the phrasings by which you presented your post. My thoughts in this matter are far more cynical and would hardly prevail before the critical e... | |
| Current feeling on stacked quads? Chris, I have no real experience with the Maggies, only with their bass-panels a long time ago, but from what I have heard other tell, it is as you say. What I do know however is, that the Quads are right in premier league in reproducing tiny dyna... | |
| a really good sound card for windows vista for dig Why not get an outboard TRENDS, feed it with your USB out from your computer and then go from there with a digital ic (SPIF or AES/EBU) into your DAC? Beats any soundcard I know. | |
| Current feeling on stacked quads? Chris,With the full range Sound Labs you have the same lack of coloration, the immediacy, the impeccable rendition of transients, the wonderful midrange of the Quads. It is all there. Furthermore you can play much louder, have a wider sweet spot a... | |
| Current feeling on stacked quads? Ah yes, as an x-over I used one from Mark Levinson, the man.... and yes again, as Des said, go for it! Even today, unless you want earsplitting sound levels, there is hardly anything better..... | |
| Conoscenti. Where will we newbies be? Servostatic, Quad 57, stacked Quad 57s, Quad 63s, stacked 63s, then an array of four, plus special speakers for the high end and Entecs for bass, also Maggie bass panels,then back to a pair of single 63s with Gradient subs, finally the big Sound L... | |
| Current feeling on stacked quads? You will get more SPL, but there are some people who think that the proper placement of instruments on the soundstage would be compromised. However this was not my experience when I had those. I used them with Sequerra ribbons for the high end and... | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? Heck, Paul, I should have thought of that before. What I great time I would have had before I would have repented. Now it is too late alas.... | |
| Quad 57's stacked with Gradient sub woofer Ggavetti,If I recall right, my room was even smaller in my student days, so don't worry. The 57s are excellent for near field listening, but you MUST sit in the sweet spot and keep your neck in a vice to get their excellent high end just right.Ste... | |
| Quad 57's stacked with Gradient sub woofer When I had stacked 57s, I used Maggie bass panels with them and later Entec subs, the Maggies were indeed a great improvement, as well as the Entecs, which I placed away from the Quads. Later I used Entecs with the 63s. In both cases, having a bet... | |
| Zanden transport and DAC or PC audio system Emigene,Exactly! I have just had occasion to listen to a ReQuest Server on my system and again evidence seems to point in the direction of a good digital PC front.( on the other hand though, as an afterthought, last night I listend to a Brazilian ... | |
| The partner or wife factor It feels good to see my old thread revived, thanks to Chashmal and the virtual vaults of A. I think it was the great George Steiner, one of the finest literary minds of our times, Professor of Comparative Literature at Chicago, Oxford and Geneva w... | |
| Zanden transport and DAC or PC audio system Emigene,I have the same digital front end as you have and it is indeed wonderful. It easily bettered the dcs stack in redbook performance. I then bought Steve Nugents's (Empirical Audio) SPOILER USB dac with his PACECAR clock inside, which is sync... |