devinplombier
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| Sound quality differences in streamers @kevn Pre, amps, and speakers deliver the sound to your ears regardless of which source you listen to. Short of giving a dealer $300000 to seed your system and using that as a baseline to improve upon, it is unclear how you propose to evaluate s... | |
| Loudspeaker warranties and black market products A leading cause of speaker trauma is inadequate amplification. Most speakers love current and don't get well with amps that can't provide it. | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers Unfortunately, too many people still treat digital like analog. Were this a freezing night in 1910, those people would throw a thick blanket over the hood of their new automobile so the engine doesn’t catch cold. When it comes to digital compon... | |
| What bass-litmus-test music do you take to auditions? Finally, another great bass track: We Have Always Lived In The Castle, from the 2018 Uniform / The Body collab album Mental Wounds Not Healing I wouldn't quite recommend you listen to it... though you're welcome to | |
| What bass-litmus-test music do you take to auditions? @slaw @knownothing I was aware of Ray Brown’s name but sadly I knew next to nothing about his music. Soular Energy is delightful. I did not find Evidence - but Black Orpheus was released on the Evidence label? The Goat Rodeo sessions is Yo Yo M... | |
| What bass-litmus-test music do you take to auditions? @ditusa This stirred up memories. When I was small, my mom was into Tchaikovsky and the 1812 Overture was in regular rotation in our house. I even think I remember the Deutsche Grammophon album cover, but I could be imagining that. I was not fa... | |
| What bass-litmus-test music do you take to auditions? @g2the2nd Lineage - Lenny's Solo is an absolute gem I'd never heard of, so thank you for bringing it up. As epic drum solos go, it's right up there with Billy Cobham's A Funky Shade of Things, and dare I say within sight of Max Roach's best. I h... | |
| Selling collection directly in the pacific northwest? ? | |
| Loudspeaker warranties and black market products @mulveling is correct, speaker warranties are of little import. His advice to stash drivers is sound, however drivers by and large don’t fail unless abused. That leaves the crossovers. Unless you rock Thiel CS5i, crossovers are simple circuits th... | |
| Does other Audiogon members' opinion carry any weight for you ? A way to upvote / downvote posts might be a good start. | |
| Sound quality differences in streamers You know that nice feeling you get when you walk into an IKEA store? The warm smell of cinnamon wafting from the oven? Except the only ovens in IKEA’s kitchens are the microwaves with which they nuke horsemeat meatballs made in Slovakia. Many pe... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound I'm kind of curious about the JBL M2 though. On paper, they look more like my cup of tea. OP didn't say why he got rid of his, did he? | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound Mike, that old Lansing Heritage paper is a very good and very approachable analysis of woofer design, with the caveat of course that it is limited to JBL products (naturally). That other article is just one man’s opinionated screed. While I’ll be... | |
| Speakers for leading edge, transients, speed and big sound @larryi I hear you and I respect your sonic preferences, but how does low xmax translate into clean, and especially fast, bass? Especially when paired with a 15" paper cone? | |
| Selling collection directly in the pacific northwest? @lizardloungerecords This forum is in the business of selling audio gear for a commission. Perhaps not surprisingly, they take a very dim view of folks trying to sell their gear to one another in forum threads. They also do their best to prevent... |