douglas_schroeder
Responses from douglas_schroeder
| Do You Care About AESTHETICS? What Are Your Gear/Listening Room Preferences?... Ok, so we disagree. :) | |
| Do You Care About AESTHETICS? What Are Your Gear/Listening Room Preferences?... Prof, I disagree about whether the conclusion is obvious. As in most areas of consumer products aesthetics and performance are expected to go hand in hand. Only use of hundreds of audio components has revealed what I consider a significant departu... | |
| Do You Care About AESTHETICS? What Are Your Gear/Listening Room Preferences?... I have found no direct correlation between appearance/aesthetics and sound quality. However, in speakers if aesthetics drive the purchase it should be understood that it will dictate performance parameters; i.e. selection of dynamic speaker over p... | |
| VMPS speakers--Who has had great success in bringing their VMPS speakers to new heights? Just spend a lot of time thinking through what you want, how it will operate, how to move it about, where the amps will go, etc. You have to take into account the placement of the rest of the system in the room. That's partly why I integrated amp ... | |
| VMPS speakers--Who has had great success in bringing their VMPS speakers to new heights? Bob, thanks again for the kind words. I enjoy exploration of the sonic landscape, so to speak. The Landscape orientation is used quite a bit in studios, so it's not such a radical idea. I always turned monitors/bookshelf speakers sideways over th... | |
| VMPS speakers--Who has had great success in bringing their VMPS speakers to new heights? Bob, ah, you saw the unorthodox application of the Ulysses! A lot has happened since then. I have had three distinct runs at the Landscape Orientation method. The second was with the Magnepan .7, and frankly it was disappointing overall, not nearl... | |
| Vandie .7 vs Maggie .7 Congrats on the purchase! For the benefit of those who are looking at such decisions, there is another option which "splits the difference," the Eminent Technology LFT-8B. I reviewed it, and found it lovely because it is a sort of synthesis betwee... | |
| Swapping Wilson Watt Puppy 6’s for open baffle Pure Audio Project Trio15 Voxative's The flexibility of the Trio15 line is a blessing to inquisitive audiophiles. It scratches my incessant itch for variety. One of the very few high quality DIY-ish speakers around which does not require build skills.Atmosphere, yes, it's very reacti... | |
| Need passive aggressive advice Passive can be very good, but by no means the only way to a stunning sound | |
| Swapping Wilson Watt Puppy 6’s for open baffle Pure Audio Project Trio15 Voxative's Having reviewed the PAP I can assure you the experience will be holistically different. Prepare to be amazed at the variance potential between speaker technologies. Give time for your ears to adjust to the difference, and you will appreciate the n... | |
| Wow! Vintage HiFi magazines. Truly a labor of love to catalogue them. Wonderful nostalgia trip! | |
| my first hight end sound system , please don’t ignore May you have many years of blissful enjoyment! | |
| Greatest Dowsing Rod Ever Fantastic Sound Tuning Ability At least there are some measurements to back up claims, however I question the efficacy of the product when the change with and without may be deemed by some as significant statistically, but imo marginal at -120dB. To me that says that whatever i... | |
| Quad ESL-63 and low-powered amps; Sun Audio, Atma willemj, not intending to misrepresent your position. I appreciate the clarification. Aside from the issue of clipping, I see then that we will not agree on the question of amps sounding different from each other. So be it. :) | |
| Where to go next, DAC or Preamp Either one; if your goal is over time to upgrade the entire system both are likely fine upgrades and the overall character of the rig will change again as you add the second upgrade. No one can tell you which would be preferable to your ears as a ... |