douglas_schroeder
Responses from douglas_schroeder
| I'm A Believer Then it was a good disaster indeed, since it sounds like you would never have discovered the critical importance of cables in system building had it not happened. :) | |
| regular interconnect for digital signal transfer In any given instance the IC may outperform the digital cable, regardless of theory. | |
| Speakers for a large vaulted room? Especially since the ceiling limits so much I would continue to do the nearfield listening; it'll eliminate a lot of room issues. You need to determine if you really want to trade away the panel sound. If you do not realize how vast the soundstage... | |
| Is One Subwoofer Really Not Appropriate For 2-Chnl Consider the trade off; a smallish bookshelf with a set of subs may cost about the same as a larger full range, and the full range, while taking up less room, perhaps, will likely be more coeherent across the entire spectrum. I tried sub/monitor c... | |
| Which speaker has the biggest sound stage? Now then, even a modest floor standing dynamic speaker can have its soundstage perceptually raised and expanded by placement. One can elevate it through placing it on a pedistal, can attain a higher ceiling on the soundstage by tilting it back sli... | |
| Which speaker has the biggest sound stage? To answer the OPs question, yes fairly all larger panel speakers have this huge soundstage. An eception might be the Magnepan MMG for its dinky size, it certainly is not capable of the vastness of the bigger panel speakers. Besides Magnepan you've... | |
| Are you too old to be an audiophile? Yes, Farjamed, we should not loose respect for our audiophile elders; they do have a tremendous amount of wisdom, and also experience with gear that is invaluable. Perhaps I was a bit too harsh on the guys at the Quad/Naim dealership in saying I w... | |
| Are you too old to be an audiophile? Frogman, yes, I would assume there is a natural shift toward media and the experience as one gets older. I just chatted with an industry professional the other day who repairs/restores rather large speakers. He recalled the big monsters which he u... | |
| Are you too old to be an audiophile? Dan_ed, I'm not sure why you find it so difficult to see that for some of us the question of hearing acuity and age is important. You say, "...I do think this is a topic that is hard to take seriously. It sounds more like some of you guys who are ... | |
| Are you too old to be an audiophile? I could have made my illustration of running with arthritis even stronger with an exaple of a young person with juvenile arthritis; similar condition independent of age. I think of one young woman who battled it from nearly the cradle, who progres... | |
| Are you too old to be an audiophile? Dopogue, Dan_ed, I appreciate your input. I am 48, have been building two channel audio systems since my early 20's, so for about 25 plus years. I have built dozens upon dozens of HiFi systems in that time. Would my argument carry more weight if I... | |
| lessloss blackbody Mcondon, I tend to agree with you about the flimsy nature of the scientific basis for these products. I read the Lessloss description of the Blackbodies and was thoroughly unimpressed. I can see how the technological nature of the discussion would... | |
| Are you too old to be an audiophile? I am finding the dicussion here well reasoned and seasoned with experience. However, I will politely disagree with the majority here. I do not feel that hearing loss is negligible in the establishment of systems. Any compromise is a strike against... | |
| A New Believer To be a skeptic you have to deny proof which is not available yet. How much cultural (as in audiophile culture) and personal bias (as in, "It doesn't seem logical, so I'm not going to try it") influence which proof is deemed impossible and wich is... | |
| A New Believer What's humorous is when the experience of hearing the difference is made so easily available, yet people will harp on its impossibility. I have little time for people who in their arrogance insist that efficacious changes in cables are impossible.... |