drubin
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| Review: Bent Audio Tap Linestage is it correct to describe the TAP as solid state? It's passive so it has neither tubes nor transistors. Same for resistor-based passsives. | |
| Transparency: What speakers have it in spades? Exactly. | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players Oooo, I love that Bernstein Candide on RR. Good choice. | |
| Warmest speaker? Vandersteen. Can't live with it... pass the beer nuts.Seriously, do you Vandersteen bashers feel the 5A is too warm? | |
| Transparency: What speakers have it in spades? The way I am thinking about transparency these days is operational and not musical: the more a component allows me to hear upstream system changes, the more transparent it is. I'm sure this definiiton is not without problems and I'll also say that... | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players Shadorne says:I remain somewhat skeptical that the other products are "dimensionless" in comparison.First, let me say how much I enjoy your posts here, Shadorne. I would characterize you as a knowledgeable, "gentleman disbeliever" of audiophile do... | |
| Warmest speaker? Harbeth speakers are warm to my way of thinking. | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players One could not be confident of agreeing with the majority even if the sample size were very large. Predictive value is not the point. | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players Pete, I am intrigued by your observation that "I had the uncanny feeling that I was in the presence of real music." I have heard this from others about the top APL models and I'm trying to get a handle on what it means. You talk about air and spat... | |
| Transparency: What speakers have it in spades? This thread is a riot. Can you all be even *remotely* on the same page in what you mean by "transparency"? Given the recommendations, I don't think so. | |
| Review: Bent Audio Tap Linestage I've noticed with my TAP that volume levels are lower using balanced connections, the opposite of the way it usually works. Those of you with TAPs (or TVCs in general I suppose), has this also been your experience?Ted...monster ATCs and you also h... | |
| APL NWO2.5 ? I used to have to go to a buddy's home, to listen to...What is your buddy's system, Steve? | |
| Where did tracking error go? Tracking error is still an issue -- it will always be an issue with a pivoted arm. Analog playback is fraught will imprecision and error... and yet it works. | |
| New Von Schweikert VR SR4 mk11 Cream or Crap ??? Right out of the box, even though I had the speakers face-to-face, out of phase, and covered with bear skins, I could tell they were something special. | |
| Silverline's "Prelude" vs. Monitor Audio RS-6 It's nice to hear from these happy Prelude owners. Reading John Atkinson's measurements section in the Stereophile review, it seemed to me like he was bending over backwards to not say "bad engineering." |