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| How does solo piano help you evaluate audio gear? About 50 years ago Bud Fried(Irving M Fried of IMF speakers) told me he thought the 3 hardest things to reproduce in order are male voice(we are so familiar with it and it goes into an upper bass region speakers often suck on), female voice(again ... | |
| Eva Cassiday Blew Me Away with her cover of Wayfaring Stranger.... You should not listen to artists like Eva Cassidy. She ruins for most other singers making them seem ordinary. | |
| Underpowered? can't believe it's not enough power unless you're in a monster size room. Systems have oomph if they're dynamically linear and that can be limited by a speaker with a lousy impedance load and/or an amp that can't handle the load. My gut feeling is... | |
| How much “suspension of disbelief do you need?” It depends . I suspect the reproduction quality needed to suspend belief every time you hear a 'better' system. I recall stories of live/recorded demos in the 19 teens with frequency response of old telephones and many participants were heard to b... | |
| 30 to 50 watts seems to be all I desire The AVERAGE watts even on inefficient speakers playing loud is only in the low single digits. Even an avreage twenty watts would either drive you out of the room or else make youd deaf. Power is used for very, very short term transients which can ... | |
| Why I'm not adding a sub to my 2-way monitors for music Musically the important thing when adding a sub to a system is that a high pass is used on the main speakers. Then as stated distortion foes down and the main speakers open up significantly. Without the high pass this won't happen and the only adv... | |
| Amplfiers that Sound like Pass 30.8 that are not so heavy Unless the amp power supply is a switching type(very rare) a large power supply is desirable but heavy due to a large trnasformer. Great power supplies don't show up in standard amp specs but are the most significant factor in the amp's performanc... | |
| Amp will not power off Thanks for the info on the Melos preamp. That was the 1st Melos preamp followed by many others. It was a great buy only costing about $1000 including moving coil phono. The GK1 brings back lots of good memories. Melos was a pretty creative compan... | |
| Amp will not power off Just curious. Which Melos preamp. I was good pals with the company and don't hear them mentioned that often. | |
| Are tubes psychological? Of course tubes are psychological. But amps sound different too. Different amps all have their own characteristics. One manufacturer's solid state amps sound different than another's. And so do dufferent tube manufacturers. But tubes in general ha... | |
| Best speakers around $130k? Obviously any recommendation for any audio product is just you ought to audition it. I don't believe anyone has recommended Rockport speakers yet and they are a no brainer to include in your search. The Lyra is a bit above your quoted price but ma... | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... I suspect it's not magnetism but static electricity that builds up on discs. What magnetic material is on a disc? | |
| SET Shootout China VS The USA My problem with single ended amps is that evn using a triode they are inherently non linear due to single ended topolgy. They compress the bottom half of a signal relative to the top half. | |
| Better Sounding Systems, Objectivists or Subjectivists? Why not use every tool you have. If a measurement is off it doesn't guarantee there's a bad result but it points to something to check. In the end the final decision is subjective. It's the only way to put all the data one has into one decision. ... | |
| Selling off Tubes for Solid State, A Cooler Love Story? One of the main factors in tube sound is low damping factor which very few solid state amps have. A high quality exception to this is Pass amps. They don't use full loop feedback which is why solid state has a high damping factor. So Pass amps int... |