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| Thinking of Magnepan ... finally! I'm not a big Maggie fan but I had a friend who was involved in speaker design including the Pipe Dreams speakers who I trusted alot. And he told me he thought the Maggie real ribbon tweeter in the bigger Maggies was as good a tweeter as there was... | |
| Are Harbeth Super HL5 XD right for me? Never ask for advice on a given speaker. You will always get advice on speakers that are very different from the ones you are asking about but that will, of course, be the ones the advisor loves for his system. | |
| Law Of Diminishing Returns? The law of diminishing returns is absolutely real. But for many audiophiles there is a kind of reverse curve. We become more and mor perceptive of seemingly small changes. And if that's true of you then the small changes become more and more signi... | |
| Sonus Faber Olympica nova 2 VS Sonus Faber Cremona M Loudspeaker vs By the way my friend actually built the first Definitive Technology speakers from a Sandy Grossman idea before Sandy took on his partner who then did the designs. And my friend designed the technique for putting the cloth sock on the definitive sp... | |
| Sonus Faber Olympica nova 2 VS Sonus Faber Cremona M Loudspeaker vs I don't know his name. A friend of mine who knew Sandy well would but we lost him a year ago. I do recall he was Canadian I think and was a full partner in both Definitive Technology and Golden Ear. I don't know who the Polk designer was although ... | |
| Sonus Faber Olympica nova 2 VS Sonus Faber Cremona M Loudspeaker vs hey Petaluman, Sandy Gross is not a designer. But his partner in both Definitive Technology and Golden Ear was an excellent one. But Sandy was one of the best audio businees men in audio. He was largely responsible for the initial growth of Polk,... | |
| Is soundstage DEPTH a myth? There is no question that a good system well set up can give a sense of depth. What I'm not sure is whether this is reproducing what' s on the recording(which I doubt) or just a room/speaker interaction(which I suspect it is except for a miniscule... | |
| I noticed brightness/harshness more than usual from my system a couple months back. Is it true in both channels. If it's just one something probably went bad in one channel. Try switching left to right in one piece at a time and see if it changes channels. If it's both channels it's tougher but it's your system(which can include... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? Musical is a useless term. It means I like it. New Hi Fi Sound is an oxymoron. The goal of hi fi is reproduction of live sound. Live sound hasn't changed. So there can't be new hi fi sound. | |
| Is a FLAT response the IDEAL? There are many factors involved in reproducing a recorded signal. Some are more important than others which is why when some factors are not done well the sound may still be better than when other factors are done well. But the goal is for every f... | |
| CLASS A POWER RATINGS The only amps that you can be sure are always class A are single ended amps because their topology makes them always class A; they cannot go into class B since the output devices must be on all the time. Push/pull amps are different and what you ... | |
| Something other than Harbeth SHL5 Speakers are as we all know are very personal. And given your history of Spendor and Harbeth speakers it seems you need BBC type reproduction albeit with more dynamics. If I were you I'd be wary of going for non-BBC style speakers. There's a good ... | |
| What can beat Wilson XVX for less money? Well not less than $100,000 but about 1/2 as much. I have it on direct authority from a respected reviewer that the Wilson Alexx V is better than the XVX and that he's not the only reviewer with that opinion. Perhaps alos look at the Laxia V if yo... | |
| Some famous reviewers have atrocious listening rooms! I suspect many listening rooms full of crap and that look messy may actually be reasonably good audio environments. With little repeated dimensions and/or room treatment there's less likelihood of strong resonances in a room. | |
| CD TRANSPORT THAT MAKES AN AUDIBLE DIFFERENCE As good as the Cambridge or other drive is there is the possibility of jitter going to the DAC. I use 2 old Monarchy anti jitter devices in series(with good cables) and that seems to produce improved sound. |