educeus
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| Bad experience with Red Dragon Audio Bad service is bad service. No excuse with the plethora of communication options available today...still, OP's experience was very different than my experience. I bought two Red Dragon mono-blocks. The guy was readily available by phone, and he... | |
| Getting good sound from MacBook via DAC. Lot's of good points in this dialogue, and I'll try to add a couple more. I've been running a Mac Mini with a DAC for sometime. Tried the BlueSound for a while but went back to the Mac. The glitchiness and the difficultly with accessing my libr... | |
| Aragon, Parasound or Bryston I have the Aragon 8008, and I brought home a Parasound A21 when I first got the Aragon to compare. I've got PSB Imagine T2 speakers. The amps were close, but I thought the Aragon had a tad more warmth to the sound (fill in personal adjective her... | |
| Network Audio Player - need some basic advice Alternatively....Given that SJTM is just starting in the world of digital audio...why not go "old school"! Find yourself a new or used Mac Mini. That's what the digital audio community has been using for years until companies starting coming out... | |
| Mellow speakers Well, adding significantly to the bottom end in this case, seems to have made a difference. I notice in my post I say "96 dB". I meant 95 Hz. So the Rel is now adding some serious bottom end below 100 Hz, and I perceive that the highs have sett... | |
| Mellow speakers Mapman. Good to know about fullranges on my 1926 wooden floor. My PSB Imagine T2s sit on a concrete floor in my basement (AV), and they sound fantastic with their associated gear. My PMCs are on sand filled stands on spikes/discs. I can defini... | |
| Mellow speakers Well...I've had the KEF 104/2s in the house all weekend, and it just goes to show how great it is to have a good shop to do business with, so that you can take stuff home and give it a good listen. The KEFs are going back to the store. In short,... | |
| Calling all room treatment type specialists... So, I went the easy route. After a quick study online, I headed down to my local art supply and bought a 3x5 foot panel of 1/2 inch black foam board ($12) and a can of spray adhesive (appropriate for photo paper $7). Laid everything out on a fla... | |
| Mellow speakers Larstusor, what state are you in? And, do you know how to respond with a private message? I don't see that functionality anywhere on this page. | |
| Mellow speakers Thanks, DJVerne. Unfortunately, my room is fairly limiting. I can only bring my speakers out about a foot. 2 or 3 feet from the side walls. Not optimal by any stretch. I haven't heard of the Fritz speakers. I'll read about them tonight. | |
| Mellow speakers Seems I'm not the only one who has this problem with too much of a good thing. I appreciate the transparency and accuracy of a modern speaker...but sometimes they're just too much. I heard a big Bryston system with Ariels recently...it was amazi... | |
| Calling all room treatment type specialists... I looked into the GIK Acoustic panel idea. I might do it, but the problem at this point is that they need to start with a .tif or other digitized image. I have the paper poster, but so far I have not found a digitized version of adequate resolut... | |
| Mellow speakers Lot's of recommendations for Vandersteen speakers. However, as I see them online, they all appear to have a stretch fabric covering...kind of like the Golden Ear speakers. True? If so, that's a problem, as I'm certain that my cat Beastie will m... | |
| Mellow speakers Good idea on the preamp. I have assumed that the Ayre, being an Ayre, could not possibly be the culprit. Got to be careful with those pesky assumptions....I'll switch out the Ayre with an older Primare pre that I have in the office and see what ... | |
| Mellow speakers In answer to some of your excellent questions:I've got an Ortofon 2M Black on the VPI, and a Musical Impressions phono pre. The harshness I hear occurs on both digital and analogue. I'm secretly afraid that my old musician/sound guy ears are tir... |