eldartford
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| Is solid state on the brink of extinction? Muralman1...Ok I will step forward. As I have said in other threads, I have purchased Carver ZR1600 digital amps, and I find them to be superb (driving MG1.6 and subwoofers). This confirms opinions posted elsewhere by other reviewers. Also importa... | |
| Is solid state on the brink of extinction? The "tube sound" and the "solid state sound" relate to the distortion spectrum characteristic of these devices when used in a linear amplifier. In a digital amplifier, the characteristics of the ouput devices, tubes or transistors, are irrelevant ... | |
| True Fully Balanced Amplifiers Any stereo amp operated in bridged mode. | |
| Ageless Music? Scot Joplin's ragtime will still be enjoyed a hundred years from now.Leroy Anderson combined popular music with classical values in a way that is unique. Many people are (were) familiar with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops, but the secret is th... | |
| What's the oldest piece of gear in your system? Luxman T14 FM Tuner. As good as any audiowise, and by far the most beautiful. | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? Newbee...As usual this thread has strayed far from its original intent. I did identify my favorite, the 5th, as per the question of the thread. What stirred up all the talk was my suggestion that the others are not up to their godlike reputations,... | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? Evidently one cannot make any criticism of Beethoven in this company without being acused of being ignorant. For what it's worth, my appreciation of classical music, including Beethoven, dates from about 1948 when I attended a musically oriented b... | |
| Which Beethoven's symphony do you like the best? Marakanetz...Yes, Beethoven was innovative, in fact that was the major criticism of him in his own time.If you think that Mozart was not creative you need to do some more thinking. If "inovation" is the key to Beethoven then "creativity" describes... | |
| What bugs you most about sound quality? Onhwy61...I guess it is a matter of degree. "Moderate" compression/peak limiting, such as that which is necessary because of limited recording dynamic range, can be undone on playback with pretty good results. And more extreme processing like Dolb... | |
| Recomendation for speakers BEST for Piano? OK all you Kazoo builders! Your turn in the barrel. | |
| Best SACD for under $1200 Underwoodhifi.com for the Denon 2900 mod. | |
| What bugs you most about sound quality? Onhwy61...Compression/peak limiting can indeed be undone during playback so as to restore, or even enhance, the original dynamic range. The issue is that with analog logic the playback expansion will always be slightly behind the sound, so that th... | |
| Dayton Audio Interconnects and speaker cables I recently bought quite a few short ones, 18 inches, for connections between components in the rack. They are well made, and the construction configuration includes the features that are usually touted by the super-expensive wires as contributing ... | |
| Have you ever deceived your wife-audio purchase Why is this question limited to audio gear? | |
| What bugs you most about sound quality? I didn't know that compression was so widely dispised! If you really do have such a big problem with it, why not get a hold of a dynamic range expander/peak unlimiter and put it in your playback system? |