erasmusj
Responses from erasmusj
| CD format war and resultant music players A lot of people have been working very hard for a long time to optimize CD playback. The likelihood of a leap forward at this point is very remote.I think the issue here is not so much sound quality, but convenience. When you have thousands of CD'... | |
| CD format war and resultant music players One of the important advantages of both SACD and DVD-A is that it forces the recording studios and music companies to pay some attention to the sounds below 100 Hz and above 12 Khz, to use better microphones, and generally not process the sound to... | |
| When showing your system to others, what do you do I found many years ago that I kept better friends when I never demonstrated my system at all. This was especially true of female company. People just don't relate to the "my toys are better than your toys" scenario especially when the implication ... | |
| Many reviewers will lead you down the wrong path. Mmakshak.Actually this wasn't my thinking, this has been my experience of innumerable amplifiers over a period of 30 years. The specs of for example the NuForce IA-7 are good but not stellar. I might be tempted to audition it if I were in the mark... | |
| Many reviewers will lead you down the wrong path. Nothing a reviewer says about a particular product has any meaning because his frame of reference is undefined. Even when they compare products the comparison used is often unknown, unavailable or unusual in some way (deliberately I think).I know ... | |
| Am I a burning out audiophile???? I have to agree that the room is the most likely culprit. In time as you listen you may identify the room resonances that may be present. There is lots of material on this site about room treatment. There is a simple way to test the theory. Cover ... | |
| Fidelity Research MC201 m/c...still a cult item? I believe the "cult" status of the MC201 was a figment of marketing imagination. It came after the FR1MK3F which did and still has such status. I purchased my MC201 in about 1985 because I could not afford the cost of the service replacement charg... | |
| Vinyl or wait for the new stuff?? Buying old vinyl is a bit like gambling on the horses. You remember the good recordings at bargain prices (wins) and forget the unplayable junk (losses). In reality LP's cost more than CD's when you take the real costs into account. The situation ... | |
| Bi-amping Question? Apologies - I did not know that running pairs of amplifiers through the passive crossover was also referred to as bi-amping. I tried this years ago and was disappointed. Recently I managed to get the right equipment together for actively biamping ... | |
| Bi-amping Question? You still need to have a crossover between the preamp and the amplifier. If you don't, then you risk of destroying the drivers (and seriously degrading the sound). Alternatively if you leave the speaker crossovers in circuit then you are simply ru... | |
| Biamping Questions Biamping is a major undertaking. You need to get the crossover frequency and balance between the drivers exactly right. Hard to do without some measuring equipment and a good grasp of the theory. Impossible to do in the average noisy, reflective l... | |
| What's best for Tannoy D-700s? Thanks Beranrose for your response. The main concentric driver on the D900 comes in at about my head height when sitting down so I don't have the same problem. The D700 is a few inches shorter than the D900 so I can see where the problem is coming... | |
| What's best for Tannoy D-700s? I have the similar but larger D900's. I found that positioning the speakers correctly and damping the room reflections had a much bigger influence on the sound than changing the amplifier. After damping the room reflections with wall hangings or w... | |
| ESS speakers "Translinear" Transstatic I purchased my ESS AMT Monitors in 1982. I used them in a large room with thick carpeting, absorbent ceiling panels and curtains on three side from ceiling to floor. I listened to them with a powerful SAE amplifier usually running pretty much flat... |