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| BEST SPEAKER THAT COMES TO LIFE AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS Don't expect the speaker alone to be good at low listening levels. That is also a trait of your amplifier and preamp/linestage. If they do not BOTH have good low level abilities, it won't happen. Most electrostatics and ribbons fare pretty well a... | |
| Room setting: new amp or new speakers? Since the amp is the weak link, the smartest move is to get a new amp so you can hear what your speakers sound like with an amp that can lift them to the skies! You should hear the speakers at their BEST before thinking of getting rid of them. At ... | |
| The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues. @devinplombier 10 pairs of WAMMs were sold in the ‘80s, if I am recalling Dave correctly. And most of those in the VERY early ‘80s. | |
| Is more amp power always better...? Late again, but some thoughts. Never buy just "watts." All watts are not equal. I would want something with good wattage, outstanding ability to deliver current, and the amp is not ’cool-sounding’ or ’warm-sounding.’ I’d want musc to sound like w... | |
| Pass XP-17 and Hana ML loading question I have a Hana ML, which I've had for a few years and used in OL Silver and now The Encounter, loaded - as always - at 47k (well, unloaded). And it sounds fantastic. | |
| Origin Live Silver Mk4 tonearm install issues That's odd. When I emailed them last year, they responded within 3 days. Maybe someone got sick, but it's unusual for them to be so lax about responding. I've had their products for 20 years and have had questions, which they answered. | |
| Audio Cables: All the Same? Cables do not sound the same to my ears, or else every cable would make a Yamaha and Gemeinhardt flute sound the same tonally. They sound quite different on MIT’s cable than they do on Transparent, Nordost, or Shunyata cables. Who knew??? Please ... | |
| The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues. @glennewdick The WATTS are 40 years old. They came out in 1984. | |
| The $27,900 disappointment? Wilson Audio Watt Puppy 8 issues. I owned WATTS back in 1986 and through until Series 4. And then Puppies when they came out in 1988. I'm not sure what is "wrong" about them sonically, if one has heard them - and owned them - at length. What's the "nightmare" aspect of the speake... | |
| The Best Isolation/ Vibration Footers per component - what's your experience? I have Critical Mass Center Stage 2m footers, but before that: Nordost titanium, and then Sort Kones, IsoPlat, Stillpoints (Ultra Mini Risers and Ultra 5) and Goldmund Cones. The Center Stage is dazzling, killing off as it does, the vibration insi... | |
| Time of Day for best Sound Back in the 1980s, there was much discussion about how music sounded better at night - and why in the pages of Stereophile and TAS. Well, the "why" of it is that fewer people are using their electricity as the evening moves on, so the draw on the ... | |
| Origin Live Silver Mk4 tonearm install issues I have an origin Live Silver, and an Encounter MK3C. They should drop in easily, but I suspect the nut on the base is too loose on yours. Use an adjustable wrench to tighten it. | |
| Question about high current amps versus "not high current amps" @dishman442 I agree that listening is the way to go. It's served me well in the past 40 years of evaluating equipment. | |
| Nordost Frey 2; what should I expect? @4425 Perhaps the people saying "bright" and "thin" were listening to a pair that weren’t fully broken in. Or, they didn’t know the system and they automatically blamed it on the Nordost. This happens a lot; people blaming the new component wh... | |
| What contributes most to a change in how an amplifier sounds? An amplifier's "sound" is only apparent when connected to cables and a speaker. So it could depend on the capacitance of the speaker cable, or any steep phase angles the speaker has. And, as mentioned, the power supply, which is why the average ... |