gbmcleod
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| All in One amp up to $7k Aesthetix Mimas integrated. Hybrid. Dual mono tube preamp, solid state amp. 180 watts. 360w into 4 ohms. | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? If one knows how to dance, one knows pace, rhythm and timing. In dance, it’s where you put your foot down on the beat. Not so much in ballet but very much present in African-Jazz or pure jazz dance. It’s not a complex concept. Been around for ages... | |
| Audio Cables: All the Same? @mclinnguy thank you for an intelligent, considerate, response. I am sure that you are correct and that you can hear cable changes, even with pop music. I can hear them too, with all kinds of music, but well-recorded classical and jazz have more... | |
| Audio Cables: All the Same? @jmeyers I agree with you completely. I no longer pay any attention to the you-must-be-crazy-to-think-you-hear-differences-in-audio-cable crowd. BUT, I suspect that there are three factors that figure into this: The biggest one is: 1) They hav... | |
| Nordost Heimdall 2 or Tyr 2 digital cables @akg_ca I have to input my experience regarding Valhalla and Tyr. As someone who has Tyr 2, and Valhalla 1, I find the Tyr 2 to be quite good, and quite a jump over the Frey 2, which I had for many years. And not nearly as "thin-sounding" as Va... | |
| Need Opinions for Different Cable Manufacturers/Cable Designs Well, I have Shunyata, Nordost and Transparent cables. Of those, the Shunyata has the lowest noise floor (so that I can hear the subway moving underneath the concert hall on The Nutracker Suite (Mercury Living Presence). All the cables reproduce t... | |
| What % Of Your System Are Your Cables? I am with Steakster and dougthebiker. My system is approximately 35% of total cost. As for cables having "no effect," well, the myth is more accurately the belief that they DON’T have any effect. Of course they do. Anyone with considerable experi... | |
| Solid State Preamp to replace tube unit @ambrusso Keep in mind that tubes have a great sense of dimensionality, and solid state will not have that to anywhere near that degree, although you may have more "solid’ bass with solid state. I have an NAD C399 (Class D) and I like it, but I f... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? @mapman "Bloom" is something mostly heard in live music, and rarely in reproduced (recorded) music (and the systems most of us have). It is when the harmonics (overtones) of an instrument (or an orchestra) spread outwards in space, the way it d... | |
| Goldmund Studio I had a Goldmund Studio back in 1986. It was the most accurate of turntables back then. Not locked in in the bass the way the SOTA Star Sapphire was, or weak in the bass as the Oracle turntables. It was astoundingly open and dynamic at all frequen... | |
| Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse Yes, truly HORRIBLE!!! | |
| ???What's The LEAST Expensive "End Game"Amplifier You've Ever Heard??? Well, I could be part of the "no such thing" group, but, having been a part of the state-of-the-art club back in the late, late, late 20th century (it sounds very odd to type that, as though it was waaaayyyy back in ’The Dinosaur Age’!!), I’ve fou... | |
| Apogee Calipers worth anything If you can get it repaired, it's a good speaker. I had them back in 1985 - before I got WATTS. But for parts?? I dunno. | |
| Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse @celo The Avalon Eclipse is a splendid speaker. And it has one trait, almost NO other speaker has (I owned it back in the 1990s, along with the Ascents) and that is, a vanishingly low "grain." With the right amp, the view into the soundstage wil... | |
| Do your ears deceive you? Yes, and I noticed that the violinmaker in your article - who was part of the research team that administered the test - was very surprised they couldn’t identify what they were playing. I’m guessing that Henryk Szeryng could identify them, since... |