georgehifi
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| Coupling vs Decoupling jdeickhoff the floor is a second story carpeted wood floor in a bonus room above the garage. The TV and components sit directly on a wood console Always de-couple your speakers and equipment from a wooden floor even if it's carpeted, unless you ... | |
| Cary 805 questions; with Sonus Faber Amati Homage speakers What I was asking is whether in 100% of the cases an apparent mismatch in impedance and Power between amp and speakers results in degradation of the musical experience. It can very well be regarded as a degradation, but it's not the only one t... | |
| Cary 805 questions; with Sonus Faber Amati Homage speakers Does the math ever not manifest in overall presentation? Is this really an open and shut case? The math and the measurements are primary feature in the design of any amp, then the designer listens to his creation. And if not happy, they go back... | |
| Cary 805 questions; with Sonus Faber Amati Homage speakers Cary 805 questions; with Sonus Faber Amati Homage speakers Sorry montaldo never, not in anyones lifetime, with this SF’s impedance curve. You’ll have very little bass power, and a very peaked up upperbass and mid. https://www.stereophile.com/imag... | |
| Does this image give you claustrophobia? Julie Mullens of TAS heard the new McIntosh speakers with even more minds and tweets driven by McIntosh equipment and was gushing over them. Go figure. Ask yourself, do they advertise in Tas?They’ve had many reviews done in the last couple of yea... | |
| Does this image give you claustrophobia? Can you imagine, how those 64 x midranges and 40 x tweeters could possibly all work in perfect unison without any smearing at all??? they’d have to be ultra matched not to.https://ucarecdn.audiogon.com/6fc4a677-a038-403d-8f63-fead7daca816/-/autoro... | |
| More discrete R2R dac's, Cyan 3 different models. US site: https://kitsunehifi.com/product/holo-audio-cyan/Cheers George | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? It was a demo’d in Sydney by the Maggie importer at the time at a clients converted warehouse who used k-horn, amps used were bought along by Allen Wright (rip), which were heavily modded tube theatre mono block amps and bought my massive water co... | |
| Synergestic Black Fuse vs Audio Magic BeesWax I concur with Goergehifi’s point regarding corroded fuses. Corroded wouldn’t be the right word, I think stressed through many turn on currents and more crystallisation is more the way to explain it, which will "harden" the fuse element, and caus... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? horns can image as well as any other tech. This is a false statement.Klipsch, set up correctly, they can " disappear " as well as any other design. However, imaging and sound staging are not the attributes that I enjoy most about them +1 MrD"W... | |
| Bitstream Dac's They could replace a $40 16 bit DAC with a $2 1 bit Bitstream DAC and 90% of people could not tell the difference. And this is the reason why R2R Multibit dac chips ceased to be manufactured, because they were too expensive even though they are t... | |
| best preamps I'm ashamed about my Schiit Freya...it's not expensive enough to be taken seriously, and although it sounds fabulous it engenders scorn and shunning by high end audio geeks who spend multiples of its cost on other things This is typical of many... | |
| Op amp Rolling? Yes they were standard fitment in many Shanlings, especially the earlier T100 4 transformer R2R players, they sounded very good. One of Thorsten Loesch’s (AMR) favourite players. Today demand top dollar used.http://www.enjoythemusic.com/magazine/e... | |
| Op amp Rolling? The OPA627 is one of the most faked opamps around. It's a really great opamp, just make sure you get it from a "Texas Instruments" approved distributors. Or you will end up with a fake and say it's so so and nothing to write home about.These type ... | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? Mostly a speaker that has a narrower highs and upper mids "hot spot" (beaming) is the better at imaging eg: quads (especially 57’s), ML’s, Acoustat most esl’s, ribbons tweeters and Maggie longer full length ribbon ones. Horns tend to give a wall o... |