gmood1
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| Montana Owners NY/NJ/PA LOL... Bombaywalla it's a small world!!! I've thought about this many times. I just never bothered asking Oz as he seemed to be on a mission with the speaker hunt. :-)I also wouldn't mind giving the GMA speakers you own a whirl. GMA IMHO makes som... | |
| Is live reproduction the goal of audio? From what one poster points out, I must be one of the few audiophiles that almost exclusively listens to live recordings..hopefully this is not true. Overly compressed music makes me tense. So I don't bother buying it or listening to it on my syst... | |
| Montana Owners NY/NJ/PA Hey Oz..it doesn't take me long to figure out if I could live with a speaker. I could easily live with those SP2s and be happy. Upgrading can sometime actually be downgrading in sound if you know what I mean.Just because you spend more doesn't mea... | |
| Listening Fatique- componet or speaker issue. Tim with all due respect, Even though the speakers come from the same company. They don't necessarily use the same crossovers or design. From looking at the latest specs on the Forest, it shouldn't sound forward or bright.The Forest should sound f... | |
| Does one NEED multiple amps? All I need is one good amplifier. One good tubed line-stage can give me all the colours I need..just by changing tubes. | |
| Montana Owners NY/NJ/PA I've heard Oz's setup briefly. It sounds fantastic!!!Definitely one of the best setups I've had the pleasure of listening to. For some reason Oz..I knew you would be back with the Montanas. I wondered why you never tried a different model of PBN t... | |
| Listening Fatique- componet or speaker issue. LOL ..Line..yeah live unamplified music isn't purposely hyped in the treble by 6dB either.That's not counting the difference in dbs above the midrange. This would put the treble closer to 10 dB above it. This is why you can be wowed without having... | |
| Listening Fatique- componet or speaker issue. Phd makes a very good point.Something I was thinking but didn't type. Some speakers are designed to WoW you from the start. It isn't till later when you discover it was all a facade. I have discovered as he the ones that grow on you over time are ... | |
| Listening Fatique- componet or speaker issue. Yes in way of speaking they do colour the sound. The speakers are designed to fool you into believing there's more bass output than actually exist. The treble is bumped up well over the lower midrange to give the impression. If your room is bare i... | |
| Listening Fatique- componet or speaker issue. From what I can tell. Your problem could be the combination of several things going on at once. That speaker is peaky by nature of its design Totem Rainmaker measurements. There's a peak from around 5khz beyond 10khz. This could be one of the fact... | |
| Best preamp is no preamp: always true? Yes I have. I've tried this with my passive integrated. It sounds much better when you have the active gain stage involved.Without it the sound is clear and precise but a tad thin without the help from a tube linestage. After trying it both ways I... | |
| Efficient speakers v. less efficient speakers Ditto..these are the differences I hear between my system using 50 wpc and a friends system that uses an amplifier that puts out 800 wpc. His speakers are very inefficient (83dB) with a wicked load. It sounds a little slow by comparison on the sam... | |
| DAC for $1800 or less? I'm with Clio09 on the NON OS DAC for the most analog presentation in redbook. The designer of the Audio Sector DAC uses the ML360S as a reference while he designed his DAC.The last time I checked the price in the traditional chassis was $750.00 n... | |
| Sound of chip amps / gainclones? Hi Tony..you should hear the Patek on a speaker with no crossovers and a fair impedance. Believe me ..the amplifer is extremely transparent when not bogged down by crossovers and wild impedance swings. I would expect the D-225 to come out on top w... | |
| Sound of chip amps / gainclones? Honestly I wouldn't have a clue my friend. As far as I can tell you have a great system as is. I haven't spent enough time with the Pass amplifiers or any time with the VR4 to make a judgement. Since VS doesn't publish response graphs it's tough t... |