goatwuss
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| What are the advantages of a line array design? Big, dynamic sound, and great bass response are some advantages. Small rooms need not apply | |
| Phonomena, vs PS GCPH, Others? I use the GCPH on a low gain cart (AT33PTG, 0.5MV), with no hum, and plenty of gain with my active preamp.Sounds good - but not comments on GCPH vs Phonomena. I doubt you can go wrong with either | |
| Does the wilson sophia 1 sound good only with perf The sophias are a high resolution pair of speakers. If there is a problem with your setup, you will hear it through the sophias. Alternatively, if things are setup right, the majority of your recordings will sound fantastic.I'd look deeper into ro... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound STP I think his point was that in the context of a preamp (or any other component) transparency usually is a good thing. Bad stereo equipment homogenizes sound and makes different recordings sound similar.If a recording is bad, the better audio equipm... | |
| B&W 805D vs. Dynaudio Contour S1.4 "A few years back when I was looking for monitors I auditioned the 805D and the S1.4." -GoatwussThe 805D is a recent model. There's no way you auditioned it "a few years back".Sorry guys, it must have been the 805S that I was talking about. I stro... | |
| What's the latest word on the Emotiva UMC-1? "My friends and I don't "think" we can beat Audessey. We know we can as we've easily improved on it time after time."You never really answered my question above. Are you "beating" Audessey with an 11 band graphic EQ, with fixed frequencies and no ... | |
| What's the latest word on the Emotiva UMC-1? Of course setting up any audio system starts with the best speaker placement you can get, and well thought out room treatments. Audessey or any other manual or automatic EQ is assumed to take place after all of the physical acoustics work is done.... | |
| Von Schweikert VR-1 question The VR1 are awesome, I'd suggest not worrying about it and just going for them. They're friendly to cheaper gear, but as you improve the other components they will continue to sound better. They are room friendly, and just a an easy to use and eas... | |
| Has anybody heard the new Mcintosh MC302/MC452? I hope this lowers resale on the MCD402! | |
| What's the latest word on the Emotiva UMC-1? Just out of curiosity, Rob when you say that you and your audiophile friends can "tune" better than a well-implemented auto-room EQ ie. Audessey, what exactly are you referring to?To my knowledge, there aren't many transparent and flexible paramet... | |
| can the VA Beethoven Baby Grands ROCK? Larry is right.If you want to ROCK, you need to move a lot of air, and you need to extend down low. 6" bass drivers need not apply.Vienna Acoustics will do a good job at making the majority of your collection sound palatable, but you will obscure ... | |
| B&W 805D vs. Dynaudio Contour S1.4 A few years back when I was looking for monitors I auditioned the 805D and the S1.4. IMO the Dynaudio is by far the better speaker. Much more dynamic, the tweeter is better, the build quality is much more solid. Not that the B&W is bad, it's a... | |
| Wilson MAXX How big is the room? If you're not pushing 400+ square feet minimum, then you are too small for the Maxx. | |
| VPI Scout to Michell Orbe SE Stringreen - I would like to make it clear that the arm was setup about as well as humanly possible. I have a long documented thread on here (with sound clips illustrating the sibilance, and photo evidence that each setup parameter was spot on, sp... | |
| VPI Scout to Michell Orbe SE I went from a Scoutmaster with the Jmw9sig to the Orbe w/ Tecnoarm.I am very happy with the change. I never really got off on the right foot with the VPI as I had sibilance problems with it, but I am really happy with the Orbe. The VPIs make a sol... |