gregm
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| What would you do differently? Nothing (fortunately). I'm in Avguy's "haves" category -- but lucky: my partner loves music and we go to many live concerts. So, resolution, clarity & natural timbres are a must. She loves the likes of Rachmaninoff, Orff, Brahms or Jamiroquai ... | |
| What music is best for an Audiophile Society Meeting? Let me add Mahler 5 with Basbirolli on EMI: great recordings of the century. Nice dynamics to test cones, ribbons et alia within reason: brother compressor has hit it too, with little pity. But still.For speed & rythm, Jamiroquai: Synkronized ... | |
| Preamps - Active, passive...??? Bob, aren't dynamics a matter of impedance matching? (output, pre vs. input, power: ratio of 1:10 at least?) | |
| Is Genesis out of business? As Albert Porter intimated, Genesis --the speaker people-- are invisible / inaudible / inaccessible. I have e-mailed them repeatedly. No answer. They *did* (do?) make great speakers. If they do sell speakers, I'm not sure they have customer servic... | |
| What does one do with old outdated audio equipment? With all due respect to suggestions above, I would second Hello's & Sd's: one simple, kind gesture can bring unbeleivable happiness to many others!Cheers. | |
| Audio Museum...what would you want? In line with the idea of a museum, most of this stuff has historical value. TT: Goldmund Reference w/arm /Ortofon 3000, Linn LP12/Valhalla, S. Yorke S4 "Zarathustra"/pluto 5 (long) arm/transfiguration. Speakers: original Klipch with central unit/Q... | |
| This is bugging me Another scenario: make your own. Buy a long run of 8 or so AWG, double-shielded, Belden (or whatever the local rat-shack can propose). Buy a hospital grade IEC and wall plug. Looking at the IEC with the ground on top (apex of the triangle, so to s... | |
| best preamp under 500 for cheap, poor student Subdoofus: are you looking for a video/audio pre? If so, you'll need one that supports multichannel (pass through feature) -- for surround. But what exactly is wrong, to your ears or eyes, w/ your system that a pre would solve? Assuming it's the s... | |
| Cable options for Sonus Faber EA II speakers? I beleive you need a fast and tonally accurate cable with top end extension. You may want to add Bearlabs to your list. Nordost Valhalla sounded good -- with ss gear -- but the cost is very high.Pls try before you buy: others' sonic taste may diff... | |
| Market Research in High End Market I think I remember Linn's annual T-O was USD: c. 20 mill. in 1998. But this would include their low-end gear, ofcourse. Although published b-sheets of the companies you mention could be a route to follow, there would be no way of knowing which par... | |
| Anyone under 30? Aroc: seems like you have a clear investment objective. I'm not sure which of the two -- autos or hi-end -- is more expensive. At least the price a a giga has dropped steadily these past few years. More than one can say about the price of the Watt... | |
| How much power have you got under the hood? The MF had a warm sound akin to traditional (i.e. old) tubes, with some off the roll-off of those tubes. Note: with SPENDOR speakers (that's all I remember). Also, I don't remember the MF being fast... I do NOT remember MF having similar sound to ... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Looking back at this thread, I wonder at the validity of my suggestion(s). Speakers, being at the end of the chain, are definitively system dependent -- apart from their inherent engineering quality, ofcourse. I wonder whether I have really *heard... | |
| Market Research in High End Market Hi Abstract: Sony (marketing) Europe, allegedly, has such a value/volume report, from 1999. The definition of the hi-end market is made according to their own product category classification...Research conducted in relation to their SACD and surro... | |
| mark levinsn would this be an upgrade Pepito: reference to how "good" the "amplified" (hence, watts) sound emanating from the amp is. In short, how close the amplified sound is to the input signal from the preamplifier. Amplifiers' power is, customarily, expressed in watts so, a music... |