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| ATC SCM 40 v 2 and tube amplifiers I have, driven by Canary Audio 330s (monoblocks 25-30W / channel). The result was underwhelmingly syrupy, lacked dynamics and low-end and sounded limited in the high frequencies. That said, the Canary amps are great products, and so are the 40SCM ... | |
| Benchmark Preamps and Amp - For real? I have listened to the AHB2, in mono configuration and they were spectacular. Serious drive, clarity, and dynamic headroom. They were driving a pair of Watt-Puppies, then a pair of Alexandrias. The A's bottomed them out, but the sonic result was g... | |
| Replacing Vintage Spendors is not as easy as I thought I second jsautter above, what your ears are rejecting is the tweeter attack of contemporary speaker design.Having said this, new Spendors 2/3 or the smaller Harbeths are an evolution of your own spkrs sound.Otherwise, try the smaller ATC models, t... | |
| Manufacturers pushing their products and agenda in the forums. Wasn’t there a rule that non-hobbyists (manufacturers & dealers) had to disclose their profession on each post? | |
| The Science of Cables @geofkait:characteristics like solid long grain copperWould it have similar properties to long grain rice, do you think? | |
| Vinyl vs high def audio i.e. 24bit / 96 or 192khz I can offer another reason why people may be attracted to vinyl: its user-friendliness, i.e. it's fussy but I understand it.I have a high-performance digital front-end (pc-based music server-reclocker-dac, etc) and two TTs. When the server is down... | |
| Importance of impedance matching cartridge with phono stage? Hi. The quick response is that most people aren't even aware of this little detail (i.e.getting the loading correct) and live their lives complaining about the mediocre sound.The second point is that most cartridges play reasonably well @~100ohms ... | |
| Buying three hunderds 2$ classical CD in one week. I had totally missed the Living Stereo compilation—thanks for sharing! Now if only we could have the 24/192 files... | |
| Vindication at Last! | |
| Vindication at Last! @relROTFLMAO! | |
| Display off- any benefit? No discernible difference here either, when using my cdp (a Magnat tube) or my big cdp (Absolute, ideon audio) or both off. Then I discovered that the Absolute has a totally separate circuit for the display. The cdp, however, doesn’t... so no big ... | |
| A DAC that can make digital sound analog? @ brettmcee I have a serious suspicion that frequencies above 20kHz and below 20kHz are more detrimental than beneficial to audio reproduction. I beg to differ, esp above 20kHz; the sense of space, clarity, and "smoothness" are directly influenced... | |
| question about Thiel CS 2 As far as I remember, the CS-2s I listened to aeons ago had bass; so it's either a matter of speaker placement or the amp can't drive them, probably the latter as the sound is tinny. (Is your amp powerful enough to drive them?)Anyway, I liked what... | |
| Super Simple theory on speaker cables I meant slew rate, of course | |
| Super Simple theory on speaker cables @Erik Interesting, thanks for sharing.I’ll have to check my cables characteristics! Empirically, I find that slightly capacitive ICs seem to perform slightly better — by which I mean a better sense of clarity & air, i.e. clearer stronger upper... |