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| Neville Marriner & ASMF touring Well Opal, you have a once in a lifetime experience -- good for you! I mean that regardless of whether the performance was reference or not: it's the rarity of the experience that counts. | |
| For Past & Present Sonus Faber Stradivari Owners I heard the Strads several times -- but only driven by the same ss amplification (yba passion).Medium sized room (¬350 or 35m2). Generalising: Nice sound, on the polite side, not aggressive, not lacking in upper mids & his (i.e. much of what w... | |
| 2-ways and 3-ways If the "3" is the bass then 2 way is superior. Why? Bass does not load in a room in the same physical location as the highs and mids.Well, I agree, even though 2-way usually *isn't* superior!BTW, you can get the lower mids/bass channel to mate wit... | |
| I Have 100K for Speakers? Zigonht -Even if I wanted to spend 30k AND had wifes approval I don't think my ears could tell differences enough to be cost effective..I'm suggesting that yr ears will tell an appreciable difference up to around that price level. The answer to th... | |
| I Have 100K for Speakers? There has to be a point where the $$ spent has no relation to the sound you get. I'm just questioning the point as to when does this get kind of silly..Frankly speaking, I wouldn't know an absolute answer. It gets silly when the sonic result is tr... | |
| Deep Cleaning Records With Steam? The quality of water used is primordial it seems: I steam- cleaned a few old LPs (cleaning solution, brushing, steaming, wiping, and again) the result is better sonically BUT with the addition of pops which weren't there before. I also notice the ... | |
| Whats with the Watts ?? RodmanOur hearing is logarithmic, while the db or power scale is linear.Oh my goodness, Rod, no! dB IS a logarithmic scale; Our ears: you are obviously referring to the "equal loudness chart" or phon -- which is a measured and plotted... "chart" -... | |
| The Ten Rules of high-end audio When you are building up a high end system (....) you should ask yourself(....): What are the goals I'm striving for?Absolutely indispensable and the only reasonably approach to have, IME/IMO, etc. In fact, this should rule No1 !What can I expect ... | |
| Are horns and hi-eff designs becoming more popular I feel they are but wonder what others think?Hi-eff & horns in particular seem to have picked up mkt-share. Personal experience and a few dealers here & there, of course, no hard facts. By hi-eff I mean +97dB spl, btw.Another (possible) tr... | |
| Which Super Integrated Amp to drive planars? Which spkrs are you driving? It helps to know -- otherwise, how can one recommend a specific amp?As things stand, any of the amps you've listed (and I would add the Plinius, as above) will give you +20-25dB spl over the spkrs' ref level... | |
| How do you know when a cartridge has broken in? I understand the theory of what occurs but in real-world experience, how exactly do you know?Aurally, it sounds smoother and more extended on either end of its fr. It probably tracks slightly better as the suspension softens a bit.Is the effect su... | |
| Stand out phono stages I notice that Zanden, ASR and Boulder were mentioned twice. Is that a clue that they're better? ;-)As a matter of fact, the expensive Boulder is a very good phono. The asr is also OK -- but without the same level of performance (or I just don't li... | |
| Direct connection of CD to Power amp I have experienced a great deal of sound quality improvement in direct connection of cd to power amp. Any opinion on this?Fpoo -- are you asking for my opinion on your experience of improvement???It's good you are satisfied -- I've done it too. Bu... | |
| Damping factor or watts? There are reasons (immaterial here) why some ribbon devices may sound slightly better with a medium DF than an extremely high one -- hence the use by some of tube amps.Otherwise, your system looks fine on screen -- so the problem must be in the li... | |
| phono stage placement 1m or 0,6m are the usual standards between table & phono. Use a low capacitance cable if you can (low inductance of course).You don't need that long a cable anyway. Just place the phono next to the TT. |