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| Reaplce Thiel 3.6's Tweeter Just to state the obvious: have you asked Thiel? One reason why the tweet may sound hot is the soft xover -- if you're a diyer try a 8-10ohm resistor on it. If NOT a diyer DON'T do anything. Just place the 3,6 w/out toe-in, then slowly introduce t... | |
| Bladelius Gondul anyone heard this player? Ozzy I want a 500k house. In fact, round it out to a $1m:^).For the rest, I'll settle for a 10k car, a bicycle, and few thousand music items. In fact I already HAVE the car, the bicycle, the music (never enough of that). It's the house that evades... | |
| "oldskool" tonearms Not wishing to proxy for Thomas Mackris -- but in answer to the Scroder question yes, it's good. Also quite user-friendly, simple really (maybe not as easy to make as it looks).I have an old (vintage) arm, not a Schroder; but it's a contemporary a... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Pabelson, thanks for yr kind words, but the quotes you make refer to another poster -- or are they there to illustrate yr previous points?Qualia sez: other things being equal, a beautiful soprano actually *sounds* better in the typical soprano rol... | |
| Kharma Midi vs. Sonus Faber Stradivari Amati Brani, old sport, if I ever buy SF I promise I will favour the Anni over the Strads:^)"Briefly at a dealers" -- you are correctly assuming that it's too short to judge. But, you see, the dealer's room is excellent (with acoustic treatment) & I... | |
| What does 'Fast mean? Newmanoc: actually I think you're right in that "pratt" probably originated with Naim when the two Cos were working closely together. THEN the Linn marketing/sales people did quite a lot of use of that with their dealers. It;s gone out of fashion ... | |
| Kharma Midi vs. Sonus Faber Stradivari Amati Actually I've to listened the Strads (alone) on a few occasions lately.Generally speaking please note that WE have to place/"integrate" the two spkrs correctly, it's not really the spkrs that "integrate" (for well designed products of course).Now ... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? the illusion is the false reality. Kinda by definitionThat is correct, semantically. It's also kinda philosophical. IMO we should distinguish between semantics and philosophical extrapolations and the simple PRACTICAL application of DBT in our (re... | |
| High Pass a hard-to-drive speaker - Now Easy???? Duke: one octave for 9db?? I was banking on the standard +6db energy/octave. Can you give a quick pointer on how you obtain this (I'm sincerely interested -- not contesting :)). Cheers | |
| New tube amp for ML Prodigy CAT, VTL, ARC???? Unless s/thing has changed, the Prodigys are much more difficult than the new Soundlabs. So an OTL may run into unnecessary trouble driving them -- i.e. not perform at its intended best. This would be a shame as the "best" with Atma is indeed exce... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? DBT assumes that we have to justify our purchases to others as in science; we do not have to do soActually that's an interesting take.Yet, there's a lot of emotion and correspondingly little logic in the vehement assertions contained in many posts... | |
| What does 'Fast mean? Stupendous amount of interesting (and some not so interesting) posts, few of which addressed the original question: simply, when one says "fast" what does one mean (speaking of reproduced sound).Generally, it's what Seandtaylor wrote. Whether it's... | |
| High Pass a hard-to-drive speaker - Now Easy???? Should be able to, using a line level filter & bypassing the internal hi & low passes on the b/pass section.OTOH, you'll have to pray that tonality & voicing b/ween the different amps are compatible -- because you'll hear the bass amp,... | |
| Kharma Midi vs. Sonus Faber Stradivari Amati Did you listen to old Amati or new Amati Anniversario, and was it in the same room where you heard StradivariThe new model and the same room. Actually didn't find the Anni particularly fussy to set up. The Strads were a bit more complicated to set... | |
| Don't let this happen to you seems there are different etiquettes at different locations /Too many rules for the average Joe Not really "rules" IMO, as much as musicians having to concentrate a bit after all. A movement is not an intermission, it's part of a piece of music, s... |