helomech
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| Walk-in soundstage Are you sure? Let me ask you or ask yourself, if your DAC gives you wall of sound like many entry level or mid-tier DACs do, how are you going to achieve that? 100% positive. Yes, a walk-in soundstage is indeed >/= 90% room and speakers. T... | |
| Walk-in soundstage A “walk-in” soundstage is 90% the room and speaker placement. I first heard this effect at Acoustic Sounds. I have since achieved it in my system but it took room treatment to get there. No DAC or source is going to be responsible for achievin... | |
| I'm a little perplexed/surprised by TMR and who sells to them..... Sold a couple REL subs through consignment with TMR. The process was painless and I netted an amount that is good enough considering what I originally paid for them. TMR doesn’t get consigners top dollar but it does list items at above typical ma... | |
| Would You Rather Own A Good SET Amp, Or A Great Push Pull Amp? Meanwhile, I am still heartbroken about losing the amp, and by minutes. Something almost certainly never recoverable from. Eight years of effort, and hope, lost all at once. Well, if it’s any consolation, I usually find that when I’ve placed ... | |
| ??? Where Does "High End" Start ??? IME, it starts at whatever point you can finally relax and get off the upgrade train. That requires synergy. It doesn’t matter how much you spend if you don’t have synergy, and a good room in which to place the synergistic gear. | |
| CODA 8 V1 I have read that Coda gear sounds “dry”. I’ve not heard any but I would like to somehow. Of everything I have read it all sounds like the sound I am looking for except for the “dry” part. My No.11 is definitely drier sounding than the No.8, t... | |
| CODA 8 V1 The No.8 is a nice sounding amp. Better than much of what is out there. Definitely better than the Ayre V-5XE I tried. The latter was quite grainy in comparison. I wanted to upgrade to a No.16 but couldn’t bring myself to shell out the dough, so... | |
| What A Drag It Is Getting Old I am only approaching “mid life” (whatever that means) years, but I occasionally have moments like this. It’s funny though, it was much worse a few years back when I wasn’t taking good care of my health. It helps that are brains are rather mallea... | |
| Need Integrated amplifier The Axxess Forté line of integrateds are equipped with incredibly good DACs and have HT bypass. Their primary distortion signature is second harmonic which is possibly what accounts for their great sound quality. Also have nice remotes and a si... | |
| Do you have a speaker that’s not a big name maker but punches above its weight? Why? Philharmonic. All of their speakers are excellent and well priced for what you get. Their customer service is also outstanding in my experience. Ditto. They will promptly answer nearly any question you have about their products. Their ... | |
| DIY Speaker Kits, a good idea? I have built/assembled the Seas A26 and Satori Helios Textreme kits available from Madisound. In both cases I concluded the resulting performance is on par with commercially available speakers that retail for >3X the price of the assembled kit... | |
| Rogue Cronos Magnum -Reverse Polarity ? Does the Cronus invert polarity? I believe it does not. | |
| Top DYI Speaker Options I recently built the SB Acoustics Satori Helios Textreme (kit available at Madisound). They perform better than all three-ways I have encountered short of high end $40K+ speakers like Rockports. I don’t recommend purchasing the available flat-... | |
| Low powered integrated recommendation | |
| Low powered integrated recommendation The Croft Phono integrated. Forget everything else. |