helomech
Responses from helomech
| Grounding boxes which ones have YOU tried? And results? Grounding boxes are dumb AF. | |
| Had Three Different Speaker Thoughts; Now A Fourth Regarding Maggies, consider the .7s instead. They’re better balanced, more efficient, and more dynamic than the 1.7. Despite being 2-ways, the .7s give up nothing in midrange quality compared to the 3-way 1.7s. The only real advantage of the latte... | |
| What’s a mistake you made by being impulsive? I bought into the hype of a particular factory-direct brand (probably the same one to which @2psyop was referring). Though my mistake was a pair of speakers. They looked great in theory — top shelf Scanspeak drivers and crossovers populated with b... | |
| "not about the $, its about what does it take to engineer a machine that becomes invisible I own a couple components that I feel are truly transparent and “get out if the way.” Bench measurements of these pieces confirm as much. However, I don’t believe it’s a sound everyone will like, nor should everyone aspire to. I completely underst... | |
| What's the best plating material for interconnects plugs ? Definitely not Rhodium as it’s a far inferior conductor to the others. Silver is best since oxidation doesn’t inhibit its conductivity for all practical purposes. | |
| Biggest audio hoaxes Just check out the website of Synergistic Research for some good comedy. | |
| Your tube preamp and ss amp thread I run an Allnic L1500 into a Benchmark AHB2. What stands out most with this combo is the incredible dynamics. I have no desire to revert to a full-tube amp in my main system. | |
| Where are the young audiophiles? As a relatively young (mid 30s) audiophile, I can tell you guys the snobbery (“my first $50K system...”) doesn’t help to encourage young folk to enter the hobby. I have about $20K worth of gear in my current chain (and about $10K of other gear in ... | |
| Does length matter ? yes | |
| So Hard to Decide on an Amp I’d like to know more about the Crown amplifier, because it has been decades since I have heard or read about any new products under the Crown imprimatur. For example, are they class D amplifiers? Some people just categorically dislike class D amp... | |
| So Hard to Decide on an Amp I have the AHB2 and find it’s sound quality is heavily dictated by the preamp it’s paired with. If you like the overall character of your Vincent integrated, the AHB2 could be a worthwhile upgrade path. If you have power hungry speakers, the Paras... | |
| Topping Dacs D-50, DX-7, and DX7s If it's not the pro then it's not the top ESS saber chip. The top chip is the 9038 pro. And it's incredible sounding very analog, I have it in my wyred for sound 10th anniversary dac. It's very difficult to work with so I don't know if the Chinese... | |
| Compression Titanium Worlds finest tweet ever engineered Spatial Audio employed a sort of anodized-titanium compression driver in their discontinued M3 and M4 Turbo models. It sounded surprisingly similar to a good beryllium tweeter. | |
| Quality of construction on some speakers- namely Harbeth Here is a link to a video of Spendor cabinets being crafted. The cabinets or Harbeths and some others are made in the same factory.https://youtu.be/3DrOmtu3L8M | |
| Quality of construction on some speakers- namely Harbeth Separation?? I haven’t noticed any speakers exhibiting this issue in all my browsing of dozens of listings. Nor have I read of anyone experiencing this problem in all my years on the forums. I suspect you’re mistaking pics of chipped corners for s... |