helomech
Responses from helomech
| Speaker of the Century Award Goes To .... 2.5 - Way speakers tend to sound better than 3-Ways IME. The only affordable 3-ways I can imagine living with are Vandersteens. A couple years ago I owned some relatively affordable 3-way towers from Monitor Audio that were praised by many in the ... | |
| Calling all Vandersteen Fans I did follow the setup protocol. I noticed the decay was highly dependent on rake angle and listening height.Yes, I used multi-strand speaker cable. I owned some Type 4 in the past with my other speakers and wasn't impressed to be honest. I may tr... | |
| Calling all Vandersteen Fans I appreciate all the input. For some reference on the sibilance I heard with the 1Cis: Yesterday I bought a pair of near-mint Large Advents (77'), the ones with the orange "fried egg" tweeter. I kid you not, they sound better than the 1Cis ever di... | |
| Calling all Vandersteen Fans I have a pair of 2C's from 1988 I believe those are of the silk dome variety and are very smooth - never sibilant unless the source is (which they can be). I am not sure of the tweeters in the very latest model 1's 2's and 3's think the tweeters ... | |
| Calling all Vandersteen Fans Bump | |
| Speaker advice for listening to Blues music Having owned LS50s and driven them with a similar tube amp, I suggest you try Spendor A2s or A4s. Better speakers all-around - superior detail/imaging/bass/musicality...not as bright.I also own Heresy-IIIs. They're good but not as good as Spendors... | |
| I'm having a really hard time with: "Power cable reduced my soundstage"... Tone and soundstage are two very separate performance characteristics IME.The academic studies of psychoacoustics better explains the difference your friend claims to hear - more so than any quasi-technical explanations you’ll find littered throug... | |
| Spendor D7, D9 but no love Classic 100? The Classic series of old and the recent models are totally different in my opinion. So much so that instead of buying any of the recent versions of the 1/2 I waited patiently to buy a pair of the older 1/2e that I had owned several years previous... | |
| Alert, Warning, and Caution about Modified Components The problem, weakness, or flaw in writing, posting, or talking with adjectives, adverbs, and clauses always appearing, following and duplicating in triplets, threes and two plus ones, is its so tiresome, tedious, and boring to read its hard to fol... | |
| Roadrunner reapearance Maybe a phone call to SOTA? | |
| Spendor D7, D9 but no love Classic 100? there was something in particular about the D7 treble range that made me uncomfortableI’ve encountered this same criticism a few times, even from a Spendor dealer. I was told the D-line is Spendor’s interpretation of a modern studio monitor. I hav... | |
| Axpona reviewers perceptions and reality Individual percerptions are individual reality. Everyone hears a bit different. Some even hear voices that aren't there.The reality is that your opinion is about as valid as that of any other who walked the rooms of Axpona. | |
| Looking for an integrated tube amp under $2500 @helomech and gillatghI contacted Brent Jessee and he recommended a NOS Mullard based on my preferencesI doubt you can go wrong with an NOS Mullard. I just find excellent value in the old RCA 12au7s, both the black plates and clear tops. Please re... | |
| Forever turntable under $2000 Some outside the box options: MoFi UltradeckOracle OriginVinyl Nirvana TD-160 SuperFunk Firm Little Super DeckSoon to be released (allegedly) Schiit SOLAny number of pre-owned $4K tables being sold for <$2K | |
| Looking for an integrated tube amp under $2500 Looking forward to having my CMII upgraded to the III, mostly for the lower noise floor. For a very smooth treble with great bass, swap the preamp tube for an RCA 5814 triple-mica black plate. |