helomech
Responses from helomech
| Will technology make records obsolete one day? Get a MoFi pressing of Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly - an album that was recorded digitally but sounds far superior in LP form - quite an ear-opener.Even the $27 reissue LP is superior to the CD. | |
| Parasound Halo Integrated vs Yamaha AS2100 The fatigue is puzzling. I had the Halo playing Maggie 1.7I for hours always sounded great, even my classically trained musician friend would listen and express amazement at how good it sounded.Very puzzling. It made no sense because the Halo is r... | |
| Lets replace my Klipsch La Scala Speakers With that budget, you'd be very hard pressed to do better than the $2K Spatial Audio M4 Turbo S. I own Heresy IIIs and the Spatials beat them in nearly every regard. I was afraid they'd be excessively bright, being that they use a metal-dome compr... | |
| Parasound Halo Integrated vs Yamaha AS2100 I ended up with an A-S1100 after all. I noticed I was suffering fatigue anytime I listened to Halo for about an hour or more, which never happened with my A-S500. So I bought another 1100 and all has been well. Now that the amp has broke-in, I cou... | |
| I Think We Can All Agree... Just when I thought American car makers couldn’t get any more cheesy. It’s always gimmicks they rely on when instead they should focus on designing an interior that doesn’t become a rattle box after 20K. Now they’re as ridiculous as Pimp my Ride. | |
| Shipping by UPS Pick them up at the distribution center. That’s exactly what i do when receiving anything of significant value from UPS and the boxes do seem to fare better that way. It potentially eliminates a full day of your gear sliding and bouncing around in... | |
| Power Amp transformer hum - intermittent and increases and decreases in a few seconds Mechanical hum is not always the result of DC offset. I have some DC offset on my mains and even two DC blockers in series couldn’t eliminate an obnoxious hum in one of my amps. Anyhow, I own the CMX-2 but found the Audio By Van Alstine Humdinger ... | |
| Thinking about buying new speakers....the Elac Uni Fi5 towers or the Klipsch hersery lll The Heresy IIIs are good speakers at the $2K price point when referring to speakers bought through the traditional dealer model. Nothing I own beats them for late-night, low-level listening. However, it kinda pains me to admit the $2K Spatial Audi... | |
| Which integrated amp do you suggest? You won’t find a better integrated for $600 than a used Yamaha A-S801 or a new A-S501. They have a dead-quiet noise floor and their power exceeds published spec at well under 1% distortion for full bandwidth. They’re reliable and even 2 ohm stable... | |
| Thinking about buying new speakers....the Elac Uni Fi5 towers or the Klipsch hersery lll Klispch is more versatile with amplifier choices. I own some Heresy 3s, but my recommendation would be to get Spatial Audio M4 TurboS' they're better all-around speakers for the same price. Unlike the H3s, they'll sound good with your current amp. | |
| Recommendations for improving visceral impact? Replace those B&W with super large JBLs - done. | |
| Klipsch!. The worst speaker company, EVER? ^The current Heritage line is not bright by today's standards. They're certainly no brighter than the average B&W, Focal, Paradigm, Monitor Audio or Revel speaker. | |
| Klipsch!. The worst speaker company, EVER? A review of the heresy III's from a reviewer that I have bought products on his recommendation/s with no ill affects. Basically I have trusted him since the 90's. http://audiocounsel.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Klipsch-Heresy-III-Review-HiFi-... | |
| Klipsch!. The worst speaker company, EVER? I have had several older Klipsch as well as their latest Heresy the titanium drivers are very decent , the connectors ,wiring and Xover suck bad cheap junk no name parts .So now Clarity Caps are "cheap junk no name" parts? Funny. | |
| Klipsch!. The worst speaker company, EVER? Interesting that he is saying " if you like female vocal, like Diana Krall, or other female vocals like her, I can see using this speaker ".That statement, along with the fact he's a CV fan, just proves he hasn't much experience with really good s... |