henry53
Responses from henry53
| Recommendations for HiFi Listening Room The two biggest factors are 1. The Room (you already have that). 2,. Speakers. Matching speakers to a room is not easy, after 50 years I have determined that the easiest way in a very difficult room, like mine, is to buy speakers you like the soun... | |
| How good does my system have to be to realize an improvement with cables? A straight 10% is an over simplification, many years ago working in a hifi store, we wired up systems with varying cost cables, we all agreed that once above $30 a metre for speaker cable improvement was harder to detect than difference. For inte... | |
| What speakers have you mistakenly let go and then later repurchased? Road Doublets, owned for nearly 20 years, sold to a friend, bought back, given to son, swapped back. Eventually replaced with Audio Physic Sitara 25's. Must have bought 6 pairs to replace the Royd's, Monitor Audio, Kef, B+W, Yamaha, even Sonab OA... | |
| Weak Link in chain as I upgrade from mid-fi? A solution for my system that is in a small room with exceedingly terrible bass problems was 2 subwoofers. The Arcam has pre amp out so an easy connection. I must say I absolutely hated the next suggestion however I tried it and it changes everyth... | |
| Looking for Speaker Recommendations Monitor Audio have a good range. | |
| Indentical measurments = Identical performance? asvjerry, I doubt your proposition could be proven right or wrong. If I knew something was 0.0000000003% THD does that mean I can hear it, does it mean I believe I can hear it, or does it mean my expectation is I can't hear it. As probably the amp... | |
| Am I Better Off With Limited Low Frequency Speaker In A Small Room? My room is smaller than yours, I had massive ( walls shaking furniture vibrating, speakers in sympathetic coupling) bass problems until I added two subwoofers. I now use these two with Audio Physic floor standers. The problems have disappeared and... | |
| Indentical measurments = Identical performance? ASR recently gave a DAC a junk rating because of 1 reading, distortion at 0.003%. Can anyone hear distortion at 0.003%, no. Tube amps with 0.5% distortion are considered good, turntables would be consider at least OK, speakers are often stated as ... | |
| tube pre & ss amp integrated I use Vincent pre / power amplifiers, class A up to 10 watts, however they are no longer available. The hybrid works for me, Unison Research do some nice ones, better than Mac's, IMO. | |
| Lumin U2 Mini The Lindemann Limetree Bridge is better. | |
| A rookie with 10K, seeking advise I really wanted to buy the Wharfedale Linton's for my second system with a Naim Unitilite. I tried them at a dealer who did both, they sounded 'ordinary' with everything I tried, no sparkle, no depth, poor soundstage. My 2 systems both have Audio... | |
| Need recommendations for a streamer I use a Lindemann Limetree Bridge. It is excellent. Solid as a rock, very good sound quality. Outputs are Coax/ Toslink only. It drives a Denafrips Ares 2 then Tube Hybrid Vincent pre/ power amps. | |
| Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ? Another CDT 6000 user. I find its sound quality is excellent. I tried Tidal for several years it was very good. However I was really paying to hear music which 95% of the time I already had on CD. | |
| What is your take on high efficient speakers vs. low efficient speakers? It's rather like comparing cars, once accompanied a friend with his 5 litre V8 to a track day. He was whopped all day by a couple of 1.8 litre Lotus, on a straight track the Lotus loses on proper race track there the V8 loses. Which experience do ... | |
| Does a DAC need a large/strong power supply? Many hifi designers believe you are essentially listening to a power supply that is merely controlled and regulated by your pre and power amps? |