holmz
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| Need a easy drive speaker while I am traveling Would closed headphone, in-ear monitors, or open headphones work? or a car stereo? | |
| Amir and Blind Testing Again, if you were an metrology expert, you would know this. Jez @deludedaudiophile Give him a break… he said he was a manager and not a technical expert. … Since I was an Engineering Manager for several years with one of my responsibiliti... | |
| Nagra Classic DAC 3rd Party Power supply So I'm auditioning the Nagra Classic DAC and enjoying it very much . Nagra offers the Classic PSU which is supposed to make a substantial difference in sound quality Will their older MPS work with the new “classics”? It is 12V, so I would thin... | |
| Caveat Emptor … I have Vincent gear and they have been excellent. | |
| Cartridge Loading for a phono pre amp @imhififan thanks mate! On the subject of the tracking… the RIAA sort of works in our favour as the stylus does not have to move as far with the curve sloping down… maybe that lessens the cart getting stiffer for the high freqs? (It is but it har... | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? @holmz "I can point to handfuls of speakers I would be happy with, from quite a few manufactures. That gets a lot harder in the $1000 range as there are usually 2 or more flaws so we have your “Pros and cons”… the better ones just have fewer ... | |
| Every day I see another turntable recommendation... Well put and sage advice @pindac | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? You can apply extraordinary measures to eliminate cabinet resonance and the result is a speaker like those made by Magico. And a dozen others or more. There is no defined engineering path to a great sounding speaker. The engineering path... | |
| Old Vandersteen model 2 vs. newer model 2 You are never going to get good imaging with two different pairs of speakers firing directly at you. Just a thought.... Have you heard the Moabs? 😉 @ozzy62 | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? I agree that resonances can never be fully eliminated but they can be lowed so they have negatable impact. Here's what I use: Mundorf Twaron Angel Hair Well worth investigating along with a sound deadening covering of all internal surfaces to... | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? Cabinet resonances are an entirely different matter which can be reduced with better internal lining of all surfaces and filling the enclosure with sound absorbing material. Specific to the speakers that the OP was considering, the review of th... | |
| Speakers: Anything really new under the sun? How does a grounding cable fix cabinet resonances? | |
| Favorite religious song I do not listen to religious songs on my home system. If I want religious music, there are churches everywhere It took me a couple of decades to realise they snuck it into there using like a dog whistle. Others songs of their’s are mor... | |
| AN Niobium versus Tantalum resistors? Just not with a pen ahh… a book on tape? | |
| Old Vandersteen model 2 vs. newer model 2 listening sweetspot, or is it, perhaps to a lesser degree, also throughout the room? This is an important question, because I do not have a listening room, but an open concept house with a large living area, and my listening sweet spot is in f... |