irvrobinson
Responses from irvrobinson
| How close to the real thing? "You're not being fair. Are we talking about measurements or listening? You can't talk measurements on the "does it sound like a tube debate" and then switch to listening on the "does it sound real" debate."Actually, that's exactly my point. We *k... | |
| How close to the real thing? You're treading on dangerous turf, Phaelon, he says rolling his eyes. :-) Tube amps sound different from solid state amps for measureable, predictable, understandable reasons that can usually be explained by effective differences in the amp-speake... | |
| How close to the real thing? "I have a studio quality tape recorder playing back a tape I made in my own house. So am I to believe that 99% of the time it doesn't sound that real, but all the other times it does?"No. It means that some of us believe you can recreate a pretty ... | |
| How close to the real thing? You always know it's Memorex? No wonder nothing sounds real to you! If you're old enough to remember those commercials you can't hear anything over 12KHz anyway! [Big Grin] | |
| How close to the real thing? I would like to hear the MBLs, but have never had the opportunity. Perhaps that fortunate, because I probably can't afford them, my room probably won't support them, and they are so ugly even my understanding spouse would have to call foul.The ste... | |
| How close to the real thing? Well, Phaelon, sounding "real" does happen for me, but not all that often, and, at least for me, only on solo recordings, and it takes just the right recording.BTW, IMO people that buy audio equipment aren't heroes, people that engineer them are.I... | |
| Krell or Mark Levinson with Revel Ultima2's??? Sanibelsteve is dead-on correct. Really great amps like Krell and Levinson sound identical, within their power envelopes. To get a solid state amp of that quality to sound different it has to be engineered with a non-flat frequency response, or a ... | |
| How close to the real thing? "Have you ever been walking down a residential street on a summer day and heard a musician practicing his guitar, horn, drum set or whatever in his apartment? You know immediately, don't you?"Yes, but it's not exclusive. I frequently play solo pia... | |
| How close to the real thing? Avguy, in order to do a valid test you would have to record your friend's piano in his room, and play it back in a similar venue. Most commercial recordings are made in much larger rooms than nearly any home will have. How big is your neighbor's r... | |
| How close to the real thing? I agree with Elizabeth. I've played a recording of a flutist, with the flutist that made the recording standing between my speakers playing along with herself, and I can tell you the recording - which was far from SOTA - sounded a heck of a lot be... | |
| speaker banana plugs No, you're not losing any signal with banana plugs. Not even a little bit. That said, all connectors are only for convenience or security. Bare wire works fine. | |
| Subwoofer to go with Wilson Maxx II's I've heard the MAXX2 extensively, and I can't imagine needing a subwoofer with those speakers for music or movies.For home theater use, where you have a dedicated subwoofer channel (e.g. 5.1), a sub might be called for, though I think it would tak... | |
| RevelStudio2 really special or I need to hear more What's with all of the trash talk in this thread about ML gear? Have I been listening to bad-sounding amps all these years and I didn't even know it? :)Personally, I think you guys are nuts. All amps with flat frequency response (+-.25db), low noi... | |
| RevelStudio2 really special or I need to hear more The Thiel 3.7 is very a interesting speaker, though I think the use of 1st-order crossovers is an old-fashioned marketing gimmick, and their use results in some rather difficult to resolve design compromises.The fit and finish of the Thiels are eq... | |
| RevelStudio2 really special or I need to hear more The Studio 2s are indeed pretty special. Most speakers that sound nearly as good, to me, cost more. Like the KEF 207/2, anything YG, anything Magico. I like the B&W 800D/802D for smoothness and definition, but I've never heard them image well.... |