james63
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| Is this the END of DAYS for the high end CD player The end is near... no actually it is already here.I moved to a Apple computer about 5 years ago (they have toslink stock), at the time I A/B it with a number of good (not great) CD players.... I no longer even own a CD player.I use a DAC1-HDR as m... | |
| WAV versus FLAC Aplhifi, You said "IMO again, Monkey's Audio and Apple Lossless are superior and much closer to uncompressed WAV, but they still lack the top-end information (air) of uncompressed WAV which still sounds best to me. " I do not want an argument but ... | |
| WAV versus FLAC Not this again, the person that said "The first is that any difference is due to the extra load placed on the processor in decoding the FLAC file." is right.People that argue about the formats do not under stand how it works, it is just a differen... | |
| Thiel CS3.7 and CS2.4 comparisons? I have to agree with Rtn1 and say that refinement is what you gain with higher-end speakers. The issues is not messing up anything else in the process. IMO materials do not over shadow engineering, but when you have both things get very nice. Audi... | |
| Acoustic Zen Adagio vs Thiel 2.4 I have the CS2.4 in a 12X15X7' room and it works fine I use the short wall. My speakers are round 7.5 feet apart and I sit 8.5 feet back. I do have them out 4 feet (from the front of the speaker) from the front wall though. You need to sit 8-12' w... | |
| Thiel CS3.7 and CS2.4 comparisons? Velocityofhue,I am still enjoying them. I have not worked the system around them. I just dropped them into my old system Mac Mini (connected by toslink)-Benchmark HDR-DAC1 preamp/dac-Wyred4sound ST500amp.My guess is that most people on this site w... | |
| Avalon Acoustics vs Wilson Audio Madfloyd,I do not find the Sophia 3 fatiguing either. Maybe you are sensitive to it? But you own them so I will not argue...Just a thought though, could it be the midrange breakup node you are hearing and not the tweeter? From Stereophile's measur... | |
| Avalon Acoustics vs Wilson Audio The front end was Audio Research sp17 preamp, CD5 CD player, and Classe' CA-2100 amp.I have heard the Sophia 3 before on musical fidelity equipment and thought it sounded better than the front-end above. I thought they lacked bass impact on the au... | |
| Avalon Acoustics vs Wilson Audio Kazmann,Not sure you ever decided on a speaker but I wanted to add some of my opinions of a resent demo of the new 802Diamond. In an early post in this thread I stated that the 802D was not a fast speaker but I have to eat my words on the new 802D... | |
| $20k top, full range speakers? Of speakers I have heard (in order of my preference) are below. All are detailed at low volume with the award going to Thiel for low volume detail. Thiel 3.7 (detailed, integrated and accurate, but not for everyone, if you need to shake the room w... | |
| B&W 805 Diamond or Dynaudio C1 ?? I can't comment on your quest because I have not heard these speakers but comments like I quoted below worry me. Sorry to the poster to attack your post. "As a Dyn C1 owner all I can say is they are the most natural life like speakers I ever heard... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound and Thiels I use a ST500 on my Thiel CS2.4 and it is a good match. The ST500 plays way out of its price class. The dealer that told you it will not sound good has never heard the combo or is a lier...The damping factor of the class-d amp is it's real strengt... | |
| Magnepan 3.7 It appears they are Planar magnetic in the bass"true-ribbon/quasi-ribbon/planar-magnet dipoles."Jonathan Valin3.7, Avguide | |
| Magnepan 3.7 Here is another quote below from The Audio Beat. The comment makes me wonder if the bass is actually a quasi-ribbon. Some of the post above commented that only the mids were quasi-ribbon on the 3.7. Does anyone know for sure?"This time I was able ... | |
| Magnepan 3.7 Some picture of the show."the MG3.7 didn't disappoint, offering midrange clarity that speakers ten times their cost can't equal and a much-improved bottom end with some real power and heft."The Audio Beat |