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| Integrated Tube Around $1000 Whooha, 30 watts is a bit shy for those Totems, even for a small room. I'd stick to something with a bit more than that as a minimum as you suggested. Jolida's 502B would be where I might go given an 87-88db efficiency. The PrimaLuna Rich mentions... | |
| entry level cables and Audioholics For some further views on "objectivity", critics, and using what you got on the sides of your head, you may find this thread interesting too.Marco | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? Onhwy61 said:(snip)Let's not lose sight that there is an objective reality somewhere beyond the firing pleasure synapses in our brains.As soon as you bring a human being into the picture it leaves the realms of "objectivity". It may fire some plea... | |
| entry level cables and Audioholics Don't trust an addict. That advice may have you ignoring this and other posts though, so you figure it out! Trelja gives you some good advice. Your investment, at this point, would be better spent elsewhere for more significant rewards. Also, thou... | |
| Love it, or Hate it ? (wood trim) Funny that you bring this up today; I was just looking at some Chinese built amplifier yesterday that mixed wood and metal the way Unison, Pathos and other manufacturers have done and thinking just how stupid it looks. I do like a well implemented... | |
| Can we list the better labels? Chesky? Telarc? EMI for conistently remarkable programming.Whoops, I meant ECM! Well, I got the "E" right!Marco | |
| Can we list the better labels? Chesky? Telarc? EMI for conistently remarkable programming.Alia Vox - Jordi Savall's label for Early MusicMarco | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? You got it Albert. Go out and get yourself a pair of Carpe Diem Acoustic Orgasms and use those phased arrays of yours for kindling! You can thank me later.Marco | |
| Integrated amp advice needed... Put the Portal Panache on your list if you don't mind being without a remote. I'm auditioning one right now and I am pretty darn impressed, and I am a tried and true tube guy, so that is saying alot for this SS integrated. There have been four or ... | |
| What does listening to a speaker really tell us? I'll add a few more questions to your query: What is "perfect"? Why is a verbatim translation of an entirely subjective recording engineer's idea of what a performance should be supposed to be a 'better' thing than say, one that is "colored" by a ... | |
| Critiques of Equipment Reading some reviews/criticism here and on other audio sites often brings to mind that great line by The Clash from their album "Sandinista" addressing the U.S. justification of their involvement in Vietnam:"Charlie don't surf, but we think he sho... | |
| I bet you already know this one... Search the archives, I'm sure you can find more information than anyone could possibly need on this very subject!Oh, and I second, no third, Touche.Marco | |
| Critiques of Equipment Hey Warren - Good attempt at the P.C. audiophool vocabulary. Unfortunately you'll probably get get folks misusing your fine suggestions in ways such as this: "We (that is me, my entire family, all my audiophile friends, and everyone else who's bee... | |
| Any WGBH FM radio listeners in S. Maine or Vermont I'm not sure if they are rebroadcasting from a more local station, but my folks listen to WGBH in southern Vermont. No special antenna's either. Good station last time I was there. Seems like a lot of public radio stations are revising their progr... | |
| Critiques of Equipment I've done a handfull of blind tests on front-end components with audiophile friends since I started in this hobby back in 85'. The results are not always as expected, but never leave anyone with a shadow of doubt there is a difference in front end... |