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| Favorite reviewer? Art Dudley for his fusion of audio, life, politics and humor. Though not really a reviewer, I always enjoy reading Harvey Rosenberg's words on audio (not) as well. Marco | |
| Burning In a New DAC I was told that to put any drive or cd unit on repeat mode could cause your lense to wear faster because of some heat factors, so anny comments on that also reading copy could make the same issues ....300-500 hours on a CD laser is a chunk of time... | |
| Burning In a New DAC No one has (specifically) answered his question yet, and I'm curious to know this too: Is it necessary when burning in a DAC to have an output target device (preamp or amp) connected and turned on? Or can you just have the DAC connected with no ca... | |
| what kind of audiophile are you ? my initial assertion regarding the quad 57 is a hypothesis.I'd say it came off as an opinion until you declared it a hypothesis. I have very fond memories of a pair of Quad 57's a good friend of mine owned. Those speakers were one of the things th... | |
| Speaker Recomendations $3000 I'll second the vote for the Vienna Acoustics. I heard the Baby Grands at RMAF and they sounded great there - had me lingering in that room for a while. I don't know how they'd pair off with your amp though, but I'm pretty sure they were using SS ... | |
| Ugliest Speakers??? Ugly?! You ain't seen ugly till you seen this bad boy. A close rival might be these deluxe USB tethered speakers. I hear a supertweeter on the HK's makes a world of difference though. Marco | |
| Help me with Klipsch Heresy III If you raise the Heresy's off the floor you will be loosing some bass reinforcement at the possible benefit to the midrange and soundstaging (in my experience). I worked hard to get an early pair of Heresy's to sing, though I mostly work with push... | |
| True dual mono 2 ch amps? If I you are considering vertical biamping, have you considered tubes on top and SS on the bottom? My friend's doing that with his Maggie 20.1's and the results are remarkable. It's a best of both worlds scenario in his case. YMMV - I'm not famili... | |
| what kind of audiophile are you ? If I had to stick myself in one of those three categories, I'd fall mostly into category 3. I most definitely don't have much of either of the other two categories. I just prefer to have gear that I can completely ignore, that disappears without a... | |
| True dual mono 2 ch amps? Odyssey used to make a dual-mono version of their monos. It's currently only on their Mexico site. Not sure of the pricepoint and level of performance you're looking for but I found theirs to be an excellent amp overall. My friend had one that I h... | |
| Best sound at RMAF #1 MBL #2 Daedalus / Art Audio#3 Proclaim / Red RockI didn't get to hear all the rooms, dismissed others for reasons that didn't necessarily have to do with the quality of the system, and as Viridian points out, there are many significant compromi... | |
| Report from Rocky Mountain AudioFest I thought the Wilson Maxx sounded spacious and real. Does anybody find the Sophia 2 and Watt Puppy 8 boxed in?I was surprised that I liked the sound of the Sophia 2, as I'd heard it before at a shop and did not like it at all in that setup. The Ma... | |
| Report from Rocky Mountain AudioFest Just back home to Seattle from three days there with my friend, Peter. Had a great time overall, and it got better from day two as I had more enthusiasm hearing a greater number of better sounding rooms. There were still plenty of compromised room... | |
| Report from Rocky Mountain AudioFest This is the first show I've been to since the late 80's. Now I remember why I stopped going after only two. Still, I've enjoyed the social aspect of it. Great to finally meet Albert Porter. It's astounding how bad some of the most exotic and expen... | |
| Chamber Music - your best pick. Oh, brother! Those guys need to hook up with Lara St. John for a titillating double bill. Actually, St. John is pretty damn good...check out her renditions of Bach, which is one of my favorites. It's all solo violin. |