johnnyb53
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| which budget integrated amp Rotel, NAD or other I nominate the Onkyo A-9555. It puts out 85/170 wpc into 8/4 ohms, so it's a good match to your requirements and your speakers. It's very quiet, fast, and transparent. I personally prefer it over the Rega integrateds and many of the other British ... | |
| Buying late model Samsung DLP rear projection TV? 08-01-09: MartyklIME, the picture quality is very good, but maintenance issues are real. You will go through lamps...I just ordered a new lamp assembly from Discount-Merchant. The bulb on my Hitachi LCD RP HDTV blew out this week. My local in-town... | |
| Green light from spouse - now what Don't forget room proportions. Can you build it to Golden Ratio proportions to minimize resonances? | |
| Can even a Novice hear differences in Sound Qualit So, are you talking about the preference of multi-channel 24/96 DVD-A vs. SACD? | |
| Sensible upgrade from Denon DL160 08-03-09: RauliruegasDear Johnnyb53: I know that you are an advocate to the 150MLX that is a good cartridge, well as good as the AT is IMHO that Ortofon M20FL Super Axel advise is something that is worth that you hear even the very low price Andan... | |
| USB DACs with 24/192 via USB 07-29-09: Kopsupconversion is wrong way.....native is neededI get the impression that the PS Audio DAC III is 24/192 in native mode. It upconverts lower sampling rates and shorter word lengths to 24/192. Therefore, I presume that if it receives a ... | |
| Direct drive/rim drive/idler drive vs. belt drive? 08-01-09: QuiddityJohnny... The maximal velocity variation for a given length change is the product of the radial displacement produced by the length change and the corner frequency of the filter system expressed in radians per second. The numbers... | |
| Direct drive/rim drive/idler drive vs. belt drive? 08-02-09: AxelwahlPS: by the way, I just like how SME tts go about it, a belt drive with dynamics! -- that's why I got one :-)For a long time the SMEs were the only belt drives I'd heard that don't mute transients and artificially "relax" the musc... | |
| Sensible upgrade from Denon DL160 +1 on the AT150MLX. I upgraded from the DL-160 to the AT150MLX over a year ago and haven't looked back (or to the side) since.The tonal balances are very similar, but the AT gives you more of what you're looking for--tighter bass, faster overall r... | |
| Direct drive/rim drive/idler drive vs. belt drive? 08-01-09: Quiddity...the torque numbers by themselves prove ... that the argument over motor torque does not provide a key to the sound of an idler table vs belt drive.That variable being eliminated, we can now ask "what other characteristics of t... | |
| Speaker cabinet construction.. I just had a discussion about "white papers" with my wife. In her case, it was white papers in the nursing profession.In my experience (and I was a career technical writer for three decades), white papers are propaganda with scholarly affectations... | |
| Speaker cabinet construction.. I think this is a mischaracterization of ported designs. There was a time that I was a sealed enclosure snob, and dismissed all ported designs as "boomy one-note bass." But over time the designers learned how to properly damp a ported enclosure, a... | |
| Great old speakers that are as good as new ones It's a shame ADS couldn't have kept going. I bought a pair of L1090's in 1987. Soon they came out with their M series. I auditioned the M-12s powered by Meitner monoblocks and the Brahms Requiem brought tears to my eyes. I didn't move up to the M-... | |
| USB DACs with 24/192 via USB BigampAre there any "audiophile" quality DACs that can receive a 24/192 input via USB?It appears that the PS Audio Digital Link III has an internal native mode of 24/192KHz. It also has a USB input. As to whether it can actually receive 24/192 ove... | |
| Looking for new monitors - $300-$600 budget PSB Image B25. Smooth, full-bodied, detailed, very linear, and mfr' list price $479/pair. Usable bass down into the 30's.Stereophile review and measurements.Even when compared to similarly priced offerings from Epos, NHT, and Alon/Nola, overall it... |