johnnyb53
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| MBL alternatives In addition to their very sophisticated room-filling dispersion, the MIrage OMD-28s' -10dB point measured anechoically is 18 Hz. In-room, these things are linear to around 22 Hz, which should give you more than a taste of the MBL experience. | |
| What one product has redefined music for you?? Product? Do you really mean "redefined music" or "redefined musical reproduction"?The events and things in my life that have redefined *music* include seeing Rostropovich play cello with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra twice, seeing Buddy Rich d... | |
| Help choosing a new cartridge 08-25-08: Jayboditch the notion of mc, and get an AT 150...spend the balance on records. I'm glad somebody else said it first. I looooove my AT150MLX and have no intention/desire to upgrade it for a long time. It just gives me everything I want, n... | |
| The disappearing $500 turntable I should have prefaced this by saying that if a novice wanted to get into analog playback, the last thing I'd do is suggest he scrounge for a 40-yr-old unit and restore it. I'm sure you can get really good results that way, but that's hardly a plu... | |
| The disappearing $500 turntable 08-28-08: LearsfoolThe Rega P1 is quite a bit under $500, and I believe Music Hall still has at least one under that figure as well. Well, I know there are still entry-level tables between $300 and $400, but they are starting to creep towards $500... | |
| Playstation 3 Blue Ray quality - How good is it ? 08-27-08: CerrotI was under the impression that the PS# did not do Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD. The PS 3 can read and extract the uncompressed codecs, but it doesn't decode them internally. This article explains that the PS 3 can read Dolby TrueHD and ... | |
| Will new Class D trump a vintage Class A/AB? 08-27-08: MapmanWhat's the rest of your system that the Onkyo will be synergizing with? Source is a Technics SL1210 M5G with KAB fluid damper, Oracle Groove Isolator sorbothane mat, and Audio-Technica AT150MLX MM cart mounted on an LPGear Zupreme ... | |
| Anyone NOT like the sound of VPI? That's weird. I auditioned a Rega P3/24 with Elys II going into an all-Rega chain--Brio driving the R5 floorstanders, and I thought the detail was unnatural and overdone. Maybe the Brio was clipping or there was feedback or the system was overload... | |
| Blu Ray or Oppo? 26-08: IplaynakedThe disc is a dying format. Welcome to the "hard drive disc" era! - downloading digital media, computer/entertainment media convergence, internet based home automated systems.Yeah, but there will always be a thriving niche market ... | |
| Blu Ray or Oppo? The Oppo is so low profile and the PS3 so compact, I found that I have room on my rack to stack one on top of the other. I use the Oppo for all music; I have it internally upconvert everything to 7.1 channel and use the 7.1 analog outputs to the 7... | |
| Playstation 3 Blue Ray quality - How good is it ? I have a LCD-driven 55" rear-projection HDTV by Hitachi, which accepts 480p, 720p, and 1080i. Its native mode is 720p, but somehow, the picture is just a *little* bit better when I feed it 1080i signal. We just got a PS3 yesterday, and when we set... | |
| MBL alternatives In Chris Martens' review of the $7500/pair Mirage OMD-28 speakers, he writes:Moreover, the Mirges distinguish themselves through their ability to vanish into the soundstage. Many speakers claim to offer "disappearing act" imaging, but I think the ... | |
| Acurus A-250, Adcom GFA-555 or Audio Research What speakers? Assuming from your alias here that you're into Klipch's, you hardly need 200 wpc unless your listening room is the size of a gymnasium. You might want to look into the Onix SP8 tube integrated. | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? Amber Series 70. Stupid good for the money. My 22-yr-old 70wpc still keeps beating all comers. I'm ordering in an Onkyo A-9555 integrated. We shall see. It's obviously neutral from the get-go, but deceptively, seductively, unfailingly musical and ... | |
| Gallos ohms mirages or deuvels Here is a review of the Mirage OMD-15s for Ultra Audio and here is a review of the Mirage OMD-28s from SoundStageAV.com.Everything they say is true. The OMD series provides a better radiating pattern than simple wide dispersion or a purely omnidir... |