johnnyb53
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| Why blind listening tests are flawed The Coke/Pepsi/New Coke tests are a great way to illustrate the limitations of blind comparison tests. The only way you can really tell what people prefer is what they choose over the long run. Interestingly, after 27 years of digital dominance, a... | |
| Golden Ear Triton7 spk: High-end or just mid -fi?? I seriously auditioned (twice, with my favorite music) Triton 7s and Magneplanar 1.7s (also twice). I bought the Maggies, which held together and sorted out more inner detail than the Tritons when tracking the opening movement of Mendelssohn's "El... | |
| JL Labs vs. REL 10-12-14: JafantI concur. REL is the best sub (for music) in the market.JL Audio does a nic job for HT applications only.A misplaced dogmatic statement. I've heard JLs in a variety of music-only systems, including matched with panel speakers, and ... | |
| "New" Beatles Mono Catalog Release on 180gr Vinyl In the October issue of TAS, Sean Magee, engineer for this project, said that while they're all excellent, The Beatles (white album) stands out by delivering more of what's going on in that album than any previous release of it.I got 7 of the new ... | |
| "New" Beatles Mono Catalog Release on 180gr Vinyl 10-09-14: Gpgr4bluThe new Beatles mono set is, in a word, fabulous. ... The pressing quality is as good it gets. An absolute must for any Beatle fan with a turntable.I'll go one better and say that this Beatles release is the best reason to go out... | |
| Album which you have listened to most? o Dave Brubeck: Time Further Out, Live at Carnegie Hallo Miles Davis: Kind of Blueo Leopold Stokowski: Bizet Suites (Carmen, L'Arlessiene)o Bruno Walter w/CBS Orch: Eroicao Buddy Rich: Swingin' New Big Band, Big Swing Face, Keep the Customer Satis... | |
| "New" Beatles Mono Catalog Release on 180gr Vinyl My enthusiasm over the Beatles mono masters does not mean that I consider mono to be superior to stereo, per se. I like these Beatles masters because:1) Against all conventional wisdom, EMI listened to the audiophile contingent (Thanks, Michael Fr... | |
| need to find out maker of these speakers? any help 10-06-14: Zd542"10-06-14: AudiomaxC'mon gentlemen..Tony is 70ish and may have forgotten a thing or two..."And that's something only Tony would know. Do you think you can finally post pics of your speakers?Audiomax is probably conjecturing that the... | |
| "New" Beatles Mono Catalog Release on 180gr Vinyl 10-05-14: TonykaySlaw,"Revolver" may be my favorite Beatles title. Your comment that the soundstage is "closed in" worries me a little. Did you use a dedicated mono cartridge or stereo?I have no no modern-day experience with a mono cartridge, and ... | |
| Tube Friendly High End "Big" speakers 10-04-14: Dave_72Ok, granted. However, you could biamp with a solid state amp on the woofers and a tube amp on the mids and tweeters. And not necessarily regarding full range, the big Tannoys, ATCs, and JBLs are full range at much less, so I dunno... | |
| need to find out maker of these speakers? any help i came across these speakers this week i would like to find out the make and model of these speakers. they come with missing logos.. any help would be fine thanksSeriously? No description, no links to pics? And we're supposed to help you how? | |
| Tube Friendly High End "Big" speakers 10-03-14: Dave_72Those look good, Rhljazz, but do they have enough bass. It's hard to beat the 15s in the Tannoys and JBLs.Really, read Olsher's review of the Crescendo. The transmission line proveds clean, linear bass down to around 40 Hz. An imp... | |
| Tube Friendly High End "Big" speakers 10-01-14: BranislavAcoustic Zen Crescendo...and laugh all the way to the bank :-)Here's Dick Olsher's review of the Crescendo in Absolute Sound. Not only could he drive it with tubes, he got particularly good results with Triode Corporation M845SE... | |
| Granite surface plate If you look at the range of hardnesses in turntable materials, granite is probabably harder and denser than any of them. In other words, its mechanical impedance (resistance to being set in motion by external vibration) is high. This is not what y... | |
| SACD... can you hear the difference? Under perfect circumstances, SACD provides an incremental improvement over CD. But the dramatic difference occurs in vinyl. Check the numbers; audiophiles have voted decisively with their wallets for vinyl. Examples: AcousticSounds offers 1,614 ti... |