keis
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| How much power needed for Revel Studios? Great speaker. If you look at their impedence curve they stay above 3 ohms and the curve doesn't have any wild slopes so the speakers can be considered amp friendly. If you read Steophile's review, they were using the Sonic Frontiers Power 3 (a tu... | |
| what is the best super speaker and why? Just listened to the Avantgarde's 2 and 3 speaker systems and was left with a very unimpressed fealing. They lacked clarity but the biggest problem with them is their size, not physical, but accoustical. In a normal to large room they have no soun... | |
| Bit perfect copies Kthomas I agree with you about cheap and effective. But not perfect. There is jitter introduced at all stages of the digital to analoge process. For the digital to digital I was not referring to the error encoding of the original being changed. I'... | |
| Why is the turnover on maggies 1.6QR so much? I think one of the reasons for the turnover is a more generic issue. Speaker placement for bipolar speakers (all brands mag or electrostatic) is critical. In the proper place in the right room they are killer. Unfortunately I think the problem pan... | |
| The most important piece in a stereo system??? The most important component is the weakest link component. Could be anything from cables(not likely but possible) to input source to speakers to your room's accustics.One disagnostic I use is to purchase a very good set of headphones. This ellimi... | |
| Best speakers for 2000-USED I own Thiel 3.6s and love them. Used for $2000 they would be the best speaker you could buy. Unfortunately, I would not recommend them with your system. The Adcom preamp would make the Thiels drill a hole through your ears. Its a bit bright and th... | |
| Bit perfect copies No such thing as bit perfect. To make my point Stereophile had an article about BMG's quality. As you may recall, BMG remarkets CDs to clubs. Stereophile did a comparision between the original CDs from RCA, Mercury and other companys and the BMG p... | |
| Thoughts on PS Audio's SuperLink Gen II DAC I owned an Ultralink II and found it a little strident. Lots of detail but it could drill a whole through you on occation. | |
| what is the best super speaker and why? Not to poke at a hornet's nest, but I couldn't ever answer that question without knowing the room size and accoustic environment and the type of music being listened to. You can ask preferences under certain conditions but to ask for the best (abs... | |
| Are you Guys Rich or What!? 1. My wife and I both love music and typically the same type of music. 2. We justify our expenditures by the car test. Do you spend more time in your car or listening to your stereo? If the answer is your stereo then you could justify spending the... | |
| CATV Groundloop, toBeat a Dead Horse and the Shack I bought a Modial Magic unit and it didn't work. Still have hum but only when the cable connection is attached to the stereo/video system. Friend who is an electric engineer couldn't get ride of it so ended up going to DirectTV. Problem went away.... | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? I don't cope. My wife is my wife because she has a equal love of music. When I get the urge to purchase new stuff I include her ears in the purchase. I've saved lots of money when she says she can't hear the difference. When she does its an easier... | |
| Science Fiction Time ? I think room stuff is still thinking in the box. I'd suggest an array of speakers made like a phased array radar that would sense your head and follow you around so you are always in a 3d sweet spot sound wise.Also we need a pure solid state music... | |
| direct drive tt's? All AC motors have poles. The better table motors have 24 poles, some more. As you turn the motor and each pole comes into play and adds torque you get a speed up and as the poles move away from the stator the magnetic push goes down so you get a ... | |
| Tone Controls I predict tone controls will back in the high end equipment landscape in the next few years. My reasoning is I look at the Cello pre that has tone controls and the new DSP stuff that allows signal manipulation in the digital domain at 30 bit/96KHz... |