larryi
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| More effecient speakers? It is interesting that you own, and like, Triangle speakers. I like them a lot too. They pull off the very difficult task of being lively sounding and sort of on the brighter side, without that brightness translating to being shrill or sibilance. | |
| More effecient speakers? Mapman,Most of the high efficiency speakers I really like tend to NOT have as their forte the ability to play really loud. Rather, they tend to sound great when playing at lower volume. This includes some truly gigantic systems.While not the sam... | |
| More effecient speakers? To me, one of the big reasons to explore high efficiency speakers is to be able to use low-powered amps; most of the best sounding amps are low powered (under 20 watts of power). I don't think one gains anything by getting high efficiency speaker... | |
| More effecient speakers? With 150 watts on tap, you have enough power for virtually any speaker. If you are looking for a different/improved sound, you might find it with more efficient speakers or less efficient speakers, it would not matter because you have more than e... | |
| Capitol Audio Fest Sal,I really liked the system with the Goodman woofers and the YL 5500 compression drivers too. It might have been a little bit more dynamic sounding and vivid than the G.I.P. system, but, as with almost everything audio, there are some tradeoffs... | |
| Transfiguration cartridges. What tube phono stages would you use them with ? It has been a while, but, I went from using a Lyra Titan to a Transfiguration Orpheus L (low output) with my Viva Fono phonostage. The Viva is a tube-based phono stage with a built in step up transformer. The Viva does not offer any loading opti... | |
| Capitol Audio Fest I went to Deja Vu this weekend and heard the big horn system that they brought to the show in a bigger and better-suited room. In this setup it sounded substantially better than it did at the show. I noticed that it does not sound quite as good ... | |
| Soundstage and explosive dynamics? I am a bit cautious about generalizing about various types of drivers and speakers; there are really good and bad implementations of all types. Given this caveat, I do agree that large coned woofers can be very fast and dynamic and deliver tone. ... | |
| Low heat alternative to FIRSTWATT J2 ? I borrowed a friend's J2 for two weeks and enjoyed it the whole time. The case gets fairly warm, but, that is, in part, a result of the whole unit being fairly small in size. In terms of the total amount of heat being radiated by the amp, I only... | |
| How expensive are best NOS tubes ? And how difficult to find ? One of the reasons why you will find a wide variety of opinions on vintage tubes comes from the fact that most tubes sold as NOS are really just old tubes where the amount of prior use is unknown and wildly variable. Even when someone has "tested... | |
| Capitol Audio Fest Charles1dad,Yes, I think the Classic Audio speakers are bright and mid-bass is thinner than my ideal. OTL amps, like the Atmasphere amps, and field coil speakers, have as their primary area of superiority, incredibly lively sound--very fast and d... | |
| Capitol Audio Fest When I heard the Burwells, they were being played at low volume and sounded not at all piercing. But, it might well be the case that they would behave poorly at higher volume levels. That actually is an issue with horn systems, particularly when... | |
| Capitol Audio Fest jond,The Channel D room was a touch bright, but, I took into account the nature of that kind of reverberant space. I think you would have really liked the Charney and Rethm speakers. Neither were bright and they were also, like the Auditorium, ... | |
| Capitol Audio Fest There were a lot of nice sounding rooms at the latest Capital Audiofest. As in past shows in this location, the smaller hotel rooms tended to sound better than the larger conference rooms. I am in agreement with a number of postings above. I to... | |
| Basis Turntables: Worth it or Ripoff? Most of Basis' models don't look quite as elegant as comparably priced models of some of their competitors. Basis hardly puts any money into visual aesthetics. Given that a lot of buyers DO place a lot of value in looks, I can see how Basis lose... |