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| New speaker technology vs. Old speaker tech??? There are not that many "modern" horn drivers that even come close to comparing with some very old designs, apart from some attempts at exactly replicating those old horn drivers (the Japanese G.I.P. drivers, for example). Those modern, non-replic... | |
| Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc YES, the Villa-Lobos quartets are beautiful and there are a lot of them. Brilliant had a really nice and cheap box set for the complete quartets. | |
| Beautiful Classical Smaller Pieces, duo,trio,etc Lots of good suggestions above. I am in agreement that the Schubert D. 956 Quintet is one of the truly great works in the chamber genre (the second movement is devastatingly sad and beautiful).All of the Beethoven quartets, particularly the "late"... | |
| New speaker technology vs. Old speaker tech??? Johnk,I am so MUCH in agreement with you here. There are a number of very old drivers that can be used in modern systems that are, in some respects, unmatched by anything new. Some of these are limited in application because of practical concerns ... | |
| Help - new house - new setup? If it is feasible, you should hold off selling any subwoofer until after you have set up the new speakers, broken them in, and tried different room arrangments. It might be the case that you could still use the subwoofer. Often, a subwoofer helps ... | |
| Bad news for audiophiles? That sounds like good news to me. I don't care how I get to "happy." Delusion works fine. | |
| Help - new house - new setup? First things first. No matter how nice the speaker placement in your previous home was, it is entirely irrelevant to what will work in the new place. You need to experiment quite a bit with speaker and listening chair placement. This could be rand... | |
| Phono stage w/automatic Load-Impedanance. It may be the case that "automatic" really means "fixed." There are some manufacturers that don't think that any sort of precise setting of loading is important and so they go with a reasonable fixed value, typically somewhere around 125-150 ohms ... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Certainly, decent power cords are must-have items in a system of this caliber. However, I would not go crazy with big buck spending on power cords for tube amplification--most tube gear seem to be not as sensitive to power cord changes as are soli... | |
| VPI, Graham, Koetsu advice please I would expect the Koetsu, itself, to be more lush and veiled than the Lyra. They are completely different sounding cartridges. For certain systems and tastes, one or the other will sound better. You really cannot have it all in a cartridge--a car... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... My Audionote Kageki came with the brown-base RCA 6sn7s. This is a warm, lush sounding tube. I tried numerous other types, and I ended up liking the Tungsol roundplates (and copies thereof, like French Neotrons). I really did not like the metal-bas... | |
| JBL Project K2 S9900 Speakers Anyone Know ??? Wow, talk about straying off the ranch. The K2s are a very different breed of speakers--more dynamic and vivid sounding than most modern high-end speakers. You really need to hear them for yourself. There are some listeners who will be shocked, an... | |
| 2-Way Advice: Magico S1,YG Carmal,Diablo Utopia Raidho has three basic ranges of speakers--the top line is the D series, the mid-line C series, and a new X series. I have heard two of the X series speakers at a dealer--one is a very tiny 2-way that sells for somewhere in the $7,500 range and a ... | |
| 2-Way Advice: Magico S1,YG Carmal,Diablo Utopia I have heard the Carmel and S-1, but, none of the rest in your list. I preferred the Carmel to the Magico--better fleshed out harmonics of instruments and not quite as brittle sounding. In the same sort of camp, as far as tonal qualities, I like R... | |
| Evaluation of the Coincident Statement Phono Stage I have gotten very good results with the two cartridges (Lyra Titan and Transfiguration Orpheus L) I use with my phonostage with a built-in SUT and matching has been no problem because it is quite insensitive to loading changes and no additional l... |