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| What is the advantage of being able to select the MONO button? The mono button does what the Y connector does to sum left and right. You can then use the amp to feed identical summed signal to the two speakers of a stereo system or use one channel to feed a single speaker. But, as I opined above, summing wi... | |
| Single driver speakers without the pitfalls? The best I’ve heard of true single-driver systems are made by Charney Audio and Songer Audio. The Charney systems I heard employed a Voxativ full range driver and the other employed AER drivers. I liked both, but preferred the AER drivers. Both... | |
| What is the advantage of being able to select the MONO button? Ideally, one would listen to records mixed and mastered as mono recordings on a mono setup and stereo recordings on a stereo set up. Listening to mono recordings through two speakers of a stereo setup can sound very good too. When listening to ... | |
| Why isn’t more detail always better? Unless we are talking about really bad equipment or extremely lossy formats, there is no difference in the musical detail presented in playback. Can anyone point out a specific bit of information in a particular place in a recording that cannot a... | |
| Amplification of classical soloists in concert performances ? It is fairy common for classical performances to employ amplification. When Strathmore opened in North Bethesda (Washington D.C. suburb), I went to a special presentation where they actually showcased their high tech sound system and demonstrated... | |
| Replace the Capacitors in my Sonus Faber speakers ? The capacitors are probably still fine in your speakers. Capacitors would be easy to replace, and someone may so do to use better caps to improve the sound or preempt future concerns about them going bad. You can easily do the work yourself, so ... | |
| speaker list / web site This is a terrific list of speaker/brands. I suggest adding the following brands which I have heard and liked what they offered: Bayz Audio Cinnamon Audio Songer Audio Voxativ PureAudioProject | |
| Are Lampizator DACs uniquely analog sounding? They are quite a bit more analogue sounding than most DACs, but that does not make them unique. Audio Note DACs deliver a similar kind of sound. | |
| Looking to move to a Tube Integrated setup There is MUCH more variability in the sound of tube gear than there is between high end solid state gear. For my particular taste, there are many high-powered tube amps that I don't like--many sound hard and brittle and less "pleasant" than most ... | |
| Ugliest Component of the Year 2024! The person who owns these horns cares ONLY about the sound. He puts together custom systems that are much more practical than ones with that giant horn. That horn was meant to be used in theaters where it was hidden behind screens or curtains so... | |
| Ugliest Component of the Year 2024! I have another anatomically suggestive speaker system for you to consider. It is the Western Electric 16A horn from the 1920's. I know someone who owns two of these beasts. Although it has two drivers, it is a single midrange horn. I've heard ... | |
| Ugliest Component of the Year 2024! DeKay, Holy s**t, that is a real looker, although what looks like a port when the thing is closed is really going too far. I recall people talking about putting toilet paper over the tweeter on Klipsch Heresy speakers; toilet paper stuffed in th... | |
| Ugliest Component of the Year 2024! LEDs tend to increase noise to the power supply circuit. Perhaps, that improves the sound of some gear where noise is preferable to what the amp puts out. | |
| Ugliest Component of the Year 2024! The Washington Post did an article where a non-audiophile reporter went to a local high end shop. The reporter described the Avantegarde speakers as looking like an air raid siren from a Tex Avery cartoon. I thought that was a terrific descripti... | |
| Is all the hype warranted SET is an acronym for single-ended triode. It is a very simple circuit that permits a single output tube per channel. While simple might suggest low cost, this type of amp requires a special type of transformer that must be large, and therefo... |