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| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi guys - I wrote a very long post last night, only to discover that I could not post it, for some reason. The discussion has meanwhile left me far behind, but it has been a very good one. Obviously, the main problem here is terminology. As Newbee... | |
| Flat Screen Recommendations: 50 to 60 inch I agree completely with Allchemie - my mother-in-law just got an LED LCD, and it isn't even close to my Panasonic plasma. Also agree that the Samsung plasmas are quite good. | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi guys - Hifibri wrote in his last post "By changing overtones you change the shape of the wave and the resulting sound." As I have tried to explain, the actual overtones do NOT change. Al, you are probably correct about the amplitude of them cha... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi Bryon - loved the beginning of your post. :) I think we are actually in agreement here. @Hifibri - yes, re-reading what I wrote, that is a little confusing, for which I apologize. Basically, this is the part that is the important part: "the mai... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Lots of good posts here! @Bryon - Johnson is correct that many currently produced tube amps are not warm at all. In fact, the trend seems to be the opposite. Many companies are now making much more high-powered tube amps, so people don't have to c... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hello Hifibri - I guess I am still struggling with your use of the term "warmth", after reading your latest post. You seem to be equating "warmth" with the sound of the instrument itself, not merely as a characteristic of it. For a musician thinki... | |
| Decent budget turntable? Another vote here for the Rega - especially in that price range, it will throw a much bigger soundstage and have greater resolution of acoustic instrumental/vocal timbre, if you care about such things. The Rega P2 is a great value for the money, w... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi Bryon and Hifibri - both of your last posts have fascinated me. I did not realize that audiophiles used the term "warmth" in quite the way you both describe - specifically, equating warmth with the body of the sound, as Hifibri put it, or with ... | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? I would like to comment on one thing that Hifibri said - while I agree with pretty much all of the rest of the post, I would disagree with this part: "Recording studios can and usually are 'warm', dead maybe, designed to lack reverberations to con... | |
| Most sophisticated and intelligent musician I will second the Fleck and Zappa votes as well! | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi Bryon and Al - Al, you interpreted my comments exactly right, and clarified/elaborated them nicely with your discussion of hall ambience. Bryon, I am not so sure, though, that it has as much to do with distance from the performers in the hall, ... | |
| Most sophisticated and intelligent musician Wynton Marsalis, for sure. | |
| What is “warmth” and how do you get it? Hi Bryon - for me, assembling a system that sounds "real" is automatically also going to be a system that sounds "warm." I suspect this is true for the great majority of audiophiles out there, especially those whose reference is live, unamplified ... | |
| Vinyl cleanliness I would agree with Elizabeth. Also, I listen primarily to classical music, and I find that classical music lovers tend to take better care of their records, so even buying used I have had quite good luck with noise issues. Very few of the records ... | |
| Best amplifier and preamp for klipsch heresy 3 Another vote for tubes here, though if you want to stay solid state, you won't do too much better than that NAD in it's price range. |