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| Most high-quality loudspeakers are 4-Ohms I agree with Swampwalker - most really high efficiency speakers are 8 ohms or even 16 ohms. There are a great many of us who prefer these mostly vintage speaker types (that were designed for tubes, not solid state) to most if not all of the modern... | |
| Great recording of William Tell Overture? Second the Abbado - another good record was the Reiner one | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Cbw, loved your post! Almarg, I have always enjoyed your interesting and informative posts as well. In this case, however, although I see what you are driving at, I am not sure that the substitution of "accuracy" for "neutrality" really changes an... | |
| Primaluna and Rogue No, Don, the Rogue would probably not sound bright in comparison to the NAD. Those NAD's are not bad little amps, my brother has one of their integrateds. | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Thanks for the clarification, Bryon. I guess where we really disagree, then, is on whether you have in fact proposed "conditions that reliably indicate the presence of a characteristic," emphasis on reliably. I must have missed Hamburg's post - he... | |
| Primaluna and Rogue Sogood, I did not hear the Rogue on my Klipsch speakers, I heard them through a pair of ProAc Studio 140's, through which I have also heard my amp. The Rogue's have much more power than I need to drive my Cornwall 2's, for sure (so do the PrimaLun... | |
| Primaluna and Rogue If you don't think they sound bright, fine! I meant in comparison to the PrimaLuna's, and actually in comparison to all other tube amps I have heard. I have heard them over the exact same set of speakers, wire, etc. as the PrimaLuna's, and everyon... | |
| Primaluna and Rogue Tpreaves is correct - these are two very different sounding products. The Rogue amps are the more modern type of tube amp design, much higher powered, much brighter, more solid-state-like sound. The PrimaLuna amps have a much smoother, warmer, mor... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Very interesting thoughts, Bryon, points on the water analogy well taken. By the way, I did not mean to suggest that science or truth should be thrown out, and I am not quite sure what exactly about my post suggested that, though clearly it must h... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Interesting points, guys. Dgarretson, in general I agree with you - certainly a designer of a piece of audio equipment is not thinking of every timbre of every instrument when he "voices" his equipment. Though I do remember reading an interview wi... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Hi Bryon - I am once again thankful I became a musician, and not a writer. I tend to ramble and obscure the very points I am most trying to make. The answer I would make to your question in your last post is that I believe there is no such thing a... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Interesting posts, guys. First, the 50K systems example. I thought I had made it clear that I was also speaking of this level of system in my example. I do indeed maintain that even if heard in exactly the same space (easily done in a large dealer... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Fascinating discussion! Newbee, I agree with you 100%. Bryon, thanks for more clarification on your concept. I guess to summarize my objection about the use of the term "neutrality" - every person is going to have a totally different conception of... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Great posts - Byron, I guess what myself, Newbee, Kijanki, Shadorne, and others are saying here is that no two people are ever going to agree on just what "neutrality" sounds like. A couple of recent posts mentioned "if we could hire conductors, m... | |
| Recommendation needed for Turntable Since you enjoyed the P2, I would say you should try a new P3-24. It should be a nice upgrade from the P2, which is a very nice table. |