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| Avalon: Eidolon vs Opus vs Opus Ceramique Hard for me to imagine any Avalon product described as sounding like Cerwin Vega. Imaging problems can be due to any number of factors. Any full range speaker (of which I certainly believe the Eidolon to be) will be more critical of room placement... | |
| Avalon Acoustics' Eidolon Diamond Insofar as this discussion seems to focus on the engineering aspect of the Eidolon Diamond, you should at least be aware of the facts. In addition to the diamond tweeter, there are a new woofer (with the same cone diameter), new internal wiring an... | |
| CD direct to amp vs active preamp Count me among those who run the Accuphase DP-75V directly into the amp. Like Kelly, I too sold my preamp which at the time was a Rowland Synergy II (previous to latest surface mount board technology) powered by Rowland's own battery power supply ... | |
| Home Theater for Dummies Viggen has it wrong. Steering logic not based on frequency w/ the exception of the subwoofer (LFE) channel. Has more to do w/ phase relationships derived from the stereo (e.g. L-R=surround, L+R=C) information. The surround channels of ProLogic I a... | |
| Avalon: Eidolon vs Opus vs Opus Ceramique A familial quality among different speakers from a single manufacturer is not a unique trait. These three speakers share the same midrange and tweeter drivers, so one would expect a particularly strong resemblance among among them. I am interested... | |
| Help pick opening song for my film 1. "Forever" by the Beach Boys (Sunflower album)2. "Devoted to You" by The Everly Brothers3. "One Step Away" by The Mavericks (Music for All Occasions4. "Loving You" by The Mavericks from the same albumDon't be fooled- Mavericks are not country bu... | |
| Accuphase DP-85 My preamp was a Jeff Rowland Synergy II with a battery power supply. This is the version of the Synergy before the most recent IIi designation with incorporates the new surface mount technolgy. DP-75V sounded better with direct connection (amplifi... | |
| Accuphase DP-85 Reminder to all Accuphase users. As the designs of these players are not internally balanced, the players will sound better through their unbalanced (i.e. coaxial) outputs. Of course this is only possible if the downstream component likewise has u... | |
| Best Amp for Eidolon Accuphase A-50V hands down. I previously owned the Rowland Model 10. If you have a smallish room, a single A-50V will work fine and subjectively sounds much more authoritative than the Rowland. A pair of A-50V's running in mono may be overkill. Al... | |
| Sony SACD Monsters: Already Obsolete? I read in the April issue of Stereophile that Sony dropped list price of the 777ES from $3500 to $2500. This sounds like an inventory correction move if they also ceased production (not mentioned in the article however). | |
| Avalon Opus vs. Verity Parsifal Encore Ok, I have to confess. I am the owner of Eidolons. Chearly it has a better low end than the Verity's....but oh what a midrange and sounstage depth. I have to say if I had to do it all over again..I don't know. When I made the purchase of the Eidol... | |
| ayre V1x or Rowland 10? Seeing as how the Rowland Model 10 is a replacement for the Model 2, it is unlikely that it would be a step down sonically (from the Model 2). The Model 10 employs Rowland's latest technology in power supply design (digital switch mode). The monob... | |
| Your Best Hobbies (other than Audio) Living in New England, my wife and I are boating afficionados. But wait- we've named our boat after my spearkers (Eidolon). Pretty pathetic, huh? No one in the boating world has made the connection yet. | |
| Power cord recommendation needed I use Custom Power Cord Company's (CPCC) Model 11 with my Model 10. Check out the review of the Rowland Model 8T in TAS, the reviewer used the Model 11 with good results although the power supplies are totally different between these two fine ampl... | |
| Recommend a 20A power cord? My response does not address any qualitatve differences between the Jeff Rowland Model 10 and Model 8T. I was pointing out that the TAS reviewer suggested that the Model 8T greatly benefited from the use of CPCC's after-market power cord. If we ac... |