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| Lessons learned about packing for shipment Around 1997 I purchased a pair of Walsh 5 loudspeakers from a guy in Florida (I lived in LI NY). He assured me they would be packed well. A couple of weeks later they arrive via UPS: multiple box corners crushed. Boxes looked beat bad. Opened the... | |
| CHALLENGE: Best speakers for playing 1812 Overture by Eric Kunzel with real CANON at 92+dB I haven’t listened to the Kunzel in a dog’s age but if memory serves the Mercury Living Presence is more explosive. BTW per the latter no one ever mentions the other gem on that CD: Beethoven’s Wellington. The gun shots coming in rolling volleys ... | |
| Organ CDs with really deep bass “In a Quiet Cathedral” Todd Wilson, organist, played on the Aeolian-Skinner organ at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta.(Delos cd). Deepest bass of the 500+ cds in my collection. | |
| Favorite Symphonies Quiz In no particular order:Beethoven 3Brahms 1Bruckner 8Mahler 2 & 3Sibelius 2Shostakovich 10 & 7Tchaikovsky 4Gliere 3Schumann 3Rachmaninoff 1Liszt Faust Symphony | |
| Speakers near fireplace The dry infrared heating is going to accelerate aging of the plastic and foam parts. More concerning, fire places emit enormous amounts of microparticulates, largely carbon and silica, and these will accumulate in the moving parts, especially arou... | |
| Ohm Walsh 4s worth looking into ??? I upgraded from the Walsh 5 first to the Walsh 5 Series 3 and presently the Walsh 5000. The improvements over the original are substantial: a much more detailed and transparent mid range, tighter and more tuneful bass, and a seamless coherent soun... | |
| If you could just pick one instrument that you think sounds best on your speakers I'm listening to Bachbusters now on my Walsh 5000s and the sound is remarkably crystalline and pure. But I think the Walshs do pipe organ better than any loudspeakers I have ever heard. | |
| Ownership and Review of a pair of Ohm Super Sound Cylinder I'm now driving the Ohms with the Wyred 4 Sound ST-1000 class D amp and they are an excellent match. As the Ohm 5000s have a nominal 6 ohm impedance and an easy load, the ST1000s are effectively good for 750+ watts per channel - they are never rea... | |
| Ownership and Review of a pair of Ohm Super Sound Cylinder @craigsubAs you no doubt know, the bass output of the Ohms will depend to a large degree on their proximity to the front wall - positioning is a compromise between imaging and bass. You must really love your deep bass if you find the SSC lacking a... | |
| Ownership and Review of a pair of Ohm Super Sound Cylinder Circa 1989 I was living in NYC doing my medical residency. I didn't own a stereo system and never desired to - reproduced music didn't do it for me. I was an amateur musician playing dozens of concerts every year since high school all through coll... | |
| full-scale orchestral music—best test of speakers’ potential? @twoleftears I haven't seen that BBC program. But I think it is very difficult to describe the sounds of different musical styles [in words]. To paraphrase a certain US judge: "I can't define a musical style; but I know it when I hear it." | |
| Wyred 4 Sound Class D Mono blocks SX 1000 question I've been listening to the ST1000 amp for years and it is a fantastic amp: explosive dynamics, layered soundstage, velvety midrange, kick ass bass. Personally, I prefer to put my money into expanding my CD collection rather than a new amp every co... | |
| Classical composers, symphonies Scriabin Symphony No.3 - bombastic, harmonically daring, forward looking, plenty of meat for the ears of the serious romantic symphony afficionado. The Jarvi/DNRSO performance on CHANDOS (with the excellent Arensky Silhouettes) is an absolute barn... | |
| Classical composers, symphonies Reinhold Gliere. His symphonies represent the high water mark of Russian romantic symphonies - huge orchestrations, long, ornate, with a little schmaltz. His Third Symphony "Ilya Murometz" is over one hour long unedited (which it often is). I own ... | |
| full-scale orchestral music—best test of speakers’ potential? @twoleftears My apologies - you are correct in distinguishing polarity from phase. In my mind, a 180 degree phase shift is equivalent to a polarity flip; but they are not the same strictly defined. I'm using a Wyred4Sound STP-SE preamp which provi... |