mapman
Responses from mapman
| Requesting Your Expertise - Best Options - High Sensitivity Speakers For A Smaller Room Curious the motivation for high sensitivity speakers in a smaller room? A low power tube amp being used perhaps? If so I would lean towards Fritz speakers personally as an easy load to drive. I also like Volti a lot for use with a tube amp.... | |
| Amplifier recommendations for 86 dB Sensitivity Speakers I am in agreement with and will now defer to the AI summary provided above which summarizes things very practically, I would say. For absolute best results, you want to throw the kitchen sink at those speakers amp-wise. Class D will help keep ... | |
| Has anyone sold over $35k worth of equipment over the net? How do you protect yourself? Good Question! Using a reputable dealer like TMR can make things as easy as possible if not looking for absolute top dollar. Otherwise I’d probably lean towards a local sale with a due diligence process. What else? Donate? Why not? | |
| Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows Happy thoughts only, right? Else be sent to the cornfield? | |
| SS amp or receiver that sounds like Tube Amp I can vouch for what @atmasphere said. | |
| Amplifier recommendations for 86 dB Sensitivity Speakers More of an issue than efficiency actually: Those are 4 ohm nominal impedance speakers, a bad match for a tube amp. Options for best performance including ability to go loud unfettered: 1) Higher power Class a/b SS amp with high current deliv... | |
| Why not more wireless connections? Regarding all in 1 streamers, I forgot to note the Cambridge Audio Evo supports Bluetooth output connectivity to speakers as well, so possible to be totally wireless streaming with that kind of “future-fi” device. Toss in the latest cd res Bluetoo... | |
| Thoughts and suggestions please I built a large digital library prior to adding Qobuz. I also have all the records I’ve collected over the years. I own a lot of good music. I’ll worry about losing stuff I like that I don’t own when the time comes, if ever. Not losing any slee... | |
| Why not more wireless connections? Wireless WiFi data connections for streaming work 100% fine as long as you have a strong connection. That’s all I use. The key term here is it’s just another network data connection. You just need enough bandwidth to keep the data streaming. T... | |
| Last Critical Tweak… how to quell occasional high harshness…? Good suggestion to take the room out of it first in order to better understand the problem before taking any major steps to address. If one keeps spares around, which is always a good strategy, substituting one component at a time can help iso... | |
| Tune of the Day Awesome Instrumental Cover👏👏👏 | |
| What are the best GaN Amplifiers available today? @t_ramey this one (stereo). https://classdaudio.com/product/premium-gan-6-5-400w-2-channel-audio-power-amplifier-silver/ Soundstage is top notch. Listening to it now driving my big Ohm F5s. Also use it to drive a KEF ls50 meta + powered sub c... | |
| Anyone heard from Charles1dad ? Good guy! Hope all is well. | |
| ??? Where Does "High End" Start ??? Did anyone get the right answer yet? | |
| Last Critical Tweak… how to quell occasional high harshness…? Assuming everything is in good working order to start with, DSP is the ultimate and most flexible tweak. |