mapman
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| Do you find yourself turning down the bass on Coldplay albums? Nope. I just let ‘er rip. Check room acoustics including floor interaction if floors are suspended plywood. Isolation pads or stands underneath speakers might help if so. Or just try experimenting with speaker placement. Further from walls and ev... | |
| Best tweak It’s the good old fashioned ear cleaning by a competent ear doctor. If you have never had this done do it now. It’s even a freebie if covered by your medical insurance. | |
| A Skeptics Digital Upgrade Journey If it works out in the end that’s all that matters. | |
| Occasional Sound Imbalance Issue Go no further unless ears are clean. Check each one out one at a time to see if equal. Not to say clean ears are necessarily equal but at least that’s a start. Next would be a hearing test. After that, then you are in business. | |
| UPS. Friend Or Foe? Shipping large delicate devices is always risky business. You can’t cut corners and have to go the extra mile to make sure items are essentially bulletproof. Is a bumpy and often rushed system and accidents happen all the time. I avoid it all... | |
| Tube or solid state I’m done with tubes altogether. | |
| Best Speaker for a reflective room ? If it were me, for normal listening from various locations in the room, this sounds like a job for Ohm Walsh. These just put the music in the room as if the players were there which is how concert venues work. You might be able to do some things t... | |
| Audiphile Press: Am I jaded, experienced, or has it declined? Dinosaurs. | |
| Solving the "complex music problem"? One reason is when there is less for one to focus on, it is easier to take it all in. | |
| HiRes lossless FLAC Radio streams RP, Naim and the 7 superstereo hi res stations. | |
| Solving the "complex music problem"? The relative scale of music recordings is a very good topic and something that does not get the attention it merits in discussions about good sound at home It’s true the room is the biggest difference maker in the end especially for recordings of... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D getting some love Those mbls! Good lord in heaven! The Atmas amps…..having heard them Id say not too shabby either and way more affordable. | |
| chatGPT identifies concentric driver designs like Ohm Walsh.... Ohm is really not a “concentric design” though they may share certain sonic traits with others that are. First time I ever heard Ohm called concentric. Yes they are a unique patented design but really nothing concentric about it. Kef, Tannoy, ... | |
| Has anyone noticed a slow down in sales? Probably. | |
| Class D with high efficiency speakers Only combo like that I have heard is Atmasphere Class d running Classic Audio Design at Capital Audiofest this year and the Class D sounded spot on and hung in there with the OTLs. |