mapman
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| DynAudio C4 _ Explodes my sonic perspective I really liked reading about your adventure auditioning new speakers.Have you taken the plunge and bought yet?I consider Dynaudio to be a modern gold standard in regards to sound. You may pay for it, but most all Dyns I have heard are hard to faul... | |
| What are you 'TRULY' Looking for in Loudspeaker... "What are you 'TRULY' Looking for in Loudspeaker...and system?"Gotta sound "right" and be able to afford it."Have you really studied the options and do you really understand what they can possibly give you in return?"Yes and generally yes. | |
| Review: d-sonic m2-1000s Amplifier Power consumption during idle should be low so leave the amps on when not using to help with break in.I leave my IcePower based amps on most of the time except if I will be away more than overnight.Nice to heat something about these amps. I suspec... | |
| Class D amp wyred4sound and B&W 803D If I had my BC ref1000m monoblocks back when I had B&Ws, the B&Ws might still be here I suspect.WYred + B&W should be a very good pairing. | |
| How does the drum kit sound on your rig? sounds very good, best by far on the ohm 5s. as good as any rig i have heard. hard to beat. no complaints. recording quality will vary though.this was a goal well accomplished for my system. | |
| W4S ST-1000, How Loud Should It Play? when i first acquired my ice power amps, and listened for the first time, i was totally disoriented compared to my prior well reviewed amp, a mf a3cr. i turned up the volume and little seemed to happen other than the music seemed to expand but onl... | |
| W4S ST-1000, How Loud Should It Play? IF Wyred is like similar Icepower amps I am familiar with, you could be going louder than it seems by listening due to the highly transparent and non fatiguing nature of the amp.Ear bleeding is not a good thing. I find it hard to make my ears blee... | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti "Do you really believe that kit speaker was designed to have sound of it's own especially when before same box was called to be made of MDF?"That is my understanding, but I could be wrong, though this is a common theme I have heard regarding Audio... | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti "why not guitar wood? THe electric guitar world (some of it anyway) is obsessed with tone sustain. Strum a chord or a note and it just keeps ringing one forever."My understanding that is in line with why AN uses Baltic Birch cut to their specs the... | |
| If your whole system costs $40,000.... HEy Foster,What $7500 speakers are you running these days? IS it still the Mirage's?IS the bass finally working out? If so, what turned out to be the secret ingredient(s)? | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti I'm with GSM as well.Always fun to experiment though I suppose. That's worth something....I'd keep an eye on re-sale value though were I to tinker with an already well received and not inexpensive design, like the Audio Notes. But I suppose, as lo... | |
| What does it take to qualify as a reviewer? "I don't get the difference between people on Amazon, Crutchfield and this site."People on this site on average are more OCD when it comes to audio than people on those sites.For better or for worse....Also those sites track cumulative average rat... | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti Magico Audio Notes.Take the best of both worlds and sounds like a winner, doesn't it?Or does it?Is it Magico or Audio Note?Or something totally different?Only one way to know for sure.Someone build it and listen and see! My bet though is the cabin... | |
| If your whole system costs $40,000.... Herman is right, of course.But I suppose if the op is synthesizing the data properly and everyone is having fun, being right once again doesn't really matter? | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti "Right now, I am not convinced that baltic birch is my best choice although I realize it is my safest."Given that it is seemingly the choice of the people who designed the speaker, ie the "experts", I would assert that it is also the best choice f... |