mapman
Responses from mapman
| What does one purchase after owning horns? "martin collums measured THD at 110 db"For those kinds of volumes, except perhaps in the case of smaller rooms, good horns in particular, like Avantgarde should shine and be a safe choice.Again, the advantage is efficiency and the ability to GO LO... | |
| What CDP gets really close to vinyl? "My real excitement about this whole experience is that really decent digital playback has seemingly arrived at a reasonable price point. "Glad to hear that.Also glad to know I am not totally whacked when I make whacky claims like good digital doe... | |
| What CDP gets really close to vinyl? "Then again maybe its them ole ears, eh Mapman? I hear ya:)"No doubt years of training ones ears listening to different things makes a big difference, even if the ability to discern the higher frequencies one could hear as a youth goes mostly down... | |
| What CDP gets really close to vinyl? "It is too bad that the technology of the playback of the time wasn't in step with the engineering and quality of pressings, especially in the 50's when the LP was in its infancy."That is a fact.Hifi and stereo recordings were a big deal in market... | |
| Does a Class D amp match well with Thiel Speakers? "The 'only' issue is THIEL's propensity toward an analytical sound...usually ameliorated with tubes in the preamp stage...just sayin'."I prefer speakers capable of "analytical sound". Its usually not too hard to tame them as needed or if desired. ... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? "IMO the fact that horn-loaded drivers don't have to move much to make a lot of sound helps keep their distortion down."Mass and inertia are certainly big considerations when designing any high performance speaker, no doubt.The bending wave theory... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? " As in all fields, the application of generalizations is fraught with difficulties!"Amen, brother! | |
| What CDP gets really close to vinyl? I was not aware there is a spec dynamic range limit for vinyl?If there is, it is quite old and hence not surprising if newer CD redbook specs surpass it.Seems to me though that in practice the only limit for vinyl dynamic range is how much modulat... | |
| Headphone amp and headphones... ? I too am very interested in opinions from experienced a'goner's who have tried various headphone/amp combos over the years and settled in on a particular combo for some particular reason.I have been doing some experimenting of late with some of te... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? "lack of distortion"That's a tough case to make in reality I think.I'll buy radiation pattern control as a another unique attribute of potential benefit. | |
| Are The Klipsch Heritage Series Really Worthy? yes, they are worthy.Just don't try to fit a square peg to a round hole. Like most gear, they require proper setup and associated electronics to shine. I would want to run them off a tube amp of some sort for best results. | |
| "The Heat Pipes are coming"... The Heat Pipes are On a scale of 1-10 where 10 is the most important thing to consider for good sound, I'd say heat pipes are a -5. | |
| Does a Class D amp match well with Thiel Speakers? I think everyone agree they need power and current.That means either Krell like big heavy and inefficient monster amp or smaller, more manageable and energy efficient Class D. | |
| Do you remember your first cd? Fresh Air 2 by Mannheim Steamroller. | |
| Does a Class D amp match well with Thiel Speakers? Class D is the first place I would look to power Thiels well.I use an ARC tube pre-amp with my Class D amp and power and current hungry OHM speakers and find that to be a very effective combo.Not all Class Ds are equally tube preamp friendly. Ones... |