mapman
Responses from mapman
| Speaker appearance verses musicality. You pay for both appearance/build quality as well as sound quality. How much of each matters to each individual and how much they are willing to pay for it is a personal decision along with the rest. | |
| I Haven't Seen These In Years... OHM Acousticsfor years has provided very reasonably priced upgrades and support for essentially every speaker they have produced over the last 40 years or so, many of which are as you describe. They also sell complete factory refurbished models fr... | |
| Ohm Walsh 5.5000 Upgrade Kosh,I am not familiar with the "LE" model designation on the Walsh 5s.Can you tell me what the Walsh 5LE is and how different say from original Walsh 5s from back in the 80s or perhaps the latter mkII series that pre-dated the S3 series and most ... | |
| Here I go, shooting myself in the foot tm,I went into a large local mom and pop electronics part store nearby recently that still carries a lot of the items Radio Shack and Lafayette carried years ago. Still no tubes though surprisingly.I did find 12AX7s for my ARC pre-amp recently for... | |
| Ohm Walsh 5.5000 Upgrade Always nice to hear from other current day OHM affectionado's!There's probably an upgrade from 5S3 drivers to 5000 drivers on my OHM F cabinets at some point down the road, but I am very satisfied with what I have for now.Do you know if your 5 dri... | |
| Here I go, shooting myself in the foot "charging a couple of bucks for the same tube that's now being sold for hundreds"I used to sell tubes in Radio Shack and Lafayette Radio, mid to late 70s.Most sold in $4-$20 range as I recall.Big Bucks today....People need to realize that tube gea... | |
| Audio's Biggest Loser? Speakers and amps tend to be the biggest/heaviest.Class D Icepower amps push the limit regarding power output in a small efficient package.Speakers will depend largely on room size. Lots of small packages that work well in smaller room. The OHM Wa... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Dukes of Dixieland on 1959 Audio Fidelity vinyl. Nice! Interesting technical specs regarding the recording on the album cover. Hi Fi was a big deal back then and some labels really made an all out assault on sound quality and people took notice.Th... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave It took me years to achieve it, but now my best recipe or great bass for reasonable cost are newer OHM series 3 or X000 series Walsh speakers driven by a good 500w/ch Icepower AMP. MIT networked ICs seem to work well in this combo.Set this up well... | |
| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems Most speakers I have heard that do bass well are not considered high efficiency.I do not have enough experience with high end high efficiecy speakers to say.I think I notice it with more common commercial and other horn designs I have heard but th... | |
| Beatles USB via Squeezebox Touch I use lossless .wav. The sound quality is top notch. I would not worry about that. That's assuming the conversion software works properly as one would expect.The location of the source music files on the computer is also not a factor in sound qual... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave The reason most hifi home audio gear has almost always been spec'ed from 20hz-20000khz is because that covers the useful range in the audio spectrum that people can generally hear.Individual hearing ability varies though. Many cannot hear this ful... | |
| Beatles USB via Squeezebox Touch Probably a good idea to copy the files to disk and play from there, similar to ripping a CD, but should be much faster than ripping.That will save wear and tear on the source usb device. Better to store that away in a safe place. | |
| Beatles USB via Squeezebox Touch Hmm, I have no clue but I hope someone can help.Sounds like we've reached the day where a computer science degree may be required just to be able to play the music we buy in the store.Hey Pettyofficer, where are you?Maybe PO is right?Personally, m... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? "I guess when you find something that works so well, why change it?"I tend to agree.ICs, particularly used ones that can be resold easily without taking a loss, are relatively easy things to tinker with though if one gets the urge to try some diff... |