mapman
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| Why not horns? macro,Have you provided pictures of your setup?That would help others get a better picture of where you are coming from. | |
| CD vs. Vinyl "For CDs, you can get audiophile sound for hundreds, not thousands. And the rig should last you decades without any pain. "Is this perhaps part of why many high end audio buffs are so pro vinyl and anti CD? Hundreds of dollars is certainly not hig... | |
| CD vs. Vinyl Physics accounts for much of the difference in sound.A stylus tracking a record has mass and is hampered by inertia as it tracks a record and modulates to produce a signal. High frequency transients, if even present in the recording to start with,... | |
| Bel Canto Ref 1000 vs. Spectron Musician III Mk 2 Impedance matching to pre-amp especially if a tube pre-amp is always a consideration for any amp, not just SPectral or Class D.Stock Icepower modules have 10K input impedance which is not optimal for use with most tube pre-amps.BC ref1000 uses sto... | |
| Does the quality of a digital signal matter? "I've never owned a player with one, so I assume that error handling is not an issue."I would not assume that all devices or software programs are designed to deliver optimal sound and hence all source bits in real time. Some may take short cuts a... | |
| When does analog compete with digital? Rumor has it Nasa developed a gimble mounted turntable for the Apollo astronauts back in the day when vinyl ruled that could also operate in zero gravity.Your taxpayer dollars at work....Then again, other rumors have it that the whole Apollo deal ... | |
| Does the quality of a digital signal matter? "It's an analogue process using digital factors."Or more precisely its an analogue process (all real world physical processes including electronics and sound are analog in nature) but one which uses digital signal encoding and processing techniques. | |
| Does the quality of a digital signal matter? Yes, it matters.All the bits have to be retrieved and transmitted accurately.Then the bits comprising each sample have to be converted to the proper analog voltage level by the DAC at precisely the right time.Variations in these two fundamental op... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? Regarding expectations, the trap to avoid is expecting a system to make recordings sound better than they are. If you look for a system that makes everything sound perfect, you will find yourself on a never ending and costly quest to achieve the i... | |
| Why not horns? I meant to say prices have to come way down to re-sell which means the owner will take a big financial hit if they re-sell new big bucks speakers. | |
| Why not horns? The cost is the one thing I suspect I could not live with and would be the reason "why not horns" for me in this particular case.Also there is a lot of competition at the $53000 price point.Also it seems that very expensive speakers in general see... | |
| Why not horns? OM HornsThese are horns that I think I could live with some day if they sound as good as they look. | |
| Bel Canto Ref 1000 vs. Spectron Musician III Mk 2 BC ref100mkII is definitely not for those looking for very warm tube sound in an amp.My experience is it delivers what is fed into it, ie if you use tube pre-amp and/or source, the sound of those will be delivered, but does not deliver any tube-li... | |
| Bel Canto Ref 1000 vs. Spectron Musician III Mk 2 One of the more telling things about the bass with the BC ref100mk2s is that everything I play is cleaner and more defined and dynamic top to bottom than most anything else I have heard. Even modern loudness wars CDs that contain a lot of energy t... | |
| Bel Canto Ref 1000 vs. Spectron Musician III Mk 2 I've never heard Spectron but the bass with BC ref1000mk2 is interesting. When I first heard them compared to my prior amp, a Musical Fidelity A3CR, I wondered where the bass was. It turned out it was there more than ever just so tight and control... |