mapman
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| High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more I'm just wondering if there is anybody out there who would recommend building a system around a SET amp to an audiophile who listens to a lot of modern popular music, like metal, synth pop, rap/hip hop, etc. For other more acoustic forms of music ... | |
| High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more "...while in general ICE, Tripath, and other chip amps are VERY good for the money they are still missing some of what SETs do. IME."What do SETs do that other amps cannot?Can't the reverse be true also? | |
| Dynamics at lower volumes? For dynamic speakers, low mass materials (like paper) used to construct the cone (while maintaining rigidness) help with micro-dynamics and transients, which are the dynamics that matter at low volumes. This is because of simple physics: low mass ... | |
| High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more One side note. I think the emergence of very high quality class D amps provides a new alternative that makes it more practical for many to get the most out of less efficient, harder to drive designs in a manner that is competitive with high effici... | |
| 802d for a 10x13 room, 8ft ceiling - am I nuts? Get speakers that fit the room as recommended up front and get teh best possible sound and save money on speakers and perhaps room treatments as well rather than attempt to reel things back in after the fact appropriately by trying (probably unsuc... | |
| 802d for a 10x13 room, 8ft ceiling - am I nuts? If you like large sound stage and accurate imaging, consider a pair of good monitors in a room that size, or a different model floorstander with drivers physically located closer together at listening level.I had B&W P6s and large Magnepans in... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? The Bel Canto ref 1000mkii mono blocks in my system might be. Top quality sound and power delivery as best I cal tell. Not sure why I'd ever need to change, unless I get bumped on the head like in a sitcom and suddenly become a SET guy or something. | |
| Select Your Less Than Ideal System Definitely C.Excellent ICs need not cost a lot relative to the others. | |
| High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more I'm still waiting for the worlds first field coil version of a Walsh driver based system. Dale Harder, are you out there?I'm assuming that could raise the efficiently level of Walsh drivers significantly to enable them be be driven optimally by mo... | |
| Best System for Pink Floyd Some ancient history.When it first came out, "The Wall" was one of my most successful demo disks back in 1978 in selling equipment to fellow college students when I used to do such things.We sold JBL, Advent, Infinity, EPI, Electrovoice, KLH (back... | |
| Best System for Pink Floyd I don't think I could better what I have for Pink Floyd.if you think PF is a good audio challenge, try the albums "Lighthouse Sun", "Deadwing" or "Fear Of a Blank Planet" by Porcupine Tree.If the system is able to deliver the goods on most any cla... | |
| Computer Speakers - $200 -$300 price range i'd go Klipsch for this application and call it a day. | |
| High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more Isn't it true in general that the higher the efficiency of speakers, the more sensitive they are (in general) to minor variations in the signal fed them?I've always assumed that deficient setup is the reason why many do not take to Avantgardes, be... | |
| Who makes a good CD recorder? the denon in my system works quite well and should not cost much if you can find one.if you will just be recording tracks from cd, the computer option is best. windows media player does it all.i use my recorder mainly for recording from analog sou... | |
| High Efficiency Speakers Your top 3 or more tvad,do you know what say the klipsch forte or forte 2 at their lower price point give up to the ans or tonians? |