mapman
Responses from mapman
| Why not horns? ' I bet there aren't a handful of people here who have actually heard a front loaded bass horn of sufficient length and size like mine to properly produce a bass note.. Raise your hands.."I doubt it also. Hopefully that is not required in order to... | |
| Audiophile speakers that rock well OHM Walsh are still the best for me. And for most other kinds of music as well.Most everything else sounds merely like hifi speakers in comparison to me until one gets into certain esoteric megabuck systems where few will ever tread. | |
| Johnny Cash "Dying has never been documented so well."I think that is probably a true statement, at least in terms of music.Cash was unique in his ability to sing about things in his life that so many can relate to. I suppose its only appropriate that he know... | |
| Why I like my home system better than live music IRv,How do you know not getting the cymbals right was the speakers fault?Is it possible it could have been the rest of the system ie the amp, source or other component (even ICs) or at least that these factors contributed? | |
| Why I like my home system better than live music " I've only heard two speakers *ever* that got cymbals just right,"Which two?Thanks! | |
| DC Metro -- New YEs.Is GOTO the company that made the horn speaker system there? I have been trying to figure that out. I deduced the gentleman in the room was the designer, but I was not able to identify the company that made it. I assumed it was a custom design... | |
| Nakamichi PA-5 driving NHT 2.5i I think that is one of the Nelson pass designed Ss amps.For cost effectiveness with second hand gear, I suspect it would be hard to do better. I've come close to trying one of the better Nakamichi amps myself in recent years. Nakamichi was an affo... | |
| How does Boulder equipment avoid obsolescence? Think about which train you'd rather be on to get to your destination.A rock solid design with years of refinement and fine tuning behind it?The latest and greatest and yet unproven new design that tries to solve the same basic problem that has be... | |
| Big haul at local record show Bondman,Yes, I have barely scratched the surface regarding recording lps to digital. Too busy just listening, when I have the time! I have managed to get most of my CD collection (about 12000 tracks so far) to music server recently, and even that ... | |
| Big haul at local record show I've acquired 100s of cheap vinyl titles over the last few years. If someone is selling them and I have the time to look, I generally walk away with as many as I can. The only requirements are they be in decent shape and have teh potential to soun... | |
| Why I like my home system better than live music The ops premise is "liking" your home system better.You don't have to think your home system sounds as good as or better than live to like it better than live. People like what they like for whatever reason they like it. Nothing else really matter... | |
| How does Boulder equipment avoid obsolescence? I'm no Boulder expert by any stretch but I'm guessing it has been an established good design that has also been well executed from the start and that is what you are buying into? Why change it?I'd have to believe that something has changed in teh ... | |
| Why I like my home system better than live music "I recall reading somewhere that this was one of the (many) factors that dissuaded The Beatles from performing their later material live. There are many recordings that I love which need to be pretty thouroughly reinterpreted for live performance.... | |
| Big haul at local record show "This means that venders, who often buy whole collections, carefully price their 50s and 60s rock, but often toss classical, newer rock, and Jazz titles in a $1 or $2 bin!"Yes, there a tons of great records from that era that were panned as "not c... | |
| DC Metro -- New The systems that caught my ear that I spent time listening to were the JC Verdier/Dynamic Sounds room with the custom horns (the Dynamic Sounds phono pre-amp was dead quiet and most dynamic even on this highly revealing rig), the Cathedral speaker... |