mapman
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| If you wanted to impress someone, which track? I was playing Stan Getz "The Girl From Ipanema" and my 14 year old son got off his Xbox and walked in the room to see what was playing. That doesn't happen very often! It did sound VERY good! | |
| Anyone Use A CD Recorder For Main Play Back? I have for a number of years. My Denon replaced a California Audio Labs icon Mkii that croaked nicely.Most of my playback comes of the music server these days, but thats no fault of the player/recorder. | |
| Black-Eyed-Peas, the future of modern music? " I hat"d Grand Funk Railroad."Big mistake! They were an awesome power trio! Cream got all the love from the critics. | |
| Black-Eyed-Peas, the future of modern music? not so "vacuous tawdry consumerism" at its best! | |
| Toddler-Friendly Budget Speakers? Actually, some visiting kids accidentally tipped over my B&W P6s once. Luckily, by chance, there was something standing next to them that prevented the fall. So yes, accidents do happen!The OHMs with the sloping veneer are pretty stable and ru... | |
| Why not horns? Anybody know offhand if/how Klipschorns deal with time alignment? | |
| Toddler-Friendly Budget Speakers? A used pair of older OHM Walshes with the sloping cabinets are fairly hard to tip over, have a fairly small footprint can be had for not much, and the drivers are enclosed in a metal can. Hows that for isolation?I had narrow floorstanders and plan... | |
| Why not horns? Herman,That's a good point regarding time alignment.Phase coherency is a must for good sound in my mind, yet this is the first I heard of it addressed in a horn design, yet horns would seem to be the most susceptible.It would almost seem like a se... | |
| If you wanted to impress someone, which track? "The Theme From Shaft."That is good!It is on this:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000KP62UM/3dgazo391-20Lots of classics to recommend on this recent and nicely mastered release! Not just "Theme From Shaft" but "Son Of Shaft" to boot! | |
| Why not horns? Unsound, Yes I missed in reading first time that your reference was regarding horns.You may be right. It would take a lot for me to live exclusively with horns I think, but I do find them intriguing, if not all that practical perhaps. Luckily, I a... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? "Rebbi- do you miss them?"I don't think Reb will know for sure until he has evaluated the MErlin monitors. From what I know, I think those are a good choice for assessing what is possible with monitors and the Merlins are probably a good choice fo... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? One thing I notice about Shahinian versus OHM is Shahinian has a forward firing woofer I believe. The OHM Walsh driver fires downward. A forward firing driver might impart more low end impact that can be felt to a listener sitting in front than a ... | |
| Why not horns? "what do you mean by forward and laid back"Laid back meaning the soundstage is mostly behind the plane of the speakers.Forward meaning that the soundstage is not so much behind the plane of the speakers and some things may sound like they originat... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Rpfef,Plinius SA100/MkIII is 100 w/ch correct?That's OK, but probably not enough to bring out the best in any OHM Walshes, particularly in regards to bass impact based on my experience with them. I would think that would go pretty loud still thoug... | |
| Best budget speakers for near-field/small space dual concentric drivers (a highly approximated point source) are a natural solution for nearfield listening I would think.Doesn't KEf have some models that use this approach also? I've always thought this to be a very practical design for applicat... |