mapman
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| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Frazeur,Fun stuff!Unless something has changed with the latest line, I think the larger Walsh drivers will take perhaps a tad longer to break in, all other things aside. My Walsh 5's did.My 100S3s came used and already broken in so I cannot compar... | |
| Ohm Walsh vs. Mirage OMD 28 "There are two placement issues with the OMDs, however. If you want that deep, holographic soundstage, you want to pull them further into the room and place them wider if you can. If you put them where you put a typical forward-firing speaker you'... | |
| Ohm Walsh vs. Mirage OMD 28 I think need for use of damping materials will depend on the room and user preference. I have never used any nor been strongly tempted to. Historically I've found wood or other lively floor materials to be the main issue in that the OHMs are botto... | |
| Ohm Walsh vs. Mirage OMD 28 yes, the OHMs are not hard to place compared to most designs, but careful placement is still needed to yield the best results possible. You can put them most anywhere and they will sound fine for background listening perhaps but imaging accuracy a... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? I have a 9 CD Time/Life 50s CD collection. This includes many popular tracks from that decade and sound like it must be remastered. Most of it is mono recordings. I've found remastered mono recordings from this era sound quite spectacular on my sy... | |
| Are Carver Preamps Any Good? I have a Carver c-6 pre-amp that will be going up for sale soon. I used it in my system for a good 15 years without complaint until recently upgrading to a much more expensive ARC tube pre-amp.They are unique values these days with very good perfo... | |
| Ohm Walsh vs. Mirage OMD 28 haven't heard the Mirages but on paper, I see they have two crossover points and the omni driver configuration appears to target mainly the higher frequencies.OHM walsh drivers in comparison have a single crossover point at a relatively high frequ... | |
| why does digital volume control cause loss in info " In simple terms why do you drop a bit to attenuate the volume digitally"i suspect because, assuming all bits in each sample are used at maximum volume (amplitude), it takes fewer bits to represent each sample with the same resolution in the same... | |
| Changing the flavor of gear I'm thinking this approach could be quite cost effective, although gourmet food products are not cheap. Who needs a Lessloss Blackbody anyway when Rocky Road ice cream is available? | |
| High Current SS amps with input impedance = 200K al,the 45 amp spec is published in the amp's user guide on the bel canto website. | |
| High Current SS amps with input impedance = 200K Dark,Not sure about a clear answer to your question.The BC ref1000 specs indicate Peak Output Current: 45 amperes.I've seen higher and lower. I suspect the switching nature of the power supply optimizes application of delivered current perhaps in ... | |
| Changing the flavor of gear Kind of like audio astrology. Interesting..... | |
| High Current SS amps with input impedance = 200K Hello all.Some closure on this for me finally. I ended up with a used pair of Bel Canto Ref1000 mkiis. They are up and running in my system. Very sweet indeed! I'll post some more impressions or whatever else might come up relating to these back i... | |
| Can Mac/PC compete with High End CDT?? "one of the review in TAS tested the benchmark dac with different transport and yet they sound quite different.( the unit is supposely immune to jitter)."Haven't read that but my guess if true is that different transports perhaps had different app... | |
| Can Mac/PC compete with High End CDT?? You might want to try using the networked music player (Roku, Squeezebox, etc.) approach before drawing any final conclusions about viability of a computer/hard disk as a source of music. With this configuration, your audio system is isolated from... |