mapman
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| Bel Canto verrsus Odyssey Stratos You'll have a hybrid sound that should be pretty darn nice I would think. | |
| An Experiment in Speaker Placement Find a way to keep the proper setup (jewelry is usually an effecive bribe)! That's the way it should be! | |
| Ohm Walsh vs. Mirage OMD 28 Try toeing in the right speaker for more direct exposure at your listening position to move the image to the right? Or, if both toed in already equally toe-out the left speaker.Sometimes a balance control can come in handy! | |
| Your favorites amplifiers for their visual look ? How about the Carver Silver Sevens? | |
| Any one else like the class D ICE power amps? Yes, I am firmly entrenched in the Class D/ICE camp these days. When done right, I see no down side.Three things I think that do matter from vendor to vendor:1) how well the design deals with potential RF and electric curcuit noise that I have hea... | |
| When It All Comes Together-Heaven "The Yes Album" is a good one! | |
| Speaker Longevity Has the sound degraded? In what way!If it has, the speakers may just be the messenger and the problem could be elsewhere (if there is one).If sound has degraded, I'd suspect a tube or tubes in the other gear to be the most likely culprit. ? | |
| How is online radio so transparent? I have a $50 Philips stereo clock radio with CD that does not sound bad and does its job just fine. You just have to scale down expectations somewhat to fit the scale of the device, as Al alluded to. Sounds very nice indeed with a pair of decent h... | |
| To big to fail? What road are we headed down? I've always had way more issues with the user unfriendly packaging of CDs than I do with the sound quality. As a corollary, if I could convert all my records magically to digital in one fell swoop, I would still keep the records mainly for the pac... | |
| How is online radio so transparent? I have a couple of CDs I have ripped to my current music server and listened to that I recorded from the realmusic service (mp3 quality I believe even) back early on a couple years back when I first ran my PC laptops analog audio output into my ol... | |
| Opinions on these amps? Rsfphil,60 watts may be fine in terms of getting the speakers loud enough but not all 60 watt amps are created equal in terms of being able to drive speakers in a manner that delivers smooth response top to bottom. 'Difficult load" generally refer... | |
| Dynaudio Confidence C1 broken & Cap question The most common cause of blowing out speaker drivers is clipping from an amp being overdriven.I don't know what amp you use, but offloading the low end to a good sub like that sounds like the right thing to do.Also, if the large excursions are due... | |
| Has anyone heard the Denon 103-SA? Raul,Can you elaborate on how the Azden beats the Denon 103R and under what conditions?How would it fit into my Linn Axis table with basik tonearm?The Denons have been around a while but are still manufactured new I believe. How old are the Azdens... | |
| How high end must your system be... Lots of factors that determine....how high end the system is is probably not a determining factor in of itself, though better systems will probably reveal more differences in general.Try it yourself and see. You do not have to spend a lot to exper... | |
| Dynaudio Confidence C1 broken & Cap question Not familiar with Dynaudio warranty policy specifically, but you generally need a receipt, registration or some dated proof of purchase to obtain service under warranty from any vendor.If not under warranty, or dated proof of purchase is not avail... |