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| 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... | |
| Mahalia Jackson? She does some vocals on Ellington's Black Brown and Beige Suite that are out of this world. Get the CD version with the extra takes of her parts. | |
| Best Song Intro "I Need A Lover" by John Mellencamp may be the relatively longest intro to a radio friendly pop song ever. | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? "Ohm is one of the few speaker makers that truly has one "sound" that is just scaled for different room volumes. "I suspect OHM might lay claim to being the best at this in particular. | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? "I was talking with John Strohbeen about using them for surround duty, he says they will work fine, but the omni version of them works even better for surround duties."I think the omni version does not employ the internal damping in the wall facin... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Bond,Your surround sound experience with the Walshes is very interesting. I have not read much about Walshes in surround sound systems and I do not do surround sound, so this is all news to me. My gut instinct is that the wide range omni Walsh des... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Bond,I lucked out somewhat. I open up the pre-amp. It uses 6 12AX7 dual triodes, 3 in the line section and 3 in the phono section. The problem was in the line section since I heard it on all inputs. So I switched tube pairs 1 by one between line a... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Thanks Rebbe.I had to grit my teeth a bit when swallowing the cost of these amps (not small change even used), but I have to say that at least they are delivering in spades so far as was hoped! | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? "They are just less exciting and involving, even while they are listenable."That is the nature of the beast with lesser recordings to some extent.In my case, lesser pop/rock recordings typically have manifested themselves with a dull and perhaps s... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Its striking to me how much the sound of both my OHM Walsh pairs changes whenever I make a change to electronics. The difference now with the Bel Canto Ref 1000mkii's is perhaps the most striking of all. The sound is exceptionally lean and mean no... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? the ref1000mkiis arrived yesterday just in time for me to be snowed in with them and get some listening in.i'll leave a teaser and say that things have changed significantly. details to follow once i have more time to tune in.reb, your room does r... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? PSB Synchrony 2's?Excellent choice. As I think I've posted around here on A'gon somewhere, these are one of very few speakers that I could afford that I have heard that I could live happily with long term I think if I had to. They are a reasonable... |