mapman
Responses from mapman
| Most intriguing DAC? That would have to be the Benchmark based on combination of high detail/resolution, jitter immunity, and relative value. | |
| Anyone heard Blue Circle Penny's? No, but I have heard many OHM Walsh speaks and would really like to hear the Pennys. Penny's use the OHM Walsh CLS driver for all but the low bass as I understand it.I've heard MBLs and the OHMs are competitive. They are designed to go nearer to w... | |
| How do you train your ears? The only way to establish an unbiased frame of reference is to go to listen carefully to live performances of various types in various venues. | |
| Thinking of moving to a Headphone system, thoughts Its a free country. Why not?A good pair of Stax maybe? | |
| A look into classical Lots of classical variety on Internet Radio.All you need for a great variety of Internet Radio with excellent sound is a Network Player like Roku Soundbridge ( | |
| Azur 640p /w Denon DL103 and Clearaudio Virtuoso? .3 mV is only 60% of the .5 mV minimum. That can be significant.You might have to turn the volume up further than normal at best to get to normal listening volumes, or the volume might not ever get as loud as you like. If you have to turn the volu... | |
| Azur 640p /w Denon DL103 and Clearaudio Virtuoso? You'll probably need a step-up device for proper gain with the low output MC DL103.I think the Virtuoso MM will be OK. | |
| Best lines in a song Smeyers,One of my favorites! Thanks for covering it! | |
| How is your power bill? Just think of the impact audiophiles could have on world energy consumption if we all dropped our monster amps and switched (no pun) to Class D!Then again, audiophiles are so few in number overall that it would probably make little difference.They... | |
| How is your power bill? Obama is also a big fan of horns as a way to achieve higher DBs with less power consumption.Invest in Klipsch, Avantgarde and SET amp producers!If he taxes my power hungry OHMs though, watch out! | |
| How is your power bill? Rumor has it Obama actually likes tubes. They are hip, look cool as they glow and thereby are good for his image!I think there may be an "earmark" in that recent stimulus package to fund research for more energy efficient valves, though! | |
| An Advent Guy Cwlondon,I hear what you're saying. In terms of possible sound quality, I might agree in general but there have been improvements to many individual component designs I'm pretty sure. How significant are they? That's largely debateable.I do think ... | |
| An Advent Guy They are a classic.I know it ain't perfect but I'm loving the sound coming out of my early 80's vintage Dual 1264 table with almost as ancient Goldring MM cartridge in in my second system more than ever with the equally vintage Yamaha cr-420 recei... | |
| How is your power bill? At the risk of sounding "smug", Class D amps are the equivalent of hybrid or even electric cars in terms of energy consumption.Similarly spec'ed and much larger Class A amps are like Hummers! | |
| A/B Vinyl/Digital Hevac,Not familiar with the BErkeley.Agree DCS is very nice but way too expensive.I'm very happy with my $500 Paradisea DAC sourced from either Roku Soundbridge Network Player or modest Denon player, |