mapman
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| What music do you want to play really loud? Also Porcupine Tree "Deadwing".They do sound good loud! Saw them live a while back in a small local venue. It was good and it was LOUD! | |
| Jethro Tull questions... FWIW:My favorites are "Stand Up", "Thick as a Brick", "Songs From the Wood" and "Aqualung"."Minstrel in the Gallery" is OK."Passion Play" never held my interest.Vinyl still tends to best CD with Tull in general in my collection.Try www.progarchive... | |
| Widening Soundstage Have you tried moving them closer together, maybe 18 inches or so each and with no toe in? Sometimes really good speakers like these will surprisingly cast a wider soundstage when closer together relative to your listening position than when farth... | |
| Where do I learn more about audio stuff? audioreview.com is pretty good also for getting a range of opinion on specific pieces. | |
| Widening Soundstage Gallo Ref 3.1's would be a very good possibility in that room as well.I just think that you are going to always have a problem with designs that fire mostly forward (or forward and backward) in that room, no matter how good they are otherwise. You... | |
| Widening Soundstage Yes, I saw the staircase as perhaps the biggest issue.If all else fails, I still think you should consider trying omnis in that room in particular.I have not heard them, but the new Pennys from Blue Circle might be worth considering. They use an O... | |
| Widening Soundstage Yes, I saw the staircase as perhaps the biggest issue.If all else fails, I still think you should consider trying omnis in that room in particular. | |
| running full range or not full range...huh? I'm assuming you mean with just the floorstanders, no additional sub in the picture.Personally, I would rely on the speakers to determine what to do with whatever clean music signal is provided to it.I would also do everything possible to make sur... | |
| I am sick of cables How can one tell when a cable "disappears"?Does that mean if I substitute another cable and the sound is the same, that they both disappear? That would seem to make sense if "disappear" means do nothing to change the sound.But I was under the impr... | |
| totem arro Agree with EthanH.That is consistent with what I've read in pro reviews as well.After all, they are tiny little beasts....only so much is possible. They do push it to the max very well though for their size. | |
| Thoughts on the best bang for the buck "So for the price of a refurb unit $500 does the decco then become a great buy? "That would seem to be the case. | |
| Ohm Walsh mkII series drivers vs. S3 series??? I have not heard the mkII but I think the evolutionary description is probably accurate.When I inquired on this topic a while back when I was looking, John Strohbeen told me that the difference is the new soft dome tweeter used in the Micro Walshe... | |
| What racks/amp stands do you own or have owned? None ever.The well built ones are generally too expensive because they are marketed to audiophiles.I use other types of solidly built furniture that targets the average consumer rather than audiophiles, like the big honkin' solid oak table that al... | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Had to revisit this classic thread to announce that it has happened.I've done some tweaks to my system since last visiting this thread which succeeded in getting me thinking and I believe my system has now achieved the lofty goal lamented in the s... | |
| "Pictures at an Exhibition" I listen to the Guillou/Dorian version the most these days.Great sound and deep pipe organ notes as noted. Artistically the performace is different enough to keep this old standard piece interesting.The ELP version is fun also.I think there may be... |