mapman
Responses from mapman
| MBL 121 to full range speaker Yeah, I've heard mbls and can honestly say the OHMs are certainly competitive at a minimum and do a lot of the same things for a fraction of the cost. | |
| MIT cables and super tweeters "I don't trust network boxes in cables and never will.My very limited experience with MIT cable is the they have a bigger sonic signature then any other cable on the market."Trust your ears, that's all that matters.If two cables sound different th... | |
| How is it ? that a tuner smokes the table ??? Its probably just that you happen to prefer the sound of the tuner. | |
| Thinking of moving to a Headphone system, thoughts Bear,I have a pair of Stax sr-80 pro headphones. They are far from the best Stax phones out there though. They are not the ultimate in low end extension,, but are very enjoyable and non-fatiguing otherwiseI like electrostatic headphone designs lik... | |
| How do you train your ears? "The real thing unamplified should be the standard. "Of course the real thing should be the standard. Everything else is just a reproduction of the real thing.Some genres are amplified naturally though in live performance. That should be considere... | |
| 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 (<$200) or Squeezebox, a high speed internet connection, and a system. | |
| 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! |