mapman
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| Need rec on $500 preamp If you are considering the Benchmark DAC, maybe just consider the newer Benchmark DAC Preamp. This has digital and analog input capabilities and might have everything you need for ~$1500 or so, but the cost is marginal compared to just the Benchma... | |
| Holographic imaging "Perhaps it'd be best to just sell the H-Cat without trying to attribute it's effectiveness to an unverifiable theory..."Ignorance is bliss if it sounds good. | |
| What is your favorite type of tweeter? I'd lean towards Walsh tweeters though there are not many speakers arounf today using it.My first good speakers had heil tweeters. Damn things seemed to fry easily.Otherwise, I like tweets with good dispersion in general, like a good soft dome. | |
| Holographic imaging This holography stuff is starting to scare me.I think I'll just go 2-d. | |
| My head hurts.... I just started a music server by enabling media sharing in Windows Media Player in Vista on a laptop. IT works very nicely. The Windows Media Player interface for ripping CDs to disk is very fast . I ripped the 5 CD Ken Burns JAzz CD set yesterday... | |
| My head hurts.... "Begin with what you have now. it might surprise you what can be done with it."Absolutely. try what you have before convincing yourself it ain't any good. You might be surprised.You can and with the rate at which this technology is evolving, proba... | |
| Amp vs preamp question Douglas Schroeder has a good point.You want to be sure what you buy synergizes well. If you are not sure what will, an integrated would be a safe bet. Just make sure the amp can drive the speakers adequately.Another option is trial and error. Buy ... | |
| Small and Excellent Speakers Ohm 100 series 3 or Micro Walsh. The Walsh style drivers provide a large surface radiating area in a very small footprint and produce a big sound in accordance that is more like much larger speaks but in a smaller package.Midrange/vocals are fanta... | |
| Amp vs preamp question I'm not a Thiel guru, but it sounds like tube amps are not a good match to the Thiels due to difficult load.You might be better off going SS on the amp and tubes on the pre-amp, if that's the sound you like. The SS amp should double power to 4 and... | |
| Next up... new speakers... Ohm 200, 300 or Walsh 5 series 3 would do the trick. Nothing I know of near the price can "energize the room" better.www.ohmspeakers.com | |
| Holographic imaging Roger,I understand your descriptions of Doppler effect in regards to sound waves propagating outside of the amp, nothing new there, but not how the same thing occurs in the electrical domain within the amp.Atmasphere's questions seem relevant.Wiki... | |
| Holographic imaging "You would agree that the act of moving away from a sound source makes the frequency/pitch appear lower?"No doubt.I need to think about the volume knob analogy some more though since that would seem more relevant. I'm thinking Roger paul is right ... | |
| Holographic imaging By the way, I agree with Tvad.As long you like what you hear, it really doesn't matter what other people think is best.If you think flat is more real, then more power to you.Personally, I'd rather deceive myself into thinking I can do better since... | |
| Holographic imaging "Not that "holographic" necessarily equates to truth either, but I can't see how "flat" could be closer to the real truth either."Actually I can think of a way. That would be assuming "flat" refers to a projection of the original 3-D sound onto a ... | |
| Holographic imaging "then an amplifier should sound "flat", because that is closer to the truth"You lost me on this. Why do you think "flat" is closer to "the truth"? What "truth" are you referring to? Musicians perform and sound waves propagate in 3 dimensions last ... |