mapman
Responses from mapman
| Class D for a Tube Lover I’ve had two icepower amps and would not call them either warm or syrupy. | |
| AGD Audion GaN Class D In The House What’s with the tube looking thing on the top? | |
| Stereophile's 2021 products of the year High efficiency speakers limit your choice of speakers. Plus many high efficiency speakers have very limited bass. That’s how they achieve high efficiency. So there is more to it than that. Unless you must have high efficiency speakers to enab... | |
| Finally found a space for the speakers I’ve been storing... and I don’t love them any more Yes switch amps as a test to help get a handle on what you are hearing from what. | |
| What would be your favorite 3 tracks that demonstrate how great your system sounds? Yes I did hear the holographic synth and synthesized bass towards the end of Lucky Man even on the little Vanatoos. Nice recording overall. 8-9 out of ten there I’d reckon as pop/rock recordings go. I’ll give it a spin on my bigger stuff when I ge... | |
| Miracles in Audio, by luck, by good choices,by design or by tweaking... Of course you have to listen. The trick is knowing what to choose that you will listen to. | |
| What would be your favorite 3 tracks that demonstrate how great your system sounds? Lucky man?ok playing it now. Only on little Vanatoos. Let’s see... | |
| About the importance of the room vs the electronics You don’t say? Who’d a thunk it! | |
| What do you have on order RIGHT NOW. A 21st century schizoid man face mask that was shipped from China to the wrong state. | |
| Brainstorm Thursday. Are we approaching the Audiophile Singularity? Yup soon it will be like HD TVs. Except some will find all the detail and contrast irritating. Then digital signal processing options will take care of that as well. A little blur here, some softness there, some extra nice harmonics or contrast/dy... | |
| Ready, set, comment! Speaker cables don’t make a difference? Everything makes a difference. It’s just a matter of how much and if it matters or not. Some things matter way way less than others. Speaker wires fall into that category IMHO compared to all the other usual suspects for delivering good sound.That... | |
| Brainstorm Thursday. Are we approaching the Audiophile Singularity? Yes we are in the sense that vanilla is the most popular flavor, but that doesn't mean there is no room for others. Variety is the spice of life. I prefer to leave it to the recording and room to provide my listening variety, not so much the g... | |
| Interesting Video from Upscale Audio Legally deaf, yet he can hear differences between cables and things- apparently better than a number of audiophiles. Another strike against poor defenseless "audiophiles". One more and they’re out!!! Who will take their place? Cockroaches perhaps?... | |
| Is the appeal to euphonic distortion learned? @atmasphere I think a lot of people will be looking forward to that! I will hang on to my current amps at least a bit longer then....If the Class D amps don’t turn out to be greener than the average tube amp, that would be something! | |
| Hoping for a recommendation for stereo amp around $1500 or less ($2k max) Yes I would not expect those Underwood Wyred specials to last long. |