mapman
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| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world The speakers I regularly rotate are:KEF LS50s, B&W 801 Matrix S2s, Ologe 5s, Magnepan LRS and Harbeth SHL5+40th Anniversaries. @hleeid,That’s a nice collection of speakers you are rotating.What determines which ones get played?I have ls50s.... | |
| What is missing here? I agree a good review covers what is needed to get best performance from any piece of gear especially those with limitations like low power amps or inefficient speakers.Then again quality of reviews varies widely. You would hope that the premier p... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world is it safe to say we all hate to walk into a hifi store and have the salesman tell us what we should buy or do without even listening to what our needs are and acting accordingly? The ones who do listen and act accordingly are the good ones.Maybe ... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Yup, the more subs the merrier. I have 1 system with 0 (not needed speakers are essentially full range and no significant bass issues in the room) and one system with one sub. Ho ho ho!Why not 10? Get on it DBA pioneers! | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Yes the debate has nothing to do with if it works or not. . | |
| seeking ‘HORN’ ideas apart from Klipshc Lascalla Avantegarde Zero is on my list of speakers I want to hear someday. | |
| seeking ‘HORN’ ideas apart from Klipshc Lascalla Definitely check out Volti. | |
| Update on Audiogon Member Almarg “There’s a Yiddish word, seychel ....... It means to pursue knowledge and to leave the world a better place than when you entered it….” | |
| the sound of massed violins in classical orchestral recordings I think it went away in my system several years back when I upgraded preamps from old Carver to new Audio Research which was a big jump in sound quality overall. | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Check out a sub like this Klipsch I use with KEF ls50’s: https://www.klipsch.com/products/sw-308-subwoofer Forward firing active driver + two passive radiators one firing left and one firing right. That provides some bass distribution benefits sim... | |
| Help me understand "the swarm" in the broader audiophile world Bass becomes more directional at higher frequencies so if sub is covering higher bass frequencies there is advantage to two subs located near speakers for better stereo imaging same as if teh woofers in the main were covering those. Different re... | |
| Sub Question. One higher quality sub or two lesser quality? (Rythmik vs HSU) @cleeds sp 16 may or may not be exception. As I indicated I am not merging output with a Y connector with the ARC as I mistakenly indicated initially so in fact I have not encountered that scenario.I suppose one would know for sure pretty quickly ... | |
| Sub Question. One higher quality sub or two lesser quality? (Rythmik vs HSU) @cleeds The Audio Research SP16 has two stereo main outputs. One goes to main amps which remains in stereo and the other to the sub. So that is not an issue.I’ve learned a lot from Duke (audiokinesis) here over the years in regards to acoustics an... | |
| Sub Question. One higher quality sub or two lesser quality? (Rythmik vs HSU) Starting with one to get that right first makes a lot of sense. That’s the engineer in me speaking. I have a single powered sub setup using a Klipsch SW 308 with a pair of kef ls50s. Connection is line out from Audio Research sp16 preamp to sub us... | |
| Turntable choices https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/493608538/love-the-worlds-first-intelligent-turntableStumbled on this. Don’t know anything more about it but interesting. |