mapman
Responses from mapman
| Tuning Collars on speaker cables - concept and any good? Yes some people love to play with new audio toys, especially fancy or esoteric expensive ones and strain to hear or convince themselves of some meaningful difference so lots of merit there | |
| Is there such a thing as too much power? If you don’t have enough power you clip. When you clip good watts go bad no matter how awesome they were to start with. Clipping is hifi public enemy #1 to avoid at all costs. Wats in reserve are your insurance policy. Make your amp work too ha... | |
| I think it’s completely overwhelming... Keep it simple, stick to basics, stay with products and companies with a proven track record, and it will be OK. This ain’t rocket science. | |
| Perfect Path Total Contact no longer? BE alert for the campaign of confusion that we will be subjected to continuously until November in order to distract from facts. Nothing negative or harmful to fearless leader’s image will ever be admitted to or responsibility taken by the current... | |
| power cord directionality Who knows. Try it and see if you must. | |
| Heresy IVs I would speculate that since the 4s go deeper in the bass than 3s then amps may run out of gas sooner and they may not be as good in some ways as 3s with lower powered amps. Low powered tube amps might soft clip sooner. It’s basic physics that you... | |
| Why no interest in reel to reel if you're looking for the ultimate sound? Less practical now than it ever was. | |
| It happened again tonight The original vinyl release of “The Wall” is a very good recording, one of the best rock recordings of its time. I sold a lot of hifi gear with that recording. “Aja” by Steely Dan another. Jeff Wayne’s “War of the Worlds” recording another personal... | |
| Vibrating speakers As popularized in song not all vibrations are bad. Some are good. Some are really good.😉 | |
| It happened again tonight I’ve learned to not accept freebies here from strangers for the most part because it usually turns into a rat trap if you are not smitten and talk about it. It’s also usually the most nebulous tweak products looking to gain a following and you end... | |
| The Forest for the Trees I’m a techie but only care about hifi gear because I spend many hours listening to music. | |
| It happened again tonight Drawing rational conclusions is an acquired skill. Ideology is a much easier way. | |
| It happened again tonight Yes Suzanne Summers can do wonders for one's hifi. | |
| Has anyone else auditioned something that really was terrible? You listen to a system, including the room and its acoustics, not individual components.It’s always possible a particular unit is defective and that should be ruled out first, but when things sound really bad most often it is because the component... | |
| Receiver working as pre-amp, TURNS OFF, whenever Second Zone/Speaker B goes loud Yes running two pair of speakers from most 2 channel amps concurrently puts the two in the circuit in parallel which lowers the impedance and that will make the amp tap out sooner. You might consider trying an external speaker switch. Good ones ha... |