mapman
Responses from mapman
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Queen and Adam Lambert last July. | |
| Building a top quality smaller system-what next? I did it with a Bel Canto C5i digital integrated amp. 60 w/ch size of a shoebox more or less and works very well with all speakers though 60 w/ch works best with more rather than less efficient speakers in general if your room is larger and thi... | |
| Tekton Double Impacts I'm wondering how many Tekton folks here are preferring them with tube amps and how many prefer them to other speakers with a beefier SS maybe even Class D amp? | |
| 2017 vs. 1990s - How far we have come Up several levels for me. | |
| Tekton Double Impacts The unique thing I like about Tekton in general is they buck the predominate trend in high end audio in recent years towards smaller, less efficient, and still increasingly expensive speakers.Size matters with speakers and drivers and so does effi... | |
| Why is good, deep bass so difficult? - Myths and their Busters 1) the lower the frequency the more work to be done to reproduce (exponentially). 2) room acoustics are a big factorDouble whammy. Bass is hardest and most costly to do well usually. Also poor muddy bass obscures higher midrange frequencies. Tripl... | |
| What are you listening to right now? Listened to an old cassette from college many years ago of Soft Machine I recently for the first time in years. Very groovy man! It’s digitized to my music server now. | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? MTV awards last week were God awful musically. My teenage daughter even agreed. The focus is increasingly more on spectacle to try to make the various celebrity clones more interesting. I guess that’s the only way to get any attention in the water... | |
| Current speaker threads are boring Billy Joel got it right. | |
| 3 headphone Dac Amps compared Thanks for the very well done review. | |
| Total cost of ownership - how to reduce it A good quality digital integrated amp from a reputable maker fed by a good quality streaming device (need not cost much) with moderately efficient speakers that it can drive well that fit well into your listening space is a good approach.An exampl... | |
| What are you listening to right now? "Wise After the Event" by Anthony Philips. | |
| R.I.P Glen Campbell I was missing Glen Campbell in my music library and corrected that a few weeks back converting some Glen vinyl I picked up at the thrift store not long ago. Always had a soft spot for this guy's music. | |
| Benchmark Dac3 I have no doubt both BEnchmark and Oppo make excellent sounding DAC products.Chord DACs are interesting to compare to others like BEnchmark and Oppo in terms of technical approach. | |
| Benchmark Dac3 All recent DACs do not sound the same for sure, however, there are many very excellent sounding ones these days for not very much to the point where in many cases any quality device with a DAC is no longer likely to be the weakest link in the play... |