mapman
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| What Are You Listening To Right Now?What is the Source? Some Muzak version of Petite Fleur on one of those Readers Digest compilations. Nice recordings here and this one has a very nice Hammond organ lead with harpsichord and bass backbeat. | |
| Equipment Rack No it was for you Gk. 👏 Saves you having to give yourself one. My words of wisdom for today is anyone who spends time worrying about how seismic waves will affect their hifi, Walkman or whatever one listens to probably has bigger issues to address... | |
| Equipment Rack That’s a very practical policy actually since nobody who spends time discussing anything of consequence with Gk is likely to buy his wares though his explanations must have surely made his 4th grade science teachers head spin. Saves everyone a l... | |
| What makes an amp sound more direct ? Atmasphere, I heard your setup with the large Classic Audio horn loaded speakers and United Home Audio in the larger ballroom at Capital Audiofest a few weeks back. A RTR tape of the Beatles White Album was playing.It was a treat in that larger de... | |
| What makes an amp sound more direct ? From my experience and reports I read from others, it does seem that use of negative feedback typically results in a more laid back presentation than otherwise. That would seem to infer a different tonality between the two in general. So avoiding ... | |
| What makes an amp sound more direct ? I'm not sure its possible to associate "directness" inherently with any electronics. Speakers and room acoustics would seem to be the main factors. Some speakers are more directional than others ie more sound firing directly at you versus othe... | |
| Another 'Which Amp' Question You could take a look at the Bel Canto c5i integrated amp. Might be more than you are looking for but has everything one would need for a top performing modern system in one box about the size of a shoebox for about the cost of most any decent q... | |
| Atmasphere amps trustable? Both times I have heard Atmasphere amps at shows, they were used with very large, very expensive high efficiency speakers from Classic Audio Reproductions.First time in a small hotel room where the whole system was just a lot of overkill, more rec... | |
| Atmasphere amps trustable? There are many "retro" looking tube amplifiers out there these days. I believe Atmasphere has been around longer than most and is a trend setter in that regard. Few still are OTLs though it seems. OTL tube amps are definitely a rarer breed but hav... | |
| Corner Placement Wolf were I in a yurt or dome, chances are I would opt to listen exclusively with headphones which by chance are also often round. | |
| Atmasphere amps trustable? If by "weird" what the OP means is different, then I would say that’s a fair assessment in that my understanding is the high output impedance of an OTL amp (with no negative feedback employed either by design in the case of Atmasphere amps as I un... | |
| Dennis Had Inspire SET with KEF LS50s On paper a full range SET amp is not a good technical match for optimal performance with most any (inefficient) smaller speaker with extended bass. Probably one of the biggest mismatches possible in general.But that does not mean it might not soun... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Creating a quality speaker for home use is a problem that has been solved thousands of different ways by many over the years.Which solutions solves it best is more a matter of opinion than fact. There are many viable candidates for that using va... | |
| Ice Amp 125ASX2 I have two Icepower based amps. I have never heard an Icepower amp that could be described as "warm" sounding though I do use an ARC tube-preamp with one and that does add just a nice touch. My second is a digital integrated amp with more recent I... | |
| Any Bluetooth wireless speakers that you like? Are there any good quality Bluetooth stereo speakers not housed in the same box? In other words a physical pair of speakers that integrate together, one left and one right? |