mapman
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| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers Charles,I suspect there is a significant sized yet small minority out there that do venture into SETs or their like initially for various reasons, but on a limited budget like most first timers.FOr example Glow audio sells a very popular and styli... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers Tommy,I’ve heard all forms of demos at shows also, including very expensive high quality SETs using similar very large efficiency horns (with correspondingly stunning results).The best thought out and executed ones, SET or otherwise, always exceed... | |
| Digital media server/players for a Skeptic? FWIW,I use older Squeezebox and newer Plex systems to stream wirelessly from my laptop music server.dbpoweramp to rip and tag. Picard to autotag files after when neededThis is very cost effective and works and sounds great. Once you get used to it... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Its funny how fuse guys agree on pretty much everything.What if Hilary and Donald used these things? Putin and that guy in North Korea too! What a wonderful world it would be. :^) | |
| Up grading a MHDT Paradisea+ DAC My experience with original Paradisea when I owned one is it was a very musical DAC in general and was also very responsive to tube rolling. Stock GE tube was warm and lush but somewhat rolled off, not great for all kinds of listening. NOS Tung... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers "Sometimes you have to ignore well meaning warnings based on preconceived notions. "How someone thinks something sounds good or bad is a notion.Technical facts are facts however, not notions. You can choose to ignore them but chances are higher yo... | |
| Mellow speakers educeus,The sound you describe is common with most any speakers if your floors are suspended plywood or anything designed to have some give like that.If so relatively inexpensive isolating stands or pads solve the problem easily and make a huge d... | |
| Speakers in the 5-6K$ region & their components Gershman speakers were a new find that impressed the heck out of me at Capital Audiofest this year. | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers My point is that with more efficient speakers you would like it more, as the more efficient speakers can bring out more of that that amp can do right. That’s a very good way to put it and not just in this more extreme case (only a few good watts a... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers IMO nearly the entire endeavor of assembling an audio system is subjective I started out that way because I basically knew nothing about how this stuff really works. I even lost interest for years because my sound was not what I wanted and I ... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers Yes the main point is it is not "ideal" but yet another compromise with trade offs that some perhaps many might easily live with.A watt or two can also go much further when highest and lowest octaves are rolled off. That’s a reasonable trade-off a... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers Many lesser solutions have their charms. People choose or settle for them all the time. The merits can be argued subjectively only. Often that’s enough for many of similar mindset.Its just one of those things that some may go completely gaga over ... | |
| SET 45 Amp Driving Dynamic Speakers My approach is I want to be able to enjoy listening at any practical volume needed. The only way to accomplish this is to avoid clipping and distortion.One might be satisfied with lower volumes only but if speaker amp integration is not done well ... | |
| Tune of the Day Freddie Freeloader - Miles Davis | |
| A thin and elegant system? Yes the Bel Canto gear can solve that problem quite nicely.Corner placement of speakers can work quite well in many cases and is an additional way to free up space. |