mapman
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| Solid state power + tube pre or visa versa? "High Fidelity" does not mean the results are pleasant, only accurate.A high fidelity image of Medusa is the ugliest of all. Though in a lot of modern depictions of Madusa, she is actually kinda hot! Must be photo shopped.... | |
| Sound stage back when stereo first hit, soundstage and imaging was a big selling point. You can find old lp releases on Mercury Living Presence and others that go into great detail in teh cover notes how the recordings were made and what was located where dur... | |
| Why does most new music suck? Most people danced to the music of Ellington. that's what made him popular. The genius came out over time.People like to dance to modern music as well, at least younger people. There is likely at least a couple genius out there as well making this... | |
| Why does most new music suck? "There are two kinds of music.....good, and bad"I agree with teh Duke on this. I find all music good enough to listen to at least once. More that I will give a second try based on the first than not. In the end the babies get separated from the ba... | |
| $510.00 for an Aluminum cover for the ARC Ref. 10? "Dorothy, you're not in Kansas anymore."Nope. More like New York, Paris, London....... | |
| Sound stage Its best to think of all recordings as having a soundstage. TWo channel recordings are considered stereo. The soundstage is artificial based on how the recording was miked and mastered but exists nonetheless. Some specialized or rare recordings us... | |
| Solid state power + tube pre or visa versa? In that there are many combos of tube and SS that can work out quite well, as OP has exprienced first hand and has been re-iterated here, the key to to decide where to start and just do it right from there. Some will build their system around a tu... | |
| Solid state power + tube pre or visa versa? I think he got good advice in this thread in response to his question that should help whatever way he might choose.. | |
| Solid state power + tube pre or visa versa? The op can seize any moment he chooses really. He's asking the right questions to help decide. | |
| What would you do? Its true unfortunately that if audiogon does anything to enforce ethical business practices its certainly not advertised or apparent in a any way. It's not been a problem for me personally so I don't know, other than I see no indications of much i... | |
| FM reception and your antenna What is a real FM antenna? The best will be mounted outdoors on a roof with a rotor. Not so common anymore. I've tried various fancy indoor antennas over the years, even been obsessed to pull in weaker more distant stations from time to time, and ... | |
| Sound stage Voices can come from anywhere not just dead center in a stereo recording. Same as anything else except with voices you might find a lead vocal dead center more often. Its all in how the recording was made and anything goes. Listen for where things... | |
| Virtual System updating problems. Anyone else? Looks like some nice enhancements/new features coming. I'd like to see the site become more inherently visual over time. No reason in this day and age that any product listing for sale (not just those "featured" should not show an image when brows... | |
| Solid state power + tube pre or visa versa? I am a tube pre-amp/Class D power amp fan myself and use that in my main system.I recently added a digital Class D integrated amp to my second system just to see how that might do in comparison and have been fairly pleased though the two sound sig... | |
| Solid state power + tube pre or visa versa? SS pre-amp with tube power amp can work on paper but probably least desirable and relatively uncommon. Most that want a tube power amp (higher maintenance and TCO) will also likely want a tube pre-amp (which does not add much if any downside at th... |