mapman
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| New Tekton Pendragons On The Way Depending on room acoustics, placement and setup of speakers is critical to having the best results including sound stage depth.In general, speakers like the tektons that emit all sound via the front will likely sound better closer to front wall t... | |
| What's with the short speaker stands? I'm interested to hear how others make out at home with the Isoacoustics especially used as floor stands.Keep in mind that they come in several sizes and provide some info for which fit various popular speaker models best so be sure to take a look... | |
| Anyone love TIDAL lossless streaming like I do? I don't have it but am sure I would love it. | |
| What's with the short speaker stands? These are the isoacoustics stands I usedhttp://www.amazon.com/IsoAcoustics-1004209-ISO-L8R155-Medium-Pair/dp/B008GOP79GA key attribute of these is they isolate the speakers from their foundation i.e. Floor shelf or desk rather than couple them. Th... | |
| What's with the short speaker stands? Image height might be different or not. Room acoustics can still result in a large soundstage. At least that is what I have found in the sunroom, which is very lively with windows on three sides, vaulted ceiling and tile flooring over suspended pl... | |
| Snobbiest audio websites The only thing I would find interesting about a $14K anything is if someone thought it sounded bad. Especially a wire.I do find beneficial innovative new features interesting."Sounds really good" is passe. Most of us have been there, done that and... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Isn't $15-$20K still DCS money these days? If so, DCS is the only thing I have heard that I thought maybe dropping that much on if I could. And even that is a big "might". I've heard a lot of good digital on very good systems since I last sampled ... | |
| Directional cables - what does that really mean? Some cables have a gadget, like MIT network boxes, at one end versus another. That would at least seem to have some concrete basis for saying the two ends are functionally different and hence might produce different results one way versus the othe... | |
| Best Female Vocalists Ballads I am historically not a big Sinead O Conner fan but gotta say I always found her interesting and am almost always pleasantly surprised when I hear her stuff.Same true for Milla Jojovich. "The Divine Comedy" is quite good. She did this when still q... | |
| Anyone Using Harbeths with Grilles off? Harbeths are way cooler with grills off.Just MHO. | |
| High value, high efficiency speakers for SET amps A famous audiophile once said:"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor"...wait that wasn't an audiophile who said that first. :^)He also said no coveting or graven images.Couldn't have been an audiophile. | |
| Tubes and their problems We all have problems. Tubes have their fair share. They must be good though or else nobody in their right mind would tolerate them. Same goes for records. One of my problems is I wish I had fewer tubes and records. But I want things to sound reall... | |
| What's with the short speaker stands? Low stands can have benefits.Locating closer to floor usually helps bass response.Also, especially in smaller rooms, locating closer to floor with a slight upward tilt can improve sound stage and imaging by delaying and modifying reflections somew... | |
| NOS DAC's without any digital filtering? I find its getting harder to find a bad sounding DAC these days. At Walmart maybe. The sound from those in even decent quality commercial devices, like those from Apple, is so much better than what was around in years past. I find the differences ... | |
| Since solder is such a poor conductor, why use it? Even better yet...forget welding which is so old school to start with, form the entire circuit end to end and with no wires and with no connections to solder. I bet someone somewhere is doing this already to some extent but they have way more mone... |