mapman
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| Folk/Rock choices that are well recorded for bobbi by chad Mitchell trio | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz "@mapman go use your chicken wire and play with your etch-a-sketch. Grown folks are talking!"If you say so. | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz It's an open forum. Best to just enjoy things in private if people's responses are bothersome. The same as one would normally do for most things. | |
| Music and politics Hmm why did I do That? Good question. I don't have a good answer. The Donald must be getting to me. 🙈 | |
| Classic Rock Quiz That was hard. Somehow I managed a 70%. | |
| Let's try this a different way then Agree with Duke. If you like the Maggie bipolar planar sound, having distance to both front and rear walls is the key for optimal results. Distance to side walls matters much less. The best Maggie setups I have heard have the speakers 1/3 the dept... | |
| Dynaudio or Ohm? No doubt adding a powered sub or two done well almost always ups the ante as mentioned.I used to run a large M&K sub with my smaller 100s that are somewhat undersized for the open concept room they are in and liked the results. The sub went up... | |
| It Was 40 Years Ago Today... "And the world saw the future of Rock & Roll, and his name was Bruce Springsteen."Its name turned out to be Nickelback actually. :^( | |
| Dynaudio or Ohm? High current SS amplification is key to best bass with the OHMs.Marty, correct me if wrong please, but you use tube amplification with your OHM/sub setup. That's another good way to go but most tube amps will not cut with the OHMs alone for best b... | |
| Dynaudio or Ohm? Both of my OHMs (100S3 and F5) are older refurbed cabinets with no plinth underneath. Floor interactions are not unqiue to bottom ported OHMS butsomething to take into account.I use Auralex Subdude isolation platforms under my 100s to manage floor... | |
| Pink Floyd LPs If you are a pink Floyd fan and have never heard Nektar go fix that right now. | |
| Need integrated amp with built-in USB DAC I'm liking the bel canto c5i I recently acquired. It does it it all very well in a compact and reasonably affordable package that's hard to beat unless one yearns for the warmth of tubes perhaps. | |
| Hear sibilance on Krall, Famous Blue, D. Fagen? Sibilence usually comes into play most naturally with the letter S in vocals. Depending on amounts and frequency of occurrence could be natural or a form of distortion somewhere in the recording and or playback chain. | |
| Hear sibilance on Krall, Famous Blue, D. Fagen? If subtle and only occurs in 2-3 recordings out of many, its most likely some artifact of the recording, either natural in the voices recorded and/or artificial due to defects or dirt on the record or CD. Most commercial recordings are not perfect... | |
| wattage it always depends.in this case it depends on how loud you need to go with various recordings and assuming speakers are capable of doing it in your room without strain or compressing.Generalizations may apply but generalizations seldom yield except... |