mapman
Responses from mapman
| Why do some cd's have no bass I'll assume solo recordings featuring Piccolo and Female Voice might get a free pass for having no bass? | |
| Why do some cd's have no bass Why do some recording artists have no musical talent but lots of bass? | |
| What are your favorite speaker finishes? Bubinga rules. | |
| Jazz for aficionados I am not a big Bitches Brew fan like many are and do not like the turn Miles Davis' music and a lot of Jazz took after that although I think things have gotten better again since. Not to say BB was not good and has a lot to offer jazz-wise. Just t... | |
| Who is your overall favorite guitarist? Not real familiar with him but some old Earl Hooker on Sun Records stuff just played. Hot stuff!!! | |
| What better to power my 82db Magico Q5 BTW the sound of my system these days on all my speakers running off teh Class D Bel Canto ref1000m monoblocksreminds me a lot of teh sound I heard a few years back for reference with Magico Mini II driven by VAC amps and DCS digital source in a s... | |
| Fake Audiophiles Czar email me with the name and address of your shop in NYC. I would like to stop by there next time I am in the area, usually once or twice a year or so. We always do a lot of walking in various neighborhoods to soak in teh NYC ambience and I alw... | |
| What better to power my 82db Magico Q5 If it were me, if size, weight, power consumption or overall cost of ownership over time are factors at all, I'd be looking for a Class D amp that can double down to 4 and 2 ohms best. There may be a general correlation between this and current de... | |
| Class D at low volume My only caveat in recommending Class D amps over others currently might be in regards to the very highest frequencies, tne ones over 12Khz or so that we perceive as "air" in teh sound. I am 50+ and used to hear fine up to 20khz but now I am more l... | |
| What are your favorite speaker finishes? I like the very high gloss finishes like they put on some affordable Quads in recent years and that one often sees on the real expensive stuff. | |
| Class D at low volume Efficiency done well is always a good thing for sound quality I would say, including at lower volumes. Class D amps are the modern way to introduce some efficiency into a system with out the size bulk and other idiosyncrasies that might go with fu... | |
| Thoughts on the Signal Path You can match gear well and do well without an active pre-amp if you know what your doing but I think it gets harder to get the same sound out that you want from multiple different sounding sources without one. Active pre-amps are the great equali... | |
| Thoughts on the Signal Path LEngth/complexity of signal path alone means nothing. I wouldn't spend any time worrying about it. Its the quality of what comes in and what is done with it along the way to its destination (in conjunction with the destination itself) that matters... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? ...and they don't even sell ohms on Amazon. 😉 | |
| Woofer placement near floor-benefits? Ptss,I heard YG Anat at a show a few years back. Very nice. They seems to do a lot of things well. |