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| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Bass will ALWAYS be the achilles heel of a low power amp (and/or smaller speakers, especially more efficient ones in genral). Powered subs let you address the issue once and for all without having to change the rest. Its the most practical solutio... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Those Coincidents are small and likely not extended in the bass, which is a good thing for a SET with small speakers. It still might be enough for a small room, depending on expectations. If expectations are to have it all, you could very well end... | |
| Does HiRez really sound better? Hirez has more potential to sound better but the dudes who put together the CD format in ancient times did a pretty good job. It can be beat but most won't care or be able to tell. | |
| Kanye West - Grammy comment, re Beck The pointthere appears to be a higher res 24 /96 file was resampled from a lower resolution CD quality one. I'm sure that happens all the time in order to sell high res files. Says nothing about the original CD res file used as the source. Its the... | |
| Kanye West - Grammy comment, re Beck I would not give anyone who pulls stunts like that too much credit. I'd yank the awards he won just for being a self indulgent horses arse and having poor taste in women accordingly. | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Charles, I agree with you 100%. I am happy for everyone who enjoys what they are doing.On the other hand, that alone does little to help someone work through their issues. That requires open discussion and not being afraid to make suggestions in g... | |
| Where should I spend my $2000? Spend it at Mapman's Hifi Audio Super Shop, opening soon!!!I will have some very nice custom made wires, magnets and special fuses that you will have to hear to believe. That should take care of the $2000 no problem. ;^) | |
| Kanye West - Grammy comment, re Beck BTW, I was shocked that Beck won that one. i have not heard that particular album yet but have other older BEck albums. Like his music or not, and I am somewhat ambivalent still on the matter, one cannot deny that he is one of the few these days s... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Tbg, I appreciate that.Everyone has to start someone and fulfill their own needs.We should encourage people to not be afraid to try out the waters always as best they can, not scaring them away with talk about how hard or expensive it is. Nor by c... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Reb,I didn't say it clearly but what what I meant is what is emphasized more or less in specific recordings. Specific things like you mention that you hear now and did not before, or vice versa.The grip on the bass thing does not surprise me and i... | |
| What's your latest album purchase? When he does it, his voice does not sound real, more unreal or synthesized, but I am pretty sure that it is just him. I also have his Classic Concert live recording from Carnegie Hall on Concord jazz label and it is on display there live. | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? I hope this thread does not become yet another good example of why more people don't love audio....... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Madona sounds really good on my $90 high quality table radio fed from my computer at work. In mono of course. :^}Tbg, my system comes in arounfd $10K or so in terms of what I actually paid, a lot more at list price. It does it pretty good! I've be... | |
| Building the Audio Note Kit 1 SET amp... Reb,One thing worth noting is that often when a significant change is made we focus on what we hear that we did not before. how about what we heard before that we no longer hear? I suspect that once one hits a certain level of sound performance th... | |
| Kanye West - Grammy comment, re Beck He's a bigger diva than his wife basically. |