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| Help with System Musicality Also, I think in line with Al's point, I always find crossover points in the midrange where most music occurs to work against musicality overall, unless very well designed and executed. Even then, it can only usually hurt and not help. Take a look... | |
| Help with System Musicality As I understand it, ribbon and/or folded ribbon tweeters also tend to be very directional and frequency response can vary widely with location. Worth taking note assuming to be true in this particular case. | |
| Review: Ohm Acoustics Ohm Walsh 100 Series 3 Speaker Its been awhile, but I still have these. These have recently settled into my second 2 channel A/V system. I have spent a fair amount of time recently working to get that setup up to snuff. Currently they run off the TAD Hibachi amps which deliver ... | |
| Anything as " fast" as SPECTRAL gear? "All I want to know, is how you made those smilies Mapman? "The emoticon keyboard on my Ipad.My controller apps for streaming on my gear run on that and other common mobile devices so I tend to spend a fair amount of time with those when listening. | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz ...forgot the smiley face...:^) | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz "How does one describe going from the greatest sound ever imagined to incredibly superior to that???"I think you said how earlier: acid trip maybe???? | |
| Importance of Amplifier versus Preamp? "A lot of people here and elsewhere have reported that digital transports often seem to make more of a difference than DACs."In the words of the famous secret agent/audiophile Maxwell Smart:" I find that hard to believe!"Not that people report it,... | |
| Higher resolution Jazz I also grab any audio fidelity recordings from that era whenever I come across one in good shape. Al Hirt anyone? | |
| Higher resolution Jazz Miles Davis milestones recording from mid late 50s comes to mind as a really good older monophonic jazz recording. | |
| Anything as " fast" as SPECTRAL gear? Many Krell and Classe amps I have heard over the years sounded particularly "fast" to me. Don't know their slew rates. I tend to associate fast sound ie a combo of high slew rate and matching ability of speaker transducer to respond accordingly wi... | |
| Anything as " fast" as SPECTRAL gear? Bifwynne, yes you got that all right. I think. Damping is overkill at some point. Exactly at what point that is is somewhat debatable and would vary case by case I suspect. There is a correlation between damping and speaker control but not a hard ... | |
| Help with System Musicality Tubes is as easy a short answer as any. 👏👏👏 | |
| Higher resolution Jazz I was going to pitch concord jazz label as well. 👍👍👍 | |
| Help with speaker cable under $500 for new system "Going byengineering principles would make us to buy only a lamp cordfrom Home Depot. "Is that so bad? There are many other effective ways to tweak the sound. I've put conventional stranded 12 gauge speaker wire into the mix with my gear on occasi... | |
| Higher resolution Jazz Among others, I have the Duke Ellington on Columbia Records Box Set with recordings on it from the 20's through 60's I believe.THe sound quality of some of the older mono tracks in this set in particular astounds me. It made me realize that there ... |