mapman
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| Room Size - Front Port vs Rear Port Speakers Port type is not the thing to base the decision. All kinds might work well in a small room like that.With that amp in a room that size, I'd look no further than a pair of OHM 1000s or MicroWalsh speakers. They are bottom ported and fitted to a roo... | |
| U-Discover Mag Lists The 50 Greatest Jazz Albums I find it's much harder to find bad jazz recordings than good ones. Picking the best ones is nearly impossible. The most influential or best known, not so hard. Most will have been around for awhile. But I could make an argument for so many jazz r... | |
| ARC Quality Issues Ref75 Ref5SE Ref10 "To my ears, current ARCs are SOTA regardless of price."Agree. | |
| Jazz for aficionados I prefer early Sinatra as groggy describes as well. And yes dean Martin is the one of that bunch that most often makes me smile. | |
| What is the answer? 🙏 | |
| Preamp w/ Single Line Input. But I have DAC and CDP Ps I'll be interested in how the Schitt sys works out. 🎶 | |
| Can you recommend a simple Tube pre amp? Yes price and what makes it so "different" from other atmosphere products please. Thanks. ✌️ | |
| Jazz for aficionados Frank was cooler than poor Mel. Just received my best of torme on concord CDs. Less than $5 with shipping from Seattle goodwill via Amazon and arrived in less than a week. Nice. Looking forward to it. | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz Soon dd will be listening to his wires solo. Since that's all we hear about should we assume the rest does not matter? 😴 | |
| Speaker Stands Question Assuming good build quality. The biggest difference will be with where the speaker is located and oriented vertically and also whether the stands couple to the floor acoustically or are isolated. Best choice will vary case by case room by room and... | |
| REFERENCE 3 A SPEAKERS Triangles have top notch soundstage when set up well for that but may not always depending, like most good imaging speakers. Cometes go for significantly less than decapos, an excellent value. Things get more crowded as prices go up. My triangles ... | |
| Please Help me decide what to do I heard master and dynamic phones the other day at stereo exchange in nyc for the first time of a nice Rogers set. Nice product that I had not heard of. I've auditioned many phones recently and those were worth a second glance someday. | |
| What's the greatest bargain in SET these days? Reb. How many more steps?Definitely reminds me of my electronic kit building days as a kid except this one costs way more and will sound much better than anything I've ever done. Still have all the tools though so with those and your journal one w... | |
| Can you recommend a simple Tube pre amp? Nice looking product. | |
| What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker? Having an amp more than up to the task helps with loud music. Avoiding any clipping at any time is always a good strategy. |