mapman
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| THE BLACK BY BEL CANTO- NEW REFERENCE I'll be more interested in something similar to the compact ref1000m monoblocks I currently have that I might also be able to afford using latest Class D technology when the time comes. This already has more than enough muscle for pretty much anyo... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Sony is a big company that like most can no longer operate in a vacuum and be successful. It will be interesting to see how this works out. There is a risk with buying any vendor's proprietary hardware these days. The long term winners that will b... | |
| Should I upgrade power cord for my preamp? Power cord can make a difference with digital sources and pre-amp as well but for different reasons. Power amp is mostly about current delivery ability. Pre-amp is more about more control of noise. Results can be better clarity, resolution, detail... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners I suspect part of the problem is Sony's size and I suspect having to deal with an external service provider is a relatively new thing for them. Hopefully just some bumps along the road that will get squared away soon. If I were Sony, I would ackno... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners A service outage of that duration is certainly not a normal thing. Do notmean to insinuate that is user error. | |
| Voice and instrument image bunched in the middle?? Of course this kind of thing is very dependent on how material is recorded and will vary widely from recording to recording. Hopefully you have a frame of reference for how the recordings you are testing with should sound? If not, getting the righ... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners " I wouldn't know how to build a business plan around an assumption that 90% of my customers are idiots. How is that for a company brand."I doubt the business plan is quite that extreme, but Apple is the perfect model for how to sell technology to... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Sounds like a pretty par for the course kind of experience for computer audio.There is a learning curve up front no matter which device or technology still these days it seems. Good things come to those with some determination though. Once you get... | |
| Hi, new here. out of loop long time. where we at? I like the looks of the little JBL home monitor series horn loaded monitor speakers that I have seen on AMazon for just a few hundred $$s. Would love to give those a shot someday. | |
| BANG for the BUCK One key to getting "bang for the buck" is to move forward in small, carefully planned increments. Look for things that appear to add clear value towards achieving your goals for reasonable marginal cost. Worst thing to do is to just throw money at... | |
| combination tube amp and ss preamp? Its true. One's relationship with their tube amp has ample opportunity to grow. They are relatively needy compared to SS amps that for the most part just sit there and continue to do their thing, FBOFW. :^) | |
| Zu audio speakers for chamber music and jazz? The Zus I have heard off SET amps that ZU seems to like to demo with are very good with most kinds of music except rock and larger scale classical or jazz music that requires more muscle. The right amp with a little more drive would probably remed... | |
| BANG for the BUCK What Doug said.Price is easily quantified. Performance......not so easily. Its highly subjective. So there you go.FWIW, I put my current rig with the big OHM F5 speakers in place with the goal of no compromise in performance but keeping budget to ... | |
| amplifier for large advents? The amps one already have sitting in the attic are definitely the right ones to try! :^) | |
| Magico S1 vs YG Carmels I think I heard the same demo as Larryi at Capital Audiofest several years back. I'm pretty sure a different model floor standing Magico (S5 possibly?) were involvedThe two sounded more similar to me than different with the vocal jazz recordings d... |