mapman
Responses from mapman
| Fast forward 25 years, what will audio be like? "Under circumstances like that, audio will be an impossible luxury. "High end audio is already a luxury.Good sound is more available to more today than ever before. It starts with an ipod and earbuds. IT gets better from there as needed. A compute... | |
| musical fidelity m3cd,m3i,focal 726v "is it a good pairing or i can do better?"Yes and yes.One can always do better, no matter what. But it takes time and effort usually.First step is to know what your "reference sound" is. Go to live events with good sound setup/acoustics, or attend... | |
| Pre-Amp for Class D Amp I use Audio Research sp16 with my Bel Canto REf 1000m amps and can easily recommend it for top notch sound.REf1000m amps specifically have high 100kohm unbalanced (higher balanced) input impedance which makes them very compatible with tube pre-amp... | |
| Speaker recommendations for new venture "The key to high quality sound in a big room, like your 24 x90 foot room, is speakers that have well-controlledradiation patterns and smooth off-axis frequency response. "No doubt. | |
| What direction should Hi Fi tune fuse be installed "But many hear significant differences in all manner of parts dealing with this process. So there must be something more than your old dismissive comment. "Ok, so can someone who hears it answer the question clearly then?You have a 50/50 chance of... | |
| Fast forward 25 years, what will audio be like? Better sound more readily available, more music than ever to listen to. :-)Same thing 50, 100, 200 years, in the year 2525..."if man is still alive". :-( | |
| What do you void listening? Full Metal Jacket is my favorite Vietnam War movie. | |
| What do you void listening? I relate to the Gump character in many ways.I was not athletic and bullied somewhat for it as a youth.I lived in Alabama for a few years.I have been known to run a lot for no good reason.Jenny reminds me of an old girlfriend in many ways.I am a go... | |
| What do you void listening? "To me it just said ignorance is more honored in the USA thananywhere else"Ignorance might be tolerated here more perhaps but surely is not "honored" by most. Two different things.Gump was not "intelligent" apparently, but seemed to have a nebulou... | |
| Best Rock Album of 2014 Psykerion.Late 2013 FWIW. | |
| What do you void listening? Schubert,If there are any Hollywood producer's reading, for what its worth I would go see a movie based on your life story and how classical music affected it. Imagine the royalties!!!! If done well, it would register strongly with many folk out t... | |
| Femto clocks ,every unit should have one I have been ripping CDs to server and playing from there exclusively for the last few years.Have not figured out a good way to doctor up the disk storage to date though. I'll leave that to those better suited to the task like GEoff and wait for th... | |
| KEF LS50 Smaller monitors in general often tend to do best on shorter stands where floor can reinforce bass a tad more than otherwise.I've heard the KEFs. I would tend towards using shorter stands in all but perhaps the smallest rooms. | |
| What are your TWO favorite Symphonic Recordings? I have an even more favorite recording of Mahler 3rd by the Oslo Philharmonic I recorded off of NPR many years ago (the first I had ever heard) to VHS hifi tape, but not sure if that is commercially available. | |
| Not asking the best.... "The Pretenders', My City Was Gone."That's a good one! |