mapman
Responses from mapman
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? Shubert,I'll toss this one up to dispute the proposition that no rock musician/composer can be a genius.Ammonia Avenue.Shows that take the rock/pop veneer off of certain compositions and perhaps even many of the great classical composers over the ... | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings Found This wonderful tribute to Eric Woolfson of the Alan Parsons project on youtube. | |
| $1,500 upgrade budget/what would you do? Class D integrated a very good idea.Rogue Sphinx would be a great place to test out the modern high end audio amplification possibilities at an afforable price point, with its tube/Class D hybrid design. That's where its at for something that appl... | |
| Beatles Tribute Tv special.... It was a good time all around.Amazing teh impact of the BEatles over the years and that the music when played well can still sound both relevant and fresh!My whole family watched and even my 12 year old daughter enjoyed it.Imagine Dragons and Joe ... | |
| Amplifier Input Impedance Most solid state amps are designed to work with typical all SS pre-amps/systems, not higher out impedance tube pre-amps. I think its that simple.With ongoing popularity of tube gear in high end audio, some lines are designed with higher input imep... | |
| Bolero:why can't my system reproduce snare well? Are you sure it is a good recording? | |
| Is the Musical Fidelity Nu-vista M3 outdated If its in good condition and selling for the right price, no reason to look elsewhere that I can see. | |
| Hi-Fi Fuses - SNAKE OIL? - or something in it? Lacee,That's a reasonable perspective to have for these kinds of things I would say. :^) | |
| Moving to a dynamic speaker from a Electrostatic Czar,I have old Stax phones still that I use regularly and just added a set of Sennheiser Momentum phones, which deliver the expected Sennheiser sound out of a more portable and easy to drive package than some other Senns.Sennheiser and Stax are t... | |
| Best sounding integrated between $1500-$3000 "Sounded like the benefits of tube & ss without the negatives of either, IMO."There you go! | |
| Listening volume B_,You should be able to pop any member with a login an email via inbox (use "mypage" link at top of this page for example to get there. Its kind of a buried feature here on teh gon that I did not even realize existed until recently. It let's you ... | |
| Listening volume ZD,Perhaps, but I think it is also true that realistic volume levels suits music best. It is not so hard to get a system to play well at low volume for less cost. Playing loud well does not come as easy,especially in larger rooms, and will usually... | |
| CD Player Recommendations for Dynaudio speakers I use mhdt DACs with my Dynaudios and like this combo a lot. mhdt Constantine sounds fantastic. Paradisea with NOS Tung Sol Tube tweak is also top notch. GOtta say I prefer SS source over tube with Dynaudio. | |
| Should I trust movers with my equipment? avoid at all costs if possible. | |
| Moving to a dynamic speaker from a Electrostatic Moved from Maggie, Auditioned Quad ES. That was the sound I wanted but with better dynamics/slam, and at a lower price point. Ended up with OHM Walsh. |