mapman
Responses from mapman
| Advent Model 300 tuner/receiver Anyone compared Advent 300 to any good modern pre-amps? | |
| Review: JBL Studio 530 Monitor Thx for the review, those jbls have been on my radar screen since I first stumbled across them on amazon, | |
| Which component is most responsible? Yes, reasonably clean power however achieved is a must for this as well. | |
| Which component is most responsible? Yes, you need a good choral recording recorded a certain way to even have a chance, so make sure that is in place first, otherwise you will spin your wheels.Here's a good recording to try off the cuff:Mitch MillerHere's another:MTC | |
| Which one box Headphone AMP/DAC combo? YEs, BEnchmark hard to argue with. | |
| Which component is most responsible? Speaker setup and room acoustics mostly.Assumption is rest of gear feeding this is decent quality and matched well. | |
| Smartphone for the audiophile? Apple is probably too LCD (least common denominator) in its approach to ever have the best onboard sound potential. Not to say the latest and greatest Apple products are not perfectly adequate for most.Goodle/Android is more of an open ecosystem o... | |
| When does speaker distortion become audible? Usually when a speaker is overdriven.Speakers may also be more victims than cause of most other forms of noticeable distortion that may also be way more common and also harder to diagnose and correct when present. | |
| Magnepan Ribbons and Hearing Loss "Hearing tests do NOT reveal all there is to know about hearing.The sine wave testing they use is really tough to listen to.In the 'real' world the upper frequencies can be noted even by people with hearing loss. They may be down lower in strength... | |
| Magnepan Ribbons and Hearing Loss Measurements I have seen indicate Magnepan ribbon tweeters appear to have substantial output at frequencies well below 10-12 khz where a lot of music occurs, so no doubt in my mind that benefits could be heard clearly even by most older ears. | |
| Best movie to see what your HT AUDIO will do. How about the drum dance scene from house of flying daggers? | |
| Does your system sound better than most demo's? Nice accounting for factors that often help make a home system sound good in comparison to others. I am also an IPA lover as well. | |
| tube amps and electrostatics "They were a reference standard for me as I heard them in every area except microdynamics. "Whoops, mean't to say macrodynamics there actually. Sorry. ES speakers I have heard tend to have microdynamics in spades. | |
| tube amps and electrostatics "The requirement of the speaker is such that almost any amplifier driving it will have to have a fair amount of feedback to do so. This will cause the amp to be un-naturally bright. IMO this makes the speaker a poor choice as you will not be able ... | |
| The future of preamps "So far all digital products have had a short shelf life as digital continues to evolve. Analog is a bit more stable design-wise."No doubt.I always wait as long as I can even to buy my next home computer because I know the longer I wait the more I... |