mapman
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| Can a tiny silver bowl affect music reproduction Every thing in a room affects acoustics. The only question is to what extent and if significant, and also value in that most anything marketed to audiophiles is likely to carry a premium price for whatever it may or may not do. | |
| New Thiel Speakers - Post Jim Thiel Era ITs true that THiel faces a lot of competition these days whereas they ruled a certain niche in the audio market in years past, so that has to be a challenge for them. | |
| Is a tube phono better than ss? YEs, getting quiet tubes needed for phono is a real consideration for tube phono.My ARC sp16 has 3 tubes in phono stage. I learned from ARC when replacing that only one of the three must meet higher tolerance for low noise use in it. I appreciated... | |
| Your audiogram and your preferred sound Differences in individual hearing no doubt helps account for the wide variety of gear out there that is generally judged to sound good and be of high quality despite the fact that chances are two individuals are not assured to like the same thing ... | |
| Tubes 101 TUbe #s/model merely identify a set of standard parameters that enable different ones to be used interchangeably. These alone do not assure a certain "sound", only that certain models are more likely to work best in a particular design, case by ca... | |
| Is a tube phono better than ss? Easy answer: it all depends (on too many things to give a single answer conclusively in general).Neither has the market cornered on delivering best results case by case. That's why both are still around and have substantial followings. Like Honda ... | |
| Thiel death do we part . . . BLue point cart is one of the few pieces I have owned over the years that in retrospect I would label as clearly "midfi", ie limited potential to help deliver top notch sound.I owned BLue Point and not the "special" which is reputed to be better, ... | |
| New Thiel Speakers - Post Jim Thiel Era Companies have to make a profit. Thiel will do that by selling new speakers. The plain fact is they will do whatever they decide is best to do that. Companies need to innovate usually to remain relevant but they would be foolish to trash the Thiel... | |
| Thiel death do we part . . . Ditch the blue point special. Try a denon dl103r.I ran a blue point for years, it is likely a big limiting factor as you describe. | |
| Thiel death do we part . . . A tube or two ahead of the amp in pre amp or source can help wake up lesser recordings in many cases. | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? I've heard Goldenear speakers recently which is a Definitive spinoff line. Loved the AON monitors, larger Tritons, which resemble Definitive more, left more flat our cold than most anything I have heard in recent years. The setup may have had issu... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Great story.Its cool how we remember what we heard years ago and how its still relevant 40 years later. | |
| Need a warm amp for bright speakers Personally, I would buy the best amp I can to match your speakers and use tubes up front in the pre-amp and/or source to get the tonality desired, warm or otherwise. NAD power amps would be a sound choice but many others as well under this model. | |
| Need a warm amp for bright speakers NAD will do the trick and should not cost a lot to try especially if you go used/vintage. | |
| best recorded 78rpm to look for, also cartridge... 78s are a lot of fun and most all can be an interesting sonic treat albeit of a much different flavor than most recordings since.I use an old Admiral multi speed player with cert cart and 78 needle to record old 78s to digital on my music server. ... |