mapman
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| The Worst Performance Ever - Really Well, it made those pigeons scramble for sure....never a good sign.Guess that's one good reason I never heard of those guys.But really, no time or era has ever had a monopoly on things deemed good or bad either at the time or currently. It's alway... | |
| Best Speakers You Have Ever Heard In Your Home I have speakers in 5 different rooms in my home and run each regularly and sometimes concurrently, for a/b tests.I have yet to find any 1 speaker that works best in all rooms. There is a lesson to be learned there. My big OHM 5s are probably the m... | |
| First Foray into Internet Radio The easy way if computer has decent DAC in it, is to run a long analog phono rca y connector from headphone output to stereo analog input. I've gotten surprisingly good results this way using very basic but decent quality laptops as the source.The... | |
| Best Speakers for 10' x 12' room? Are the Pulsars worth $7000? That's a lot compared to many speakers that might work quite well in a room like that. Just wondering. THey look nice and company has a good rap but have never heard them. Has anyone done specific comparisons with othe... | |
| Amp recommendation for Klipsch Heresy Jolida Fx10 tube integrated is in your range. I've heard it. A slam dunk in your case if input support is sufficient.Glow audio also has inexpensive tube amps that have impressed me for There are inexpensive Dared tube amps sold on amazon that get... | |
| Listening Chair? My years old Scan recliner is my favorite. IT looks something like ThisI just got an inversion table. Can't wait to see how things sound hanging upside down... :^) | |
| What audio components are heirloom quality? "Everyone is trying to get to the barThe name of the bar, the bar is called heavenThe band in heaven, they play my favourite songPlay it one more time, play it all night longHeaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happensHea... | |
| What audio components are heirloom quality? Maybe "what will audiophile heaven be like" could be an interesting thread.Also its companion thread about the other place.... | |
| What audio components are heirloom quality? Ghost,I hope so in that I do not anticipate taking my audio toys with me...Will there be any Clever Clocks there, I wonder??? :^) | |
| What audio components are heirloom quality? I would like to speculate that someday when I go to the great listening room in the sky, my audio gear will become "family heirlooms" in that everyone in my family knows how fond I am of it and maybe that will encourage them to keep and use as hei... | |
| What audio components are heirloom quality? "Audio equipment Isn't an heirloom."Maybe, for a family of audiophiles. Is there such a thing? :^) | |
| An interesting experiment This kind of experimenting with various impedance matches is very interesting. Looking forward to whatever general findings or patterns might be detected. | |
| An interesting experiment Oferi,Many SS amps designed specifically for good performance with all pre-amps, including tube pre-amps, have 60Kohm or higher input impedance to compensate for higher general output impedance of tube pre-amps. That helps keep distortion minimal ... | |
| Best Speakers for 10' x 12' room? Smaller room usually means smaller speakers possible for good bass.Also listening position is often closer to speakers than otherwise. Often the closer drivers are perceived to be a point source from the perspective of your listening position, the... | |
| What audio components are heirloom quality? What is considered an "heirloom" is a very personal thing. Not sure how to answer this usefully. Each family will have its own considerations regarding heirlooms. |