mapman
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| Aging and Treble and Income? Sarcher has a good point and I would agree. Both my Triangle and Dynaudio monitors are very revealing up top and can go from lovely top end with the right setup to meh easily with the wrong setup around them. It need not cost a fortune, just be do... | |
| EMI w/ computer, peri-HD and DAC so close 2 amps Use a network player like Sonos with wireless Wifi network connection to help isolate computers/music servers from audio gear. Also some power conditioning for the audio gear save power amp is also a good idea. | |
| Aging and Treble and Income? Sibilance is a naturally occurring thing and common in many good recordings of various instruments, including human voice. Digital recordings may emphasize it unpleasantly, but the format is not the source. Its usually in the recording just waitin... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? "but all I can think about is how good the 2000s sounded with those 500 watters."Bond, I fear you have crossed into the dark side and there is no turning back... :^) | |
| Can a new amplifier affect speaker placement? I doubt the M2 is designed to take an input from an external analog pre-amp and would think twice about even trying that unless absolutely sure.FOster, how are you liking the M2? WOuld love to hear that on my OHMs someday. | |
| Cables more hype than value? No doubt high end audio vendors do love to make mountains out of mole hills sometimes.I remember the days when we just sold customers buying good systems 12 gauge speaker wire and called it a day. Then came "Monster" cables. Scary! Then the floodg... | |
| Aging and Treble and Income? The Greene article is very good!It always helps to consider aspects of audio "perspective", ie what is heard differently at different locations relative to the source, both in a recording, to the extent possible based on any recording notes and wh... | |
| I wanna rock -- with monitors on stands Adding subs also a very sound option! | |
| I wanna rock -- with monitors on stands "The Legacy audio Studio HD is 93db efficient."Have not heard these particular Legacy speakers, but at least on paper, these might be worth consideration as a result of same bass driver size and higher efficiency. Might not go quite as low though ... | |
| Aging and Treble and Income? Albert,You should give a listen to something like These, just to hear something completely different at a minimum.If the highly etched tonality that mbl or GP seem to deliver does not grab you as I seem to recall, these just might. Really good omn... | |
| I wanna rock -- with monitors on stands Clock, Have you evef heard a pair of good dynaudio or totem monitors off say a good 250w/ch or more class d amp or equivalent? That would be something worth comparing perhaps. Amp + speakers together might fall in your price range. Active monitors... | |
| Aging and Treble and Income? E, Never heard that one before. But maybe if so, it was in response to many speaker/amp combos of the day tilting tne other way? Modern gear is much better overall so maybe carts are just following suit and trying to NOT sound like a lot of digital. | |
| I wanna rock -- with monitors on stands Triangle genese trios maybe. You need something with a larger bass driver and similar efficiency to have a chance with the same amp. | |
| Can a new amplifier affect speaker placement? "With HUGE dynamics like this, I could get into this whole classical thing!"Funny how that works! Dynamics is a big part of how classical music impacts us. When it is not there as it should be, things suffer. | |
| Cables more hype than value? Some people have more specific expectations than others. When you are listening for a very specific sound, you are more likely to note any differences. That alone might account for it. That and/or the fact that not all wires necessarily sound very... |