mapman
Responses from mapman
| 2013 Wish List New life for discontinued logitech Squeezebox line somewhere or other new products that offer similar price/performance/features. | |
| Does my acoustic ideology make me an outcast? " I just believe a system should be able to mimic any thing from gunshots to whispers"IF that challenging test can be passed, good chance the rest would work pretty well also, personal tastes aside. | |
| Spectron Musician III MK.2 or Audio Research DS450 I'm of the opinion that class d amps in general these days have raised the bar on price/performance possibilities. Best results require careful speaker matching, pretty much as is always the case. I am really hard pressed to fault the pairing of t... | |
| Mo' money. Mo' problems. I feel for those who just want to enjoy their music but get caught up in high end hystera. Heh is largely Bout vendors keeping willing customers on the hook. Why do some find it so hard to just enjoytheir music? I have my opinions why and how to e... | |
| Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list Cd remaster of carl perkins original blue suede shoes is monophonic perfection! | |
| Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list Also the rolling stones cover of can't be satisfied is a pure delight in every way. | |
| Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list Hi fi a la espanola and popovers by frederick fennell and eastman rochester pops on mercury living presence. Perfect recording maybe. These guys were bleeding edge of recorded sound 50+ years ago when hifi was a field for pioneers and still hard t... | |
| Recordings with BASS Well well well by john lennon. Sounds likes this recording could collapse my rear wall. Clean, tight and dynamic. | |
| SS amp with tight deep bass ? Bel canto ref 1000m | |
| underrated or unheard of musician/band Collective soul | |
| Spectron Musician III MK.2 or Audio Research DS450 I got to audition an ARC DS225 over the weekend running a pair of Nola Baby Grand Reference speakers. The Nola's were not quite my cup of tea, but the ARC seemed to do a good job, though I did not hear enough to make any comparisons. Definitely a ... | |
| Tube Amp Watts and Quality Electrons. LOL Tube amps tend to soft clip which allows them to seemingly go louder with less distortion per watt than most SS. | |
| Can anyone explain cable risers? Also, running wires parallel to each other and in close proximity over a distance is generally not a good idea due to em field interaction and risers are one way to avoid that. | |
| Can anyone explain cable risers? Not something i worry about but some carpets are prone to static electricity which can only be bad. | |
| how much of a difference should equipment make? My understanding is the benefits of higher damping is also speaker dependant. Some speakers are more naturally damped thmselves. Also speakers that are tube friendly also tend to have higher input impedance. |