mapman
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| What is your take on Mapleshade products I would like to try the Mapleshade ICs someday as an alternative to DNM Reson with some similar design considerations. | |
| What is your take on Mapleshade products Good value line as high end goes. No shortage of marketing and/or confidence or opinion in their products from Pierre. He's a good out of the box thinker. My only compliant would be he can be quick to jump to conclusions where his products are inv... | |
| As I look at all these posts Big profit with wires. Relatively little needed to deliver a product. Who wouldn't want a piece of that? | |
| What is nearfield listening? Onh,True the spatial cues are in the recording, but i'm pretty sure reflected sound and the proper time delays for reflected sound to reach your ears is needed to deliver a big 3-D soundstage from a stereo recording as opposed to just 1 dimension ... | |
| How do you dress your cables? "How do you dress your cables?"I say "Hello, cables"!Whoops, sorry I thought you asked how I address my cables.NORTON!! | |
| What is nearfield listening? YEs, good point. NEarfield listening requires tighter co-location of drivers for proper integration/coherency across the audible sound spectrum as Rrog indicated, although that often helps with imaging, soundstage and detail in non/less nearfield ... | |
| What do you mean by "better" when it comes to cabl Simple. The listeners prefers the sound with a particular cable. That's what most mean when they say it is "better". Different wires might have different electrical properties that account for how they perform in a particular system. But these are... | |
| What is nearfield listening? Nearfield is listening close to the speakers so that most of the sound reaches your ears directly from the speakers. Its an attempt to take room acoustics and reflected sound out of the equation, much like listening to headphones. SOme speakers ar... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Monk,Very cool you have the Blue Circle OHMs! I'd love to hear those.OHM models 5 and 5000 have 4 three way level adjustments. Perspective equates to a mid-range adjustment essentially on those. I suspect yours is similar?The other three are for t... | |
| High Sensitivity Speakers that work best with SS "Mapman, do you have in mind any specific combination of very efficient speakers and a powerful amp?"THe powerful SS amps are my current Bel Canto ref1000a mono- blocks. No specific speakers in mind, though I am more interested initially with smal... | |
| Who needs drugs when you've got music? If you need them, moving to Washington or Colorado might be a good tweak! :-) | |
| Need a system for Chamber music--ideas? IT's also a good point that experimentation with the placement of the Maggies in the room along with corresponding sweet spot might get you further towards what you seek, maybe completely. I've owned Maggies and proper placement is critical for go... | |
| SB Touch...buh bye. Hello Android Media Box... "Mapman, since you already have a Squeezebox Mediaserver setup, you could use the SqueezePlayer app to turn the MINIX into a Squeezebox. Then you should be able to still use any Squeezebox controller like SqueezeCommander or Logitech's app."That's... | |
| High Sensitivity Speakers that work best with SS I have seen apparently vendor neutral headphone websites that provide very detailed charts regarding headphone specifications at teh various frequencies. I found that very useful to help sort through the myriads of headphone/earphone products out ... | |
| Need a system for Chamber music--ideas? The headphone idea is a good one!I have Klipsch Image S4 earbuds and a pair of Stax electrets. The Stax have a lot to offer in terms of musical texture and detail, similar to panel speakers but without teh room acoustics as said. The Klipsch cost ... |