mapman
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| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? One other thing worth noting with all OHM Walshes and bass is that they are all bottom ported and can interact with the common wood particle board floors used in many modern homes including mine in ways that strongly affect the bass. In my case wi... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? FWIW, I have read reviews from MWT owners that indicate bass levels is not a problem even in larger rooms. Certain recordings that plumb the lowest octaves and do it well benefit most from adding a sub. A good pipe organ recording is a typical cas... | |
| The Best Compliment You've Gotten On Your Rig? Atmasphere, I heard your amps in the Classic Audio Room at Capital Audifest and will now try to do you one better:It was very lifelike and just about as good as it gets! | |
| Squeezebox Line Comes to an End IF even possibly true I would suggest SB fans communicate their displeasure to Logitech. I will try to read some more when I have time but for now will take any unofficial comments on forums with a grain of salt.The home audio market is surely not... | |
| Top 5 Classical recordings I can't argue Bach as perhaps the greatest and most prolific composer in terms of quantity, quality, and mass appeal.A lot of lovely classical music up until the later 19th century tends to be somewhat homogenous, ie more similarities than differe... | |
| Top 5 Classical recordings "One suggestion is the recent release of Mercury Living Presence: The CollectorÂ’s Edition (Ltd. Edition). The sound is superb, the price is ridiculous, and there is a lot to like (or ignore). . . although early music is still not part of the packa... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? I good "training" exercise is to go to a local high end audio dealer that you might be interested in doing business with and ask to listen to a variety of recordings on their biggest best system. That can help give you a frame of reference for wha... | |
| Squeezebox Line Comes to an End ALso, the news releases on teh new products only indicate that these new products are targeting the mobile listener market mainly. THat makes sense from a marketing perspective to gain new users. There is nothing to indicate that home audio users ... | |
| Squeezebox Line Comes to an End Are we jumping to a conclusion perhaps still regarding "SB is dead"?It's not clear to me from anything I've read yet that the Squeezebox line is dead.IT could just be a marketing refocus to make newer devices easier to use and more appealing to th... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? I suspect some of the most frustrated audiophiles that can't get off the merry go round out there are those that are bass focused and have unrealistic expectations of their recordings to all sound exactly the way they would like. | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? "An issue I still can't get past is that from album to album, artist to artist, the volume of bass will vary hugely. "That's inherent largely in recordings. Each recording usually requires unique processing in order to get all to sound a certain w... | |
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced IF there is a rich and dumb audiophile market out there, I suppose someone will serve it.Rich and smart do not always go hand in hand so I suspect there is such a market out there to target and scoring in that market is probably not all that hard ... | |
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced Oy vey!GEof, from the forums, at least we both seem to like a lot of the same music. I'll leave it on that positive note. FWIW, I sell nothing and have no vested interests in this discussion. | |
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced "But no one has ever used the word quantum as a marketing ploy, at least not for audio devices, not in fifteen years. I suggest you might be a wee bit overly suspicious."Well, anyone can do a Google search on "Quantum Audio Tweak" and decide for t... | |
| Recent equipment you hated, thought overpriced No my observation has been that the term quantum is often used as a marketing ploy to make something appear more sophisticated and valuable then it would be otherwise. I am a fan of keeping communications as simple and accurate as possible, not mu... |