mapman
Responses from mapman
| Does mfg's name/model affect your opinion of sound Personally, there are certain "gold standard" brands for good sound (or at least the companies behind the brand) that carry special weight with me based on personal experience over the years and the general knowledge base out there that I have rea... | |
| Do you believe in Magic? "The problem with many tweaks that can't be explained or have difficult to swallow explanations is that knowledge or expertise in the sciences of electronics and acoustics is no longer sufficient to judge them."Yep, that sure is the problem.When o... | |
| Rethinking my system: Your ideas are appreciated My OHM Walsh speakers are to my Dyn monitors what you describe you are looking for.My Dynaudio monitors are big overachievers for their size and sound much bigger than one might think, but you need bigger speakers (and perhaps more power to go wit... | |
| Does mfg's name/model affect your opinion of sound Isn't the whole idea of having a "brand" to affect people's opinion?I have to think that any concept so universally applied must be fairly effective overall.Of course, we are all smarter than to fall for all that brand malarky, right? | |
| Why has Avantgarde Quality Slipped ? "Avantgardescrewedme"?That moniker alone says a lot plus lack of OP response to-date makes the whole thing very suspicious.Seems most likely a blatant attempt to discredit Avantgarde for whatever reason as best I can tell.I would not pay any more ... | |
| the best 'tubey amp - warm,smooth,liquid' ? I had a 360 w/ch Carver m4.0t SS Tube Transfer Function amp for many years.This was one of Carver's efforts to "voice" a SS amp to sound like a tube amp and was reasonably successful at that.A corollary to that was that although it went plenty lou... | |
| Do you believe in Magic? "My use of the word "magic" isn't meant to imply that the audible effects we've been discussing have no basis in physical laws. It's simply meant to refer to audible effects that are difficult to explain.""Magic" may or may not be a suitable term ... | |
| California Audio Show 2012 I heard Yg Anat two years ago at Capital Audiofest 2010 in a YG sponsored shootout demo versus Magico. Both sounded very good, very high end with your typical small ensemble female jazz vocal audio show demo tracks. Both also VERY EXPENSIVE! So my... | |
| Choral Music Suggestions The old Shaw/Telarc Carmina Burana from the 80's is a nice recording with lots of choral passages. | |
| Why has Avantgarde Quality Slipped ? Mechans makes a good point.Open forums are not exempt from such legal scenarios TTBOMK. Slander is never good. You had better have some facts to assert a companies quality has slipped as opposed to expressing dissatisfaction in a particular case. | |
| Do you believe in Magic? I do not believe in magic when it comes to home audio. Though it may often seem that way, there is always a reason why. | |
| Choral Music Suggestions Memories - Sing Along with Mitch by Mitch Miller on vinyl is a fantastic recording.Everything I have heard by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on CD is quite good also. | |
| Do you believe in Magic? "if you have confidence in your perceptions, there may be occasions where there is no rational explanation for what you hear."Translation: you are deluded! | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? I heard the Dead live once in 1981. | |
| Zu Omen or Tekton Lore I heard Zu for first time recently at Capital Audiofest.I heard the Essence speakers. I thought these to be promising but appeared to be run off an underpowered amp at the show which limited what they could do. The demo seemed more about how few w... |