mapman
Responses from mapman
| 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... | |
| Totem speakers and others that I should consider? I heard a few Tidal speakers at Capital Audiofest recently among many others.WHen I heard Totem Elements at a local dealer shortly after, I found the sound overall reminded me most of the Tidals of the speakers I had heard at CAF but of course muc... | |
| Jerry Garcia, A Legacy? "No other guitarist could take my spirit and make it SOAR!"I know many including leading local clergy who feel the same way. So there must be something to it."American Beauty" in particular side 2 is the only Dead album I can think of that can reg... | |
| Ohm Walsh Microtall or Vandersteen 1C "Grace Under Pressure"That might most simply describe the thing I like best about the OHMs. Nothing seems to phase them ie they are seemingly NEVER the bottleneck, however they will easily reveal shortcomings upstream, in recordings etc. | |
| Do you believe in Magic? Bryon,I do not recall the details of how your computer is connected to your audio system, but assuming it is via wires, then I would most likely attribute the difference to a change in the computer generated noise domain resulting from a configura... |