mapman
Responses from mapman
| Why does better power = better sound? "With the Audience aR6-TS in my system, it’s as if I can walk through my speakers and literally shake hands with the musicians. "I have a lot of problems pulling the trigger on power upgrades in my case.I know cleaner power can make a difference. ... | |
| Early digital recordings on vinyl vs. CD? There was a box of free records to pick through at the last audio show I attended. One of the ones I picked was a mid 80's digital classical recording on Angel records. Ughh. The price was right! Not horrible really, but definitely below par.So ye... | |
| Speakers sound best facing wall???? You can orient your speakers any way you want. IF it works for you, then that's really all that matters. Congratulations on an innovative solution that likely also saved you a lot of $$$$s otherwise.I can relate to some degree. When I sit at my de... | |
| Explain Class D amps to "non audiophile friends" Tony,If you are not accepting due to a pre-conception about what a good amplifier looks like, or even how it works, then I might venture to say you are on the wrong path.IF you have heard a Class D amp and are not convinced, then I would say your ... | |
| Explain Class D amps to "non audiophile friends" "Semiconductors are getting much faster every year including high current Mosfets."Exactly!Much technological progress over the last half century has evolved around the speed of semiconductors as evident in the myriad of increasingly functional el... | |
| Explain Class D amps to "non audiophile friends" Fascinating technology!The main thing I wonder about is how much better even will it get over time for hifi audio purposes.There would still seem to be some practical upside in maturation of this particular technology though I would say it has cle... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Also I belive a Gundry dip refers to a dip in the 2-4 khz area with which I read some BBC monitors/speakers in particular are associated. Most speakers have crossover points somewhere in there as well but the OHMs crossover a fair bit higher, so i... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Bondman,Have you ever heard your buddy's system? I wonder what it is like?I could make the same observation about my OHMs versus my Dynaudios which both are run off my system concurrently in different rooms. The Dyn's always seem at least a touch ... | |
| Early digital recordings on vinyl vs. CD? Often, the extreme macro dynamics are the most distinctive feature about most early digital recordings on vinyl such as several from Telarc that I recall compared to others, including same recordings on CD, where the format puts a limit on dynamic... | |
| Fuses that matter. Bryon, Next go round try the liquid fuses that i have seen advertised here of late. Just be sure to not spring a leak. If you can't hear much difference with that one then i would punt for sure. I would expect a sound that is more, how to describe... | |
| Magico Q7 . . . wow I want to hear weasels in carnegie hall. "rzzzzz" | |
| Name your 5 favorite Led Zeppelin tracks. Physical graffiti: favorite album.There i made a decision albeit not the one asked for. | |
| recommendations for tube dampers??? I look at them as an insurance policy. The purpose is to reduce or eliminate microphonics which is a form of noise, not signal. Audio research seems to provide dampers with installed tubes and provide them with low noise tube replacement for the p... | |
| Fuses that matter. Bryon, I nominate you for the next nobel fuse prize! :-) Nice job. | |
| $$$Sensitive Speakers with $$Amps? ".. its nice to have some dynamic range available, even if it does not get used all that much."Not just dynamic range (difference between loudest and lowest levels) but headroom in general to go loud as needed even if the dynamic range is compress... |