mapman
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| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? "I find that I forget about right speaker/left speaker as it becomes completely irrelevant."To take that a bit further, once dialed in the physical location of the speakers may be totally disassociated with the soundstage and location of things in... | |
| Magico Q7 . . . wow Assuming I could afford them (bad assumption currently with two kids still to go to college) before I would make a final judgement on their value/performance, I would have to hear them on some different systems.I think even my modest Minimus 7s wo... | |
| $$$Sensitive Speakers with $$Amps? Trelja,Its not clear to me what is the criteria by which you assess the SET versus push pull with the back-loaded horns.At what volumes are you comparing? Are you saying the SETs go both louder and clearer than the push-pulls? How about at lower v... | |
| Analytical or Musical Which way to go? No sound from speakers without amp.Amp got it easy without a source.No hear sound without ears, brain.My ears look funny. How about yours? When I cup my hands behind them everything becomes more musical! Cheap tweak! Girls laugh though. Bummer!How... | |
| Idol fans weigh in "I thought this was a hard core Hifi Club!"I get tired of talking about fuses and such sometimes.I'm a big Julianna Hough fan actually. I keep hoping she'll make another cameo appearance!Plus, hey it is live music of a sort that many watch, listen... | |
| Idol fans weigh in I bet my wife $50 that joshua would go, not philip. She loves philip but knew joshua was the real tning. Its now a demographic rerun of the year taylor hicks won. | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Sound effects of things that you are familiar with in real life make good tests. We may never know exactly how the beatles sounded in the studio for reference but there are many sounds of nature and society we might know when we hear. Logitech squ... | |
| Why does better power = better sound? "They laugh at what we spend to improve the power, yet they aren't getting the sound from their gear that they paid good money for.They would rather flip amps and gear on a continuing basis,never having really heard the gear they own running the w... | |
| Magico Q7 . . . wow I heard larger Magico also once at a show for comparison in a YG demo. I heard nothing that would warrant describing them as not musical. This was on a different system with SS amp I believe. The sound was much different than the Minis with the go... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Well, my kids have an xbox and Wii between them but neither hooked up to my audio systems or OHMs.I have played various sound effects available via Squeezebox Touch off the internet and gotta say sound effects that you might be familiar with in na... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Joefish nailed it!At first its largely about getting the right "focus" and allowing initial break in. Once it sounds as Joe describes, then you assess what tweaks if any might be applied upstream to take things to a higher level. I've found once d... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? "But we, or our brains are aware of harmonics and even notes well above 20kHz. This is why 44.1 sampling is totally inadequate."Well, I guess when things sound bad to me for some unclear reason, and all else fails, I will consider that and then be... | |
| Magico Q7 . . . wow Magico Mini 2 was reference standard musical when I heard them play an orchestral string recording off VAC amp, VTL pre-amp, DCS source and high end Nordost wires. Very detailed smooth and musical all at once.Performance with other kinds of music ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? "That led me to the following idea: If, after changing a system element, (1) individual pieces of music sound more unique, and (2) your music collection sounds more diverse, then your system is contributing less of its own signature to the music. ... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Agree with Joefish.When I fist got my newer OHMs, I did not get the sound at all at first, despite having owned original Walsh 2s for 25 years.Then once I tweaked placement a bit it was like lightbulb going off. YEs that's it! Night and Day. I am ... |