mapman
Responses from mapman
| Best Live Album Ever... Beatles "Live at the BCC"?"Caravan and the New Symphonia"?"AC/DC Live"?Floyd "Live at Pompeii" DVD is awesome.ALso Steve Hackett's "Tokyo Tapes" and "Once Above a Time" DVDs.I'm not much of a video fan but I do tend to favor video formats for most... | |
| Best Live Album Ever... Beatles "Live at the BCC"?"Caravan and the New Symphonia"?"AC/DC Live"? | |
| Buy new CDP or just add a newer DAC? Lots of threads already here on Agon suggesting DACs that might fit the bill.In my mind, first determine what kind of sound will balance out in your system best. Do you want a softer, warmer, less fatiguing sound than current? In that case look fo... | |
| Why do planars have poor bass extension? "Mapman, I suppose your key phrase here is "good cone bass"! How many such speaker systems exist today? "I suppose what is considered good is subjective, but I would say many if set up well and driven well with the right amp."you mean it's easier ... | |
| Why do planars have poor bass extension? I'm in agreement with PTM and Bombay, except that I would not describe good cone bass necessarily as "boom-boom-boom". I realized after owning planars for a while that "cone" bass can sound similar to planars when done right, for example with good... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Haven't touched my player in quite a while. I'm a music server guy mostly these days, with vinyl listening tossed in as well from time to time.Tonight I will be queuing up some Flaming Lips. Not sure which one quite yet. | |
| Why do planars have poor bass extension? I've read accounts that make sense to me that often the support structure is the weak link in the bass of planars. The frames tend to not be very massive and there is little inertial foundation for the drivers to work against. Adding mass and/or r... | |
| Buy new CDP or just add a newer DAC? Starting with the right DAC will give biggest bang per buck both short and long term. | |
| The best CD Player for the money "however the very best server-based systems I have heard coincidentally were connected to some of the best dac's i've heard"That was probably not a coincidence and a direct result of the DAC."What annoys me is audiophiles who claim high rez music ... | |
| Avantgarde or Tonian? No doubt sensory overload can be fatiguing. But there are many ways to calm things down when needed. You can't add what is not there to start, assuming one cares. A bad recording is a bad recording. Nothing can make it something it isn't. | |
| Magnepan 1.7 too bright, HELP A good class D power amp of same or higher power would probably fix the problem.A cheaper thing to try beforehand might be to swap in a pair of inexpensive MIT Terminator ICs for the Monsters and see if that helps. If not, probably still a good in... | |
| Rogue versus Peachtree I'd eliminate the Peachtree Inova in that I doubt the amp has enough ooomph to make the Maggies sing at their best. | |
| Avantgarde or Tonian? "So, you disagree that keeping constant room acoustics, source, electronics, listening position, et cetera, and changing only the speaker there has been a progressive movement toward offering a more intense sensory experience, and what I mean by t... | |
| Avantgarde or Tonian? "I describe modern hi-fi as giving an incredibly accurate and vivid visual image of the musical event."Agree. At least it is CAPABLE of doing that, in general better than ever, but other factors come into play as well to actually make good things ... | |
| Avantgarde or Tonian? "I've heard Avantgardes many a time and they can sound amazing but I can also understand when someone says they sound hi-fi sounding what is meant."I can understand it I suppose when someone says this. I suppose its more that I do not agree with t... |