mapman
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| 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 ... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? The OHM is a unique design due largely to its use of the wave bending wide range Walsh driver. The omni presentation combined with ability to be placed relatively close to walls if needed is probably the most unique feature.Second is the wide rang... | |
| Prog Rock More recent 21st century albums by the flaming lips like embryonic and yoshimi may have appeal. | |
| Are you a Verificationist about audio? Interesting thread. I'd say i both am and i am not. It depends. However we formulate our models of how things work, they are often abstracted models that typically only deal with factors that matter to each of us. Some possibly many details are om... | |
| Fuses that matter. People waste way more money on way worse things than fuses I suppose.I sold 100s if not thousands of fuses to people at Radio Shack years ago. I often also replaced them for people when their stuff did not work. 3 for 99 cents was the price I reca... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? I bought my first Walsh 2s in 1982.Circa 1986 or so, when I got a real job and some money, I started a fling with Magnepans and kept both until about 3 years ago. I also added a pair of B&W P6s and Triangle Titus along the way in that my house... |