mapman
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| D class amps with Soundlab speakers Dob's description matches pretty well to what I hear with the IcePower Bel Canto ref1000m monoblock Class D amps in my system. They seem to work well with most any speaker design it seems though if your speakers are a bottleneck to the sound, you ... | |
| Enough SET Power for Rock and Roll I wonder what pairings of SET and speaker might do rock/pop best?Klipsch Cornwall seems like a good match. Are there better ones? What kind of cost should one expect between amp and speakers to really do it well along the lines Larryi described? A... | |
| Enough SET Power for Rock and Roll Interesting thread.I'd like to try a SET based setup someday but right or wrong I tend to associate SETs more with Jazz and chamber music than rock and pop, which constitutes a fair portion of my listening. | |
| TAD Rocks Big Time Very sad to hear that.I asked him a question only once and he did respond promptly as advertised.Did not know the man personally but beyond his talents he seemed to be one of those good people who just wanted to do things right and generally succe... | |
| Multiple arms, multiple cartridges and geometry? Halcro,No worse I suppose then me having to pick a room to listen in. I had in wall speaker wires run to 5 rooms and my deck when my house was built. Instead of swapping carts, I have to run downstairs and select the room on the speaker switch. I ... | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Manage expectations. Be realistic. Think about how you and your system will integrate with the room and acoustics. Get all that tuned in and optimized first before doing anything else.For example if your room is more like a club than a symphony ha... | |
| Looking for a DAC for the Squeezebox Touch "In doing my research I soon realized that most people involved with primarily digital audio setups are on a different better or worse scale than the analog side. You can usually trust the, "it sounds better," remark, but I found just how much bet... | |
| Equipment you just must get if you can VAC Phi Beta integrated amp. Beauty!I'd second the AR Ref 5 pre-amp as well as a potential system upgrade for me if cost were no issue.Lastly, a DCS Ring DAC device of some sort as perhaps the last DAC I might ever need (for awhile).Oh and why not... | |
| "And now for something completely different": Linked URLA modern day/retro Spirograph?Next will be the digital version ie a software program simulating multiple turntables used to draw stuff. More user friendly but less "musical"? Might be enhanced to graph out and record the actual groove mo... | |
| Used cables $1k - SF Amati and Bel Canto RF1000?? Have you tried toeing your speakers in or out or setting them up in any configuration that might work where the tweeters are not firing directly at you? That should reduce any hotness in the top end.For example, I have BC ref1000m amps running Dyn... | |
| Upscaling Speakers, Downscaling Amp...What to Do? That VAC is a hot number and will be hard to replace.As owner of Bel Canto ref 1000m monoblocks running off an ARC tube pre-amp, and having heard perhaps the best tube amp sound that I know of coming out of very expensive VAC amps, I'd say Bel Can... | |
| Room treatment made me cry.......a little........ "Room treatment made me cry"Glad to hear it due to the results, not the cost! :-)Do you think removing the TV was a significant part of the improvement? THanks. | |
| DNM Stereo speaker cables-experiences? FWIW, I like that DNM sells some expensive and highly regarded gear however they stick with their minimalist wire design. I'm sure these are highly profitable but I have no problem with that as long as they also seem to represent good and practica... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? These are 5000's right?IF so, then you have the on-board adjustments to match to room size and acoustics so room size should not be a problem.IF put my 5s with similar adjustments in my smaller 12X12 room just to see/hear how well they worked ther... | |
| Multiple arms, multiple cartridges and geometry? SO the big question...how does it all sound? How do you choose which setup to use when playing a record? Was it all worth it? |