mapman
Responses from mapman
| Everything matter in the audio chain. Tests prove it! Yes everything matters including the individual. | |
| The Beatles Revolver Something for the grumpy old men. | |
| The Beatles Revolver Something New? Because? You Can’t Do That! Let it Be! Tomorrow Never Knows…. Help! | |
| Downloads Versus Streaming The rest of the good news is it’s neither hard nor costly to do it right these days. | |
| Downloads Versus Streaming You never know what any individual will determine sounds better but the good news is either way should sound very good if done right. | |
| The Beatles Revolver The remix of Taxman from Revolver is available on Spotify. It sounded pretty good! | |
| Basic Roon Question Consider Plex as an option versus Roon. You can stream your music anywhere not just at home. | |
| My quest for a pair of Tonian Labs speakers was finally realized Yesterday Never heard but have always been on my would like to hear list. | |
| Thoughts about the "Cheapaudioman" on YouTube Sounds like maybe he is just trying to help the everyday man get better sound.... not undermining "audiophiles"? I would assert you do NOT have to be an audiophile these days to get top notch sound. Future Fi gear like all-in-ones solve most a... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? What’s the slew rate? How much power and current? How many tubes? | |
| What’s Voodoo power cords signature sounding? Power cables do not make sound. The gear they power do. What they can do is deliver power reliably. Most of what happens then is up to the gear. So you want good quality wires that are up to the task. Don’t cheap out and don’t go overboard, at lea... | |
| Which ones should I choose? Tannoy Kensington Gr or B&W 804 D4 Always best to audition however possible but in lieu of that I would be biased towards the Tannoy. | |
| KEF LS50 Speaker Stands I listen to my ls50 metas at tweeter level using 36” stands. I’m pretty tall. Read the setup instructions on the manual. It’s not intended that you aim the tweeters directly at you. Metas have better horizontal dispersion than originals. You ... | |
| Bragging rights..... @asvjerry Other than spls now limited to the low 90s at my main listening position, the amp in the newer Cambridge took everything to a higher level especially with the big Ohms than the gear it replaced, which was somewhat older….Bel Canto r... | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing @atmasphere backs up his words with his actions. That makes for a strong case. We will see. About 12 years back I was on the brink of going with tube amps to get the sound I wanted but decided to look forward and try the newer evolving te... |