mapman
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| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? I posted this to Carja's system thread but am including here also in case of value to others:I think the key to soundstage depth with the OHMS is distance from rear wall (several feet if possible) + some degree of sound reflectivity off the rear w... | |
| Enough SET Power for Rock and Roll I've heard the Jolida fx10 mentioned in that article do a surprisingly good job with a pair of Nola monitors. I could see it doing very well with Zu's. THe author seemed to like the Miniwatt as well. Will have to check those out.How about Zu versu... | |
| Missing sound of instruments/voice/ on CD tracks Are you saying maybe that some instruments and voice is not discernible, muddled, or not as clear as it should be, or truly not there at all?Big difference.There are tweaks that might address the first but the second would seem to be a more signif... | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? For someone who cannot live with just a single system and its sound for whatever reason, another option is to set up multiple systems. Nothing wrong with variety.A very practical and cost effective way to do this these days is wireless LAN access ... | |
| Enough SET Power for Rock and Roll I wonder how some of the Zu speaker offerings compare to Klipsch in terms of performance and value for rock music off a SET type amp? | |
| Enough SET Power for Rock and Roll The Audio Mirror stuff is very nice looking and appears reasonably priced. | |
| How does one get off the merry-go-round? Some will find s Merry Go Round to be fun.Others not.High End Audio merry go rounds can be expensive though and send a lot of money down the drain. That's never a good thing. Inefficient at best! | |
| 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... |