mapman
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| Has anyone experimented with switching the Havana I'd be curious if anybody knows any similar inexpensive tricks to try for the mhdt Paradisea or Constantine DACs? | |
| Biggest impact on you? OHM speakers.First heard them back in 1978 and I have come full circle back to them again these last few years.I fit these to my rooms and build my system around them to make them sound best and am getting mega payback these days.The OHM Walsh spe... | |
| Recordings with BASS Much of "Monkey Business" by the Black Eyed Peas for bass you should feel."On the Threshold of a Dream" by the Moody Blues for bass articulation, detail and control.If both of these sound good, most everything else should also and you are in very ... | |
| Totem and Bel Canto? "but the Arros are indeed easy to drive"PErhaps to drive in general, but do not let the small size fool you. To drive optimally for best balance and performance, I believe they require significant power and current. They are fine speakers especial... | |
| About synergy? None of the approaches you list are sufficient alone to assure good results.Its all about the synergy and how each piece interacts as part of the whole to deliver the final results. Infinite ways to accomplish this. Never simple, unless you happen... | |
| The search among the great ones - 20k+ speakers Expensive speakers may be bigger and better. BEtter is good but bigger is not always the best solution. It depends on the room. You need a bigger room in general for bigger speakers. So be sure to keep to the room and how the speakers will integra... | |
| Totem and Bel Canto? I'd prefer the Bel Canto with Totem. | |
| The search among the great ones - 20k+ speakers Investigate a pair of OHM Walsh speakers with in home trial first for ~$1800-$6500 depending on room size first before dropping $20K on speakers. | |
| Do you use variable speed on your turntable? I've had this feature on many tables but only used it to lock in the correct speed as best as possible visually using the typical complementary strobe light visual speed indicator features, not to tweak the speed otherwise.If the records did not s... | |
| Best treatment for speaker feet???? Spikes I suppose.My large OHM 5 floorstanders use locking castors, which works very well given the pyramidal form but is not practical for many tall rectangular floorstanders probably. Castors also facilitate easy movement and tweaking of placemen... | |
| Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl? MikeL,I like your assessment and the mirror analogy.Its a matter of degree though. You could say that the record is made of individual molecules but they fit together perfectly and occur at a scale that makes it insignificant. Similar with digital... | |
| What does mist racking actually sound like? Elizabeth, you are a hoot and make me laugh!:-) | |
| Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl? "I would say vinyl still has the edge. Through the whole process, it also keeps it in the same mechanical vibration format it started out in, and is reproduced by the speakers in that manner, the same as we hear."I used to think that but having he... | |
| Which is more accurate: digital or vinyl? "Interesting question, Mapman, but I don't think that it has an answer. Since there are a great many ways in which each medium and its reproduction can be inaccurate, how does one weight each of those ways relative to the others, and tally up a ne... | |
| What does mist racking actually sound like? Darn, I thought someone actually came up with some new audio topic that I had not heard of before.Mistracking usually results in some combination of audible distortion and/or superfluous surface noise as the stylus tracks the record. |