mapman
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| 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? | |
| Dump the Wadia 781? Roy,Never heard Wadia. | |
| Best lines in a song "Time to play the game! " | |
| Cardersound Nina's underwhelming... 40-25khz from a single full range driver in a moderate sized rear horn loaded enclosure?Pretty meaningless without more detail.I find it hard to believe there would be no drop off even in the upper ranges below 20khz that some might be able to hea... | |
| Dump the Wadia 781? "Wadia is more musical than the dCS which sounds very analytial with no soul."Anything but when I heard Puccinni played on very high end system with VAC tube amp, vtl pre-amp, TOTL Nordost ICs, and Magico mini.Orchestral music including massed str... | |
| Dump the Wadia 781? DCS Puccini Ring DAC technology is unique and legit IMHO and sounded very good when I heard it. Pricey though. THis might be a DAC I would strongly consider if price were no object. The transport may not be bullet proof as I recall some flakiness ... |