mapman
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| If your whole system costs $40,000.... HEy Foster,What $7500 speakers are you running these days? IS it still the Mirage's?IS the bass finally working out? If so, what turned out to be the secret ingredient(s)? | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti I'm with GSM as well.Always fun to experiment though I suppose. That's worth something....I'd keep an eye on re-sale value though were I to tinker with an already well received and not inexpensive design, like the Audio Notes. But I suppose, as lo... | |
| What does it take to qualify as a reviewer? "I don't get the difference between people on Amazon, Crutchfield and this site."People on this site on average are more OCD when it comes to audio than people on those sites.For better or for worse....Also those sites track cumulative average rat... | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti Magico Audio Notes.Take the best of both worlds and sounds like a winner, doesn't it?Or does it?Is it Magico or Audio Note?Or something totally different?Only one way to know for sure.Someone build it and listen and see! My bet though is the cabin... | |
| If your whole system costs $40,000.... Herman is right, of course.But I suppose if the op is synthesizing the data properly and everyone is having fun, being right once again doesn't really matter? | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti "Right now, I am not convinced that baltic birch is my best choice although I realize it is my safest."Given that it is seemingly the choice of the people who designed the speaker, ie the "experts", I would assert that it is also the best choice f... | |
| Best Speaker for audiophile-grade small room rig Smaller OHM Microwalsh or 1000 floorstanders worth consideration in addition to all the good smaller monitors mentioned. Totem Arro floorstanders or slightly larger models worth a look also. Don't forget you need decent stands to go with monitors ... | |
| What does it take to qualify as a reviewer? "Look at a cross section of the "reviewers" we read (well you read, not me); bearded old fat men, failed college professors, preachers, and midgets are only some of the cast of characters."Midgets?Really? Really?I guess they use a taller chair whe... | |
| What does it take to qualify as a reviewer? 1) Good writer2) Good ears3) experience with audio4) desire to keep up with new developments5) a basic technical background to be able to distinguish a sound technical approach from gibberish6) be as unbiased as possibleAt least in theory, this is... | |
| 5+ years old $5k player vs. current $2k player There are always exceptions but in general with anything digital/computer based, you are almost always better of going with more recent technology than old at any particular price point.Why? Because digital computer technology continues to improve... | |
| Too Many Tubes? If you like them and you have a tube tester when needed, maybe not. | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti I think Br3098 and I are on the same page with this.My question again would be has the OP heard the end product as a reference? Hearing them first would be the first pre-requisite I would think before making any valid decision about how to improve... | |
| If you could bring back one great artist that has Baka,I hear you. In answering the OPs question, I would not want to bring someone back into the same painful situation that resulted in their demise originally, that's all.I chose Lennon because he appeared to have conquered many of his demons pri... | |
| If you could bring back one great artist that has No doubt the talent of both.I am a Cobain fan despite all.But if they were to live on, and be "the one" no less, my hope for both would have been to take a more constructive path for applying their talents then they were on at the time of their de... | |
| best wood for speaker cabinets ? oak,cherry, balti Mat,Sounds like a fun project!Good luck!Just wondering, have you heard what the speakers sound like following the standard AN recipe?USually best to taste the soup before adding seasoning! |