martykl
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| Your Best HiFi DVD Errata:Taku Hirana is the drummer on Lindsey Buckingham's DVDMarty | |
| The Most Beautiful Song of The RnR era? Kris,I agree with your general sentiment which is why "Hello, It's Me" was the second song I listed in the original post. The guy is just a machine - cranking out amazing songs year after year. Some of his lyrics push it a bit, but the melodies an... | |
| Swap my klipsch heresy's for Ohm walsh 2 Map,Although I read Mechans' post in a different way than you did (I don't know if he's auditoned only older model Ohms), I was just making a point about my experience with Ohms and dynamics:I underestimated the speakers' ability in this area for ... | |
| Musical full-range in the $3-4K range used? Komaki,I own Cremonas (non-M series) and they feature a modestly elevated "warmth" region. Unlike some of the older SF speakers (I have also owned Minuettos for app 15 years) these speakers have more output through the presence region. The net eff... | |
| Swap my klipsch heresy's for Ohm walsh 2 One more thought. Just to see if my impression of improved dynamics was the result of my "acclimating" to the speakers or whether the speakers had actually improved, I briefly dropped my pair of Zingali 3s back into the system the other day. These... | |
| Swap my klipsch heresy's for Ohm walsh 2 Mechans,I recently bought Ohm 100s and maintained for almost 2 months (I made several posts to this effect on various threads in this forum) that the speakers were mediocre as far as large scale dynamics. I was going to hang on to them anyway beca... | |
| New phono preamp or tonearm? I don't know the TechnoArm, but the PH3 is a very good phono stage. I've directly compared it to the PH7 and found surprisingly little difference in performance with a Lyra Dorian (the PH3 seemed - maybe - a touch drier in treble). A better cart (... | |
| Turntable Speed I believe that this is also a problem more specific to Transrotor. I have a Sirius that also runs a bit fast and in researching the issue found a lot of Transrotor owners had similar problems. Since the unit is not in use, I haven't pursued a solu... | |
| CD's you bring for auditioning I've had a few standards over the years.Peter Gabriel's soundtrack for "Last Temptation" has some descending patterns on tuned drums that are a great test of a system's bass response.Don Dixon's cover of "Cool" from West Side Story on his "Romeo a... | |
| Tube amp recommendation Ralph,Some irony in your "If an amp is good..." quotation.I once owned an S-30 (very early production) that was terrific with Merlin VSMs...so long as there was no deep bass content. With my Verity P/E, the amp sounded very good ONLY on a limited ... | |
| Your Best HiFi DVD Lindsey Buckingham at Bass Hall. Great songs, tremendous guitar playing, and truly high impact sound. The sound of drummer Wilfredo Reyes' digital kit can be startling. This is about the only dvd I watch.Marty | |
| Can you adjust the phase between subs and mains? Kal,That explains my experience in which the offset 180 degree phase setting and inverted polarity setting on the SMS yielded very different results.Marty | |
| Can you adjust the phase between subs and mains? I'll second the Velodyne SMS for the same reason as Kal. I'd also note that the 2 controls on the SMS; "phase" and "polarity" (I'm not sure how 180 degrees of phase differs from polarity) were absolutely critical to achieving smooth integration of... | |
| digital eq/room correction trade-offs I'll offer a slightly different take.Room effects are almost always most pernicious below app 150hz. Room correction in this range - IMHO - will far outweigh any benefits you get from maintaining a purist signal path. As you go upward in frequency... | |
| How do Digital Amps Mfrs. compare in sound? I use the Bel Canto 300 integrated amp (primarily with Sonus Faber Cremonas) and would observe that the amp is clean, powerful, and otherwise unremarkable. I have observed no real issues with the treble, but I've definitely heard more "texture" ou... |