meiatflask
Responses from meiatflask
| 1st Album you Ever Owned? Simon and Garfunkel- greatest hits | |
| Have you changed your mind about a brand? Was it you, or them? Let me go back a few years....I had a marantz 8b back in the 70s. Through my Rogers LS3/5a, I knew I had died and gone to heaven. Sold the 8b in the mid 80s, Parted with the Rogers around 2000. I had a chance to listen to both (separately) in ... | |
| What do/did you do for a living? Metallurgical/materials Engineer, retired 5 years. I spent most of my career determining the best material/metal/polymer to make things out of. I get a chuckle from many of the materials related items in audio, especially tweaks, isolation, and o... | |
| $3000 stand mounted speakers? Mjcmt- sorry can’t be of any help with the different tablette versions. Think you might be confusing the anniversary and signature versions, which are different. I only listened to the tablette anniversary at the time I purchased them. They hav... | |
| $3000 stand mounted speakers? I have always had EL34 amps and stand mounted monitors, since 1978 when I had the original Rogers LS3/5a and a Marantz 8. Have been through many combinations through the decades and some years ago settled in on the ProAc Tablette Anniversary drive... | |
| New tube preamp Home demo’ed the LTA and was not impressed. Did not live up to the hype. Different, but not a step up from the solid state preamp section on my Naim DAC/pre/headphone amp. Ended up with a demo ET-7 Conrad Johnson instead. Be sure to listen in you... | |
| Who else here is frugal? Erik- love the post.As an engineer, we talk about having a design that is “efficient” - getting the most performance out of something without wasting anything. Squeezing the most out of something. So part of designing an efficient widget include... | |
| Magnepan 1.7 i - Amp suggestions If you like tubes - I am using the big Primaluna HP Dialogue Premium, which has 4 EL34s per channel. Sounds really sweet with my LRS. Only ~80 wpc, but plenty of current. I think the smaller Primaluna with 2 EL34s per channel would not be enou... | |
| Am I the only one who doesn’t love Harbeth P3esr? home demoed a pair of P3-ESRs that we’re well broken in by the dealer, thinking they would be an upgrade to my Proac tablette anniversary editions. Nope. Driven with Primaluna EL34 tube amp, the soundstage size and depth was bigger and deeper on... | |
| Which Stands for Magnepan LRS (and other models): Mye, Magnariser, Sound Anchor, etc I have not heard the .7, so I cannot opine on them. I have a smallish room, so the smaller LRS mad sense to me; I had determined that the 1.7 were too big/tall for my room. | |
| Which Stands for Magnepan LRS (and other models): Mye, Magnariser, Sound Anchor, etc I ordered the end of May directly from Magnepan. I emailed them using a contact link on the website, and they responded, gathering my contact and color/trim choices, then put me in the queue. | |
| Which Stands for Magnepan LRS (and other models): Mye, Magnariser, Sound Anchor, etc Clio09- what is “gunned”? | |
| Which Stands for Magnepan LRS (and other models): Mye, Magnariser, Sound Anchor, etc Ok. magna riser, you present a compelling argument, and quite frankly the neither the mye or sound anchors sound like their designs are really perfect for the LRS. So should I consider one of the three current stands that works for the LRS, or sh... | |
| Interconnects and Speaker Cable, What in your history hit your pleasure button? I demo’ed a preamp last year and needed to borrow another set of interconnects because my preamp was a preamp/DAC unit. The dealer (audio archon in Chicago area) loaned me Planus silver AG by MG audio. The interconnects made a bigger difference ... | |
| Reference 3a Grand Veena for a small room? Tubegroover- Thanks, but I am not in the market anymore. |