melvinjames
Responses from melvinjames
| The term "High End" needs to die. Long live Hi-Fidelity! @geoffkait .. I must have been writing when you posted. Yeah, no difference. | |
| The term "High End" needs to die. Long live Hi-Fidelity! People in general need (instinct?) to categorize everything into neat little boxes. In our culture high end equates to expensive. The same occurs with "high-fidelity" .. hi-fi, mid-fi, low-fi. It's what we do. | |
| Your favourite music movie? +1 for "Harold and Maude". I love the movie and the soundtrack. | |
| Ended my Qobuz subscription I'm a jazz fan as well and cancelled my Qobuz subscription a couple of months ago. I went back to Spotify Premium (gasp!) While Qobuz sounds fantastic it can't compete with Spotify's catalog. I've found I can live with the slight loss in sound qua... | |
| Any other lone audiophiles here? Not a one. Fortunately, I have several acquaintances who are music whores, one of which is a borderline audiophile. He's also a musician who does some recording and put together a pretty nice audio system (mix of old/new components, Elac UniFi tow... | |
| what is more important ? I tend to agree with the speaker-first camp but I've also used a cost-balanced approach to very good effect. As an example, say $1000 each for an integrated amp, source(s), and a pair of loudspeakers, throw in a modest amount for cables and you ca... | |
| Your favourite music movie? Don Juan DeMarco - a wonderful little film with Dep, Brando and Dunaway. The opening track is "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman" receiving a Grammy nomination for best song but don't be fooled, The infectious score was composed, orchestrated,... | |
| Your favourite music movie? Rock Star | |
| Recommendation for detailed/analytical bookshelf speaker? For your taste/preferences you should be looking at loudspeakers with AMT or ribbon tweeters as others have mentioned. Martin Logan, GoldenEar, Ascend, Adam Audio (powered) are all highly regarded. A number of years ago I was curious about AMT twe... | |
| Your favourite music movie? Rocketman | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Bob Reynolds "Quartet" | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Chet Baker "Chet" | |
| Your favourite music movie? - Braveheart- Good Night and Good Luck | |
| Speaker recommendation thread (Organised by tiers of price) under $1000 - Omega Super 3i MonitorsThis one is for the SET/single-driver high-efficiency crowd. After living with them for a year I added an Omega sub for the obvious benefits a sub brings to the mix. I have them paired with a Decware SE84UFO. | |
| External Linear Power Supplies I don't know if this will help but I've powered my Qute EX DAC with an iFi Power and a Teddy Pardo. The Teddy Pardo was the better of the two. I heard no difference between the stock Chord power supply and the iFi Power.I've also powered my microR... |