mr_hosehead
Responses from mr_hosehead
| Paradigm Studio v2 VS. Vandersteen 2Ce Signature ? It all depends... On things like: Are you actually talking Paradigm Studio v2s or v3s? (Yup, some do think there's a difference and not always that v3s are superior). On how old you are ('cause high-freq sensitivity does steadily drop after ~30, '... | |
| HDCD question..... ??? From what I was always taught, if your Rotel has the capability to handle the HDCD processing then you could use practically any player and still get the benefits of HDCD (as long as you connect them correctly). If "HDCD-ready" means the chip/... | |
| B&W JM Labs or Paradigm Signature S8.....Help? Without knowing or being able to control all of the variables - the most important being our hearing vs. yours - it's going to be hard to do more than offer encouragement to A/B as many of these as you can. Any input you get is really just persona... | |
| Eagles Concert Guitar Player Apparently there are still two sides to everything? The interview I read last year had Felder suing Fry & Henley over royalties he claimed he was due - the numbers were in the upper six-figure range. It was supposedly not a case of getting "fi... | |
| Test CD for positioning speakers and subwoofer Ditto on the Rives CD - grand shtuff. Though it does become a love/hate thing, you know? I'd gone through some other discs & done the (trivial, in retrospect) calibration to the RS meter by hand, etc. Then I broke down and got Rives and got a ... | |
| best used amp around $2000 for B&W N802s There are a couple of pairs of Odyssey Stratos Extreme Monoblocks in classifieds here right now. Both are asking around $2,000. Don't know if you've ever auditioned Odyssey, but those would give you ~300W per channel of class A/AB goodness. Worth ... | |
| Speaker Wire for a non-anal listener Spades or bananas? I used to be spades, now bananas. I'd originally been talked into spades being the better connection, but further research kinda blurs all that? Good bananas work well, are convenient, etc. Wire? Practically everything will be O... | |
| Changing amps? Hmmmm - by "a set of JM Lab 906 speakers" do you mean a pair of 906s or an HT setup (of more than 2, as in 5 or 7)? If you just do stereo w/ a pair that would make a bit of a difference in which way to try (at least to me).One of the things to may... | |
| biggest difference...speaker cable or IC's? Unless your current cables are somehow pretty deficient I don't know that you'll hear much real difference. For starters, I'll cast another vote for leaving the balanced ICs as-is - unless they're actually coathangers you're unlikely to find signi... | |
| Paradigm Signature S-2, S-4:Good, bad, indifferent S2, S4 good.I stumbled onto a listen last year - had gone to my favorite audioholics emporium looking for something else. They said "come on downstairs and give a listen", and I wound up grinning ear to ear. I'd kinda thought the Sig series was a ... | |
| Why "Cryo" anything? "Cryo treatments absolutely do great things sonically for many (not all) audio pieces (results based on double blind studies)."Now this is what I'm looking for! As I've said, I don't do the cryo 'cause I haven't been able to find any real publishe... | |
| 2 way vs 3 way / Monitors vs. Floorstanding C123666 - well, whaddya know! I'm pretty much USDA-certified Clueless and didn't know anything about the Omega Grande 6 or 8's. I'll certainly keep an open mind on these things, 'cause I've never heard 'em (doh! if I'd never heard about 'em I cert... | |
| Why "Cryo" anything? Anuice. Now there's one reason to cryo... | |
| Delima Uh... what're you using for that center speaker? Just going by everything you can read here & elsewhere, getting the best match between the center & your soon-to-be new mains is kinda important. If there's a natural match from that manufac... | |
| Why "Cryo" anything? Sorry, Newbee - apparently someone got up on the wrong side of the bed today? I read your post and didn't find anything all that inflamatory in there...I also read quite a bit of the CryogenicsInternational stuff. I found it mildly interesting, no... |