mrmb
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| $$$ vs music enjoyment Actusreus: Excellent point about being audiophiles and because of this, being motivated to "taste" new (to us) music! My son and I went to a fellow audiophile's place recently. We only met him a few weeks ago at our local audio shop. Although he o... | |
| $$$ vs music enjoyment Frogman: I concur with your comments. It seems that as I found in another thread: "How big is your matrix - how we bias or enjoyment" we have a concurrence trend in the making.I only know two professional musicians. Both play in symphonies and enj... | |
| How big of a difference do amps make? Atmasphere: Thanks for the heads-up. Ironically, I'm currently considering updating my speakers to the new "PX" panel configuration, the "Hot Rod" update and as you mentioned, to the Toroid II "Consummate" backplate update instituted in the last c... | |
| How big is your matrix - how we bias or enjoyment. Frogman: Bravo, I 2nd. ALL of your comments and sentiment!Introspection -- the understanding of one's self & motivations is indeed something that I feel is very important and work hard to continuously do.Among other positives, the ability to b... | |
| How big of a difference do amps make? Yes Charles1dad, my former amps with the 100 Watt/Ch. output were greatly underrated in terms of power output. Moreover, they didn't fit the "tubey" sound attributed to tubes that is assumed by some. Sonically, these push-pull behemoths resemble S... | |
| How big of a difference do amps make? Interesting observation Mbovaird: "Huge difference. Going from SS to tube is great if you have very efficient speakers. Otherwise, you will become frustrated quickly."I had the opposite experience. Switching from a 350w/ch Levinson 336 to a 100 w/... | |
| How big is your matrix - how we bias or enjoyment. Yep, we humans love tribalism & limiting the matrix. Doing so makes life easier.We randomly select groups to have faith in. And as such, limit our input & minimize our experiences to fit preconceived paradigms.Relationships are made, decis... | |
| High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz How does one obtain cables to audition? | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? And I was looking forward to going to my first RMAF this year. You need to hurry & send should a link to this post to the RMAF organizers & exhibitors alerting them to fact that their efforts are for naught. The audio holy grail components... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Shut the doors, turn out the lights & close the forum; it was good while it lasted -- the best equipment, based on history, logic & specifications has been identified! No need for further discussions! I've read a lot of head scratching, ja... | |
| Preamp or power amp has more impact to resolution? Over the past decade or so, I've upgraded all my sources, electronics and cables and my Soundlab M1's have never failed to amaze me. I suppose it starts with having speakers that do what you prefer and build around them. At least that's the way th... | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... This thread led to a Scotch odessey for my son & I. Prior to it, scotch wasn't on my adult beverage radar screen. So thanks to all for the impetus & the lightening of our wallets (grin)!I now own approx. 15 single malts. And my son, owns m... | |
| Audiokinesis/Soundlab listener request As a current S/L M1 owner, I'm interested in the results of your auditioning. As downsizing is probably in our not too distant future, SET amps & Duke's speakers are appealing especially when they're compared to the 200 lb. ea. CAT monoblocks ... | |
| External Hard Drive Search Frustration. Help I'm using internal drives in a dock. Specifically: http://www.newertech.com/products/voyagerq.phpThe drive I'm presently using is a Samsung Spinpoint 2tb. The drive & dock are silent. 5400rpm will be just fine as far as performance with the ad... | |
| Music Format, too many? which way to go? I believe that I use the best best of both worlds: PC audio with an USB Wavelength DAC & a Mac Mini Computer plus vinyl with a Galibier TT. It would be hard to choose only one path, but if I were a newbie, with a limited budget, PC audio using... |