mrtennis
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| electrostats vs ribbon drivers hi johnk:i don't assume and my selection of 3000k was meant to suggest that there might be a peak in the lower treble.as i said, i have owned magnepans, and heard them many times iin other stereo systems. i have also heard other ribbon tweeters at... | |
| All Amps Sound the Same.... in addition to bach, i would include purcell, scarlatti,froeberger, and other composers who wrote harpsichord music during the baroque period as very helpful when thinking is the sole activity. | |
| Do powercords make a difference in sound? hi rvwear:when there is a blind or double blind test, statistics is used to evaluate the resultstatistics delas with probability, not certainty.when you are talking about knowledge, truth and certainty are required. a mathematical proof is require... | |
| electrostats vs ribbon drivers hi rodman:the statements you have quoted apply to many topics on this forum. in the future i will not repeat them. thanks for the heads-up. | |
| electrostats vs ribbon drivers how many who have auditioned both electrostatic-based and ribbon based designs prefer one or the other ?by the way, regarding my comment on the treble response of ribbon drivers, especially ribbon tweeters, what i consider bright or peaky, others ... | |
| All Amps Sound the Same.... hi frogman:thanks for the link. people are different in their reactions to music. i find the well tempered clavier very helpful when solving mathematical problems.the intricate harmony has an affinity to mathematics.granted, i may have an idiosync... | |
| Do powercords make a difference in sound? hi rwwear:a a blind test only does not reject the null hypothesis.proof requires deduction, not listening.proof requires mathematics or logic.what you call proof is not proof of certainty or truth.you cannot say something is true because you hear ... | |
| electrostats vs ribbon drivers i have ownend two different versions of magnepans and listened to many others at shows . i have heard the analysis speakers at shows and also at the importer's house. i used tubes on the maggies.i have many ribbons at shows and have found the treb... | |
| Magnepan 3.7's versus 20.1's? hi cwlondon:i think the stacked quad esls stomps on all magnepans, as far as creating a more realistic timbre and the quads , within their range, are less inaccurate. | |
| Do powercords make a difference in sound? I have discussed the subject of designing an amp with a fixed power cord or an iec. several have said that an iec degrades the sound, and a well designed permanently attached will provide superior sign. in fact, conrad johnson wasa using attachabl... | |
| All Amps Sound the Same.... hi frogman:does all music have to evoke an emotional response ?i think some music is cerebral in nature.have you listened to bach's harpsichord music ? if do, what emotional response do you experience?there is some harpsichord music with intricate... | |
| All Amps Sound the Same.... music is about the brain. there is plenty of music which is cerebral in nature, e.g., bach's well tempered clavier.music need not induce an emotional response to be enjoyable. | |
| All Amps Sound the Same.... hi russ69:you are right about ears as an instrument, so long as you acknowledge that what you hear does not constitute knowledge, and what you hear is an opinion.what you hear or what i hear cannot be proven.what one hears is neither true nor fals... | |
| Best steak to eat while listening to your rig? wat meat at your own risk. talk to a cradiac surgeon. i think medical practioners are genereally better sources of a good diet than others. | |
| All Amps Sound the Same.... the senses are unreliable. witnesses to an event often present different versions of an event.what you hear one day, you may not hear on another.there is a myriad of experiemnets in the psycholgy journals, which discuss the unreliability of percep... |