mrtennis
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| Natural and Neutral could be boring .. i try to aply the law of the golden mean--listening to a stereo system should be a pleasant experience. of course that is highly idiosyncratic.i don't recall ever being bored when listening to music unless i did not like the music. it was a questi... | |
| Would you pay to listen? it seems silly to pay to listen to stuff--a bunch of inanimate objects. | |
| "What's Your Best Price?" as a seller, consider this hypothetical situation:a buyer offers a bid on the item than is less than you are willing to accept at the time.a) will you counter with a price lower than your asking price b) will you say the buyer's price is unaccepta... | |
| "What's Your Best Price?" hi steveaudio:the reason an item is sold , in mnay cases, is the owner doesn't like the component any more. obviously, it would be poor advretising to say that "i am selling the xyz amp because i don't like it". thus asking why an item is being so... | |
| Class D amps,bang for your buck ones i think a well designed class a amp is more pleasant to the ear than any class d amp, with the possible expection of the virtue audio, which has a tube front end.ice power sounds icy (LOL) | |
| Sony SCD-XA5400ES-Best SACD for under $10,000 hi tmsorosk:in what way is the sony preferred to the ayre.it has been sufggested that the cary sacd palyer has been preferred by one of the posters.what performance parameters do you like over the ayre and other players ?i would think that having ... | |
| Sony SCD-XA5400ES-Best SACD for under $10,000 i have yet to be told why the sony 5400 is preferred to the ayre sacd player.the preference for the cary, i would conjecture is the somewhat tube-like, euphonic coloration that the sony lacks, or is there another reason ?i may have a chance to pur... | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players lets talk pizza. i don't like pizza with any sp[ice.i make pizza myself. i use a dough i buy in a pizza place--whole wheat or the usual white-flour-based dough, freshly cut tomatoes and fresh chees. that's it.so, here again, consensus means nothin... | |
| how close in sound can a tube and ss amp sound ? my comments regarding the problematic nature of ss amps in the range 1000 hz to 5000 hz is not a function of power rating, or speaker--power requirements.i agree with ralph's explantion concerning odd order harmonics.i wonder if it would be possib... | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players the so-called dozens of great cd players are considered "great" because of consensus, i presume, which in and of itself does not imply greatness.if the "great" cd [layers of the world are great for some other reason, it's a mystery to me.the minor... | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players the problem with any comparison, is the number of entries.it is not useful to report on the preferred component when only 5 are represented and the number of listeners is small.these tests are just entertainment.a wise person would not base a purc... | |
| how close in sound can a tube and ss amp sound ? why do some ss amps seem to perform poorly in the range 1000 hz to 5000 hz ?they often sound like there exists a peak somewhere in the above mentioned region.whereas, many tube amps, sound more pleasing in the aforementioned range.could it be that... | |
| What makes the Bloom around instruments . . . i think bloom represents a balance between fundamental and harmonics.using a violin or acoustic guitaras an example, bloom would exist when the wood body of the instruments was present as one observed the plucking of strings.i don't think bloom is... | |
| Is this the END of DAYS for the high end CD player is the ps audio pwt a poor man's server ? if so cd and high res dvr still has viability.i use the pwt fed into my minimax dac (yes, $750 and chinese). i prefer it to my ps audio pwd.the dac accepts high rez formats. | |
| how close in sound can a tube and ss amp sound ? thanks again for the explanations, especially the problem of odd order harmonics and the advantage of some tube products which are , allegedly, designed to minimize odd order distortion.am i to assume that the relationship between magnitudes of ev... |