newbee
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| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Byron, IMHO we simply disagreed on the use of the term neutral as it applies to this hobby and it appears that we just continue to do so. My ignorance, or inflexibility, perhaps. So be it. I've said far more than I ever intended. BTW i never thoug... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon, you say that 'neutrality is not an all or nothing thing'. We disagree! At the risk of being redundant, neutrality is the end result of combining many components of sound, including absolute resolution and perfect frequency response. Rather ... | |
| Monitors For Near Field Low Volume Listening If I had your room and was restricted to low volumes in the near field I can think of few speakers I would enjoy more than the original Rogers LS3/5a. I loved mine! Lots of my friends moved on to them after they heard mine. They were designed for ... | |
| How do you judge your system's neutrality? Bryon, I don't know why your use of the word 'neutrality' bugs me so, but it does and I hope you will forgive my deviation from neutrality and sort of reiterate what I said in my last post. I have a bit of a challenge for you. How will you know wh... | |
| Why so negative about McIntosh speakers? Al, As usual you are right. I've got a head cold and my brain is all stuffed up. No it is not a perpetual 'cold', but it can seem that way! :-) | |
| no low end st70 I think Trelja pretty much hits all of the points. Especially the power issues and the impedence matching ones as well. If your amp is biased properly (and this is very important) and you still have poor bass response, you may have to just conside... | |
| Small speakers...big sound?? One of the 'problems' you may encounter with bookshelf speakers is that even if the mids and highs were perfect the reduced bass would serve to emphasize the mids and highs making them seem bright or at least thin thru the mids. Many folks wanting... | |
| Why so negative about McIntosh speakers? Foster 9, One of the problems with posting here is that we are told to seperate paragraphs into shorter groups of sentences or single sentences so that folks can more easily understand. You must consider that the first two paragraphs in my post mu... | |
| Tape in + tape monitor = passive preamp? I think not. The hall mark of a passive pre-amp is the obvious. It can attenuate a line level signal but it cannot amplify it. In your set up you still have a pre-amp amplification circuit between your source input and the amp. An anp section of a... | |
| Why so negative about McIntosh speakers? LOL. There are a lot of fine speakers that get tons on criticism in these pages. But since you don't own them and probably haven't heard them, you just assume that it is all warranted. I've read folks talking negatively about speakers they have 1)... | |
| Improving on the Sonata IIIs, which speakers? Blindjim, I was told that the price was going up when I bought mine - but not THAT much, but as to value, I'm not so sure. If I had that kind of money to spend I really don't know what I'd spend it on other than the Boleros. I'm sure they are out ... | |
| Improving on the Sonata IIIs, which speakers? Bolero's! They only look alike. :-) | |
| McIntosh C33 image question Weak tubes on the right side of the pre-amp. Try sitching those tubes with tubes on the left side and see if anything happens, or if you've got'em, plug in some spares on the right side and see if anything changes. If you haven't changed your set ... | |
| unused inputs/outputs - safe to short? I don't think shorting plugs (or caps) will have any effect on the effects of cross talk in your pre-amp. Now if your tuner, for example, is off and you are hearing music from a radio station, you might get some help from shorting plugs. Might. I ... | |
| Looking for Wagner recommendations Levine and the MET, recommended by Learsfool, would be my recommendation, but if you are looking for the really extroverted chunks in big 'audiophile approved' sound there are probably better ones. But Levine is fundamentally an opera conductor wh... |