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| Mid sized room -Full range vs Monitor FWIW rooms which are dimensionally challenged are not always more of a problem for full range speakers than monitors. It depends on where the nulls and nodes appear in your room and where you end up placing the speakers. Some rooms can have substa... | |
| effect of tubes in cd players Mr T, How do you define small? Perhaps in another persons experience and with their expectations they would feel that the same sound difference should be described as large. Can you give us a point of reference so we can understand your subjective... | |
| question on pwr cords Got a question for the 'power cord' experts. Is perhaps the reason that I have not been able to hear a meaningful difference in different heavy guage PC's due to the adequacy of the power supplies in my amps, pre amps, etc or is that not an issue? | |
| musicianiship--when is it bad or good ? Mr T, A challenge for you, time to put your money where your mouth is.Pretend that you have just attended a performance of Mahler's 9th symphony. You also have a score. You have heard this symphony many times by many conductors. You are a very kno... | |
| musicianiship--when is it bad or good ? If this 'pianist' empties the hall its bad. If he fill the hall its good, if your gauge for good, better or best is attendance.Personally I set my own standards for good, better and best, so for you to gain value from my comments about what is 'be... | |
| newbie question on TUBE gears. Yes it is OK to mix SS pre-amp and tubed amp. Not usual but certainly OK and as far a matching it can be much easier. You replace tubes based on usage. Normally power tubes last from anywhere between 1500 and 3000 hours (depending on amp design) a... | |
| Warm and Detailed S.S. Amp? Marco, Thanks for the description. Its as if you read my mind when you mentioned the B edition (I knew where one was available) and the 6922 tube - don't need more 6922 based audio products (although I was scrounging around my stash for a new cpd ... | |
| I want to re-introduce this subject. Jeeze, Your got a remote volume control and you've got a problem with finding the 'correct' playback level? What kind of an audiophile are you! :-)FWIW, IMHO, finding the correct level is totally dependent on the level of distortion on the recordi... | |
| Warm and Detailed S.S. Amp? Marco, Can you tell me more about the Cary SLP. I recently acquired the 'matching' SLM50BmkII's and was wondering if the '50' would be additive warmth wise (not a good thing for me), more neutral, or just plain synergetic. Have you used it with an... | |
| question on pwr cords Tvad, Thanks for the advise. I do just that but I think that the changes might be subtle enuf to be obscured by the 2d order harmonics of all those tubes in my systems. Besides its more fun to change tubes than PC's. :-) | |
| question on pwr cords Tplavas, I wasn't being sarcastic, but I will comment on your last sentence. It is not, or at least IMHO should not be, a matter of whether or not one 'believes' that PC's make a difference. A person should simply be able to clearly hear a differe... | |
| Looking for CD player with volume control? Check out the Wadia 302 it not only has remote VC it has adjustible output to match your amps input sensitivity. Written up by Soundstage so you can read a review. I use mine with a tubed PP amp and its the best sound I've had in my hose to date. ... | |
| A question regarding "tubes" Maybe its time for you to think outside the box a bit. First I doubt that you will ever successfully optomize one system for both digital and analog, at least I haven't. Up until recently the digital always took second place. Until recently. Short... | |
| question on pwr cords Tplavas, I have to say that I'm amazed at your aural accuity! Just how does the difference that you can detect between a 1.5 and a 2 meter PC of ths same brand and construction manifest itself? What is it that you hear that is different? Do you th... | |
| opinions on 2nd system Sounds like a good match - the Spica's are detailed and image well, the 1700 is on the warm side of neutral, has all of the controls for playing with tone to match your set up and listening conditions, and best of all (I assume) its cheap. Now if ... |