newbee
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| Legacy Classics and bottom end? Bloated bass is far more likely due to speaker design and set up in your room than the effect of any other single component. If you're not confident you have the best set up, why not ID your speakers, the size of your room, and the present placeme... | |
| Buy an Audio Research SP10 MkII or an SP11 MkII ? Growlar, FWIW, and as sort of a counter point to John's comments on the differences between the SP10II and the LS5, if you are really anal about hearing the last enth of detail and extension his advise is worthwhile. But if you want to listen to m... | |
| Many questions tube/solid state amps You are running your system about the same amount of time that I do. I have all tubes from start to finish. Unless you are disabled I assume that much of the time your system is running your listening is on a casual basis, i.e. your not sitting in... | |
| Buy an Audio Research SP10 MkII or an SP11 MkII ? The SP11 was too cool, clinical if you will, for me. I've been using my SP10II for over 20 years and nothing else has tempted me. Tubes are an issue, you need quiet and rugged tubes. | |
| Do we suffer our music? Simple answer to your 1st question - I often change components out of boredom - gives me something to experiment with for a few days and sometimes I find something that significantly changes my system (better or worse). Being cheap, I spend far mo... | |
| Help - I've got an Ocean in my Phono Stage Well, its not on Lp (forgive me for bringing it up) but if you want to hear whales try Hovhaness' "And God Created Great Whales". Very atmospheric w/whale songs. Accompanied by an excellent Mysterious Mountain. Gerald Schwartz, Seattle SO on Delos. | |
| Sonic Frontiers to Conrad Johnson . I'm glad you have sourced your problem. I discovered the same reason for lack of bass with Quad 63's some years ago. Couldn't stand them, took them off their stands, put them on the floor and they became a "full" range speaker! Mid/upper bass suck... | |
| Help - I've got an Ocean in my Phono Stage I'm not really familar with the PS-1 but from what you have said it sounds like at max gain you may be hearing the units noise floor. I assume when you back off the gain the noise goes away. If this assumption is correct you should consider gettin... | |
| Burned out Audiophile - Trying to Find some Zen Rich, Its a hobby, its not the holy grail. Focus on music and when that and fly fishing, or downhill skying (etc) get boring, you can always take up knitting. :-) | |
| After Quad ESL's? FWIW, I have passed thru Acoustats, Quad 63's (5 years of use, they are still in my closet), Paragon Jubilee Jems (think Dynaudio Contour 3.3 with better bass and resolution), and most recently Tyler Acoustics Linbrook Signature systems. The reaso... | |
| Spikes and added weight for subwoofer performance? Rives, at the frequencies involved with sub woofers, how much lateral movement do you think it would take to disturb (distort) the soundwave? I'd tend to agree with your implied conclusion that lack of coupling would cause deterioration if we were... | |
| Colorizing The Sound I can't recall seeing any provisions for adding an equalizer to the DK integrated amp. If I'm correct you would have to insert it between the source and the amp, but you have two sources....If I'm wrong, get an equalizer and put it an a tape loop ... | |
| fuller sound at lower volumes In view of all of the recommendations for new electronic's, let me elaborate on my initial recommendation. First, if you had full range speakers I would be the first to agree with getting an equalizer or an integrated such as the Mac with both ton... | |
| fuller sound at lower volumes A sub would be far more influential in getting a "fuller, richer, deeper sound" at lower volume than getting a new amp. | |
| Sound Insulation- how much can it help? Not to rain on your parade but what you want is why folks buy their own homes. Even if you were able to reduce the volume of the highs/mids that pass thru the walls by using soundproofing materiels the bass waves are still going to pound that kid'... |