newbee
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| speaker help please, have Perraux pre amp and amp Well I'm not familar with your speakers but I'm very familar with your amp and preamp (I've owned the full Perreaux stack - 2l50, SM3, and TU3). I would be very careful in buying new speakers, especially very revealing ones. You may find your elec... | |
| What sonic improvements with a high end pre-amp Depends what you are trying to accomplish. Many would consider your SP14 to be on the cold side of neutral so if you're looking to warm up your system a pre-amp change could help. If you've voiced your system around the SP14 and you like it's tone... | |
| Does anyone out there have a liquid system I've read your other posts on this subject and can relate to your frustrations, however given the various known attributes which system components have, its what you do with them that will give you the sound you want. Its a long trip for most of u... | |
| Proposal - lets share our treasures Good idea, but tough project. In order for it to be really worth while it should be archival in nature so folks could use it as a reference and for that to work you would have to break it down in catagories so if someone wanted pop they wouldn't h... | |
| What`s with the Hyperion HPS 938 An interesting question, the answer to which I suspect has less to do with the speakers themselves than the folks who buy them based on reviews with out regard to how they might actually sound in their room with their equipment. When they get the ... | |
| 1970's Audio Research Equipment, worth having? I agree with Nsgarch that in the late 80's ARC made changes in going to hybrids...BUT i will not cede that this was an advancement. :-)I'm not up to speed on ARC's amps. The only one I've ever owned was the D115II - I never warmed up to it for var... | |
| ARC Reference 2 MkII Preamp white noise levels My gut reation to you situation is that you have a pre-amp with high gain, and amp with high sensitivity and/or very efficient speakers and you are hearing the noise floor of your pre-amp line stage. I recently got some higher efficiency speakers ... | |
| speaker that project mids farther out into room FWIW, I've heard that horns do this quite well. The only horns I have ever owned (Altec 19's) certainly did, they put the soundstage out in front of the speakers. Very interesting effect. They have been out of production for many years however and... | |
| Is my setup mid-fi or hi-fi? Marco, that was a pretty big box you were standing on. :-)Slov Dream, Great system. Now get the best CDP you can afford but which will leave you with enuf money to buy lot's of music. The music is where its really at! | |
| Cables-how can you be sure of authenticity? Ben, I've heard quite a few cables but I'm far from any kind of an authority. What my experience has been, with my modest stuff, is that some cables that I have listened to initially have that "wow" factor. You know, that "I'm hearing detail I've ... | |
| Cables-how can you be sure of authenticity? "not blown away by it's performance".Why would you expect to be blown away? Given any two (or more) high quality traditionally designed cables of the same length you would have to have highly revealing equipment, good ears, and spend some time to ... | |
| What was that smell? Siblance is fine - I usually use interstation noice from a tuner - its constant and you don't have much noise from the mid-range driver to distract you. Good luck. | |
| What was that smell? Sounds like fried tweeter to me. Put your ear close to the tweeters with something hissy on with the volume up and see what you hear. | |
| Very Small Desktop Speakers I just bought some small Paradigm speakers for about $250 for my desk. Sound just fine to me - they are warm and not etched. Solid mid-range. Good build. | |
| Moving from mid-fi to hi-fi -- Imaging questions To set up your speakers properly you need a sources with which you are totally familar. When your system reproduces these recordings properly you're done (although you can always revisit set up for fine tuning). Recordings which don't sound right ... |