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| What to consider with used Sota Sapphire?? A suspension table is supposed to be springy so I don't know what you can tell from just that, but it sure doesn't sound like this table has been treated with kindness. I would factor in the probabilities of major problems into the real purchase c... | |
| What CD player to buy? What is your budget? Personally, I can't relate to the terms "fancy or ultra-expensive". | |
| Older PURE CLASS-A Amplifiers Personally, if I were going to get an older Class A amp I would wait for a Threshold SA series 1 or 2 (both mono's) or a 3, depending on power requirements. The original SA3 is a real sweetie and a bargain at typical sales prices. Apart from that ... | |
| Help with Soundstage effect improvements Grubs4fishn, You're between a rock and a hard spot. You can't change your speakers much or, apparently your listening position, both of which are absolutely critical to good sound. What you might try is playing with toe in to avoid first reflectio... | |
| know of a great audio test CD? "Depth of Image" by Opus 3. | |
| Help with Soundstage effect improvements IMHO about 95% of good imaging/soundstage effects comes from the speaker/room interface - the other 5% is from fine tuning with choice of electronic's and cables/IC's. There has been a lot of discussion in this forum on proper speaker set up and r... | |
| DK Design VS-1 versus 300b sound Interesting. Oddly enuf I read these pages every day and I've notice no evidence of "a lot of Audiogoners who have replaced their tube seperates with the DK design". I have noticed a dealer or two who sez his customers did. I'm sure not tempted fr... | |
| What time do you wear? Since last posting to this thread I have started using an Eternamatic Kontiki (autowind) chronometer. First watch (other than my Sinn) that never needs a time adjustment - all I ever have to do is advance the date on non 31 day months. Built like ... | |
| dbx Expnders - 3bx, 5bx Very interesting discussion regarding compression - I had an early DBX which I used with a R2R for noise supression. Question, what percentage of audiophiles do you suppose really have equipment and a room in which you could play music uncompresse... | |
| DAC Recommendations Rec, When you describe the ECD as being a little forward do you mean somewhat bright or do you mean that there is some mid-range emphasis which brings the soundstage more forward as opposed to recessed or normal? | |
| Omnidirectional speakers. The future? I just had what is probably an absurd idea. There is a parallel thread which has created as much diverse opinion as this thread. In it folks are discussing the pros and cons of multi channel. Why not combine the two threads so we can discuss in a ... | |
| Super long speaker cables I knew I was supposed to post a question for Sean. Thanks.Sean, I know you will cover this but, since you're a SS guy, remember that some of us use Tube amps (which I assume was probably the greatest part of my problem.) :-) | |
| Omnidirectional speakers. The future? Opalchip, I agree with most of what you had to say about hearing what is on the recording unedited by the design of certain speakers types. And it was well said. BUT a Yamaha DSP or a DBX5bx? Boy, did you lose some ground there! :-)Just give me my... | |
| Where to put damping sheets? Kray, I'm sort of with you on this issue. I agree with Nrchy on room dampening but fail to see the analogy as it apply to components which usually benefit from non-resonance. If not so, perhaps someone could have/would have invented a tweek which ... | |
| Causes of long term listening fatigue? Wouldn't it be nice if we had some idea what Karman's electronics, including sources, were? Might also be nice to know what, if anything he has done about set up and taming reflections. Ditto room size. With that info we might be able to give his ... |