newbee
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| Why does my system now have shrill top end. I'm sure someone has already discussed this possibility, but on two different occasions when your problem arose in my system it was as big a mystery to me as it is to you. I was able to eliminate the problem by addressing the dressing issue and in... | |
| What are the best loudspeakers under $4000 to re-create lifelike piano grannyring, As I recall you once used Silverline Bolero's which I have and am quite fond of. As I recall you modified your crossover, I assume to pull up the 'balance' in the mid-range. I'm curious, if you can recall their unmodified sound with th... | |
| What are the best loudspeakers under $4000 to re-create lifelike piano I don't think a lot about this any longer, but some food for thought -When do you think they will ever develope a recording process that will come even close to giving you a source accurate enough to judge a speaker's real ability to reproduce a p... | |
| Question I have no information on your situation upon which to base any recommendation. If you care to provide the dimensions of your room, the locations of doors and windows, a description of its furnishings, a few comments on where you would propose to ... | |
| What are the best loudspeakers under $4000 to re-create lifelike piano Before you evaluate your speakers for their piano recreation's ability try to attend a live performance in a recital hall (preferably), a concert hall, or even a jazz club. The first thing to note is the size of the room! Then note how loud (or s... | |
| Question FWIW, IMHO, even given the importance of matching your electronics to your speakers, matching the speakers to your room, as well as their set up requjirement is of equal or greater importance. Planners and electrostats require room placement, di... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I can believe this - I just spent half an hour posting and when I hit the post button it was lost, and guess who's sorry! Anyway - gs5556, Re your Schubert recommendation, until I heard Mackerras and the OAE doing the 9th (and 8th) I don't think ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados rvpiano, FWIW I'll contribute a bit, but since I (and many others) have already posted in the past to lists of best/favorites etc and I'm too old to just replicate those recommendations, I'm just going to post about music/performers/genre that I'm... | |
| Interconnect Length Are you connecting the phono cartridge directly to the phono stage of the pre-amp, or are you connecting to the output of a seperate phone stage?If the former I agree with the comment about 3ft. If the latter you could stretch it out a bit, but st... | |
| What should my next upgrade be? Your best experience I can really argue about replacing your speakers (the other changes are really 'fine tuning' changes which make a can make a difference, but not necessarily enough). The caveat to acquisition of different speakers - make sure that these speakers a... | |
| Questions from a Tube Preamp newbie 1) Some pre-amps are 'hard on tubes' - usually the manufacturers will acknowledge this and will recommend using only very rugged tubes (Audible Illusions and Audio Research come to mind. ) Under normal conditions with most tubed pre-amps you shoul... | |
| How important is the rack you use for your components IMHO an audio rack's contribution to audio is in improving control of the effect of vibrations on the components either in dissipating them (the vibrations) or isolating them (the components). Much of the effect is component dependent - turntables... | |
| Room Correction Consider using omni speakers. Considering that you do not place emphasis on listening from a fixed location they might be perfect for you. | |
| Soundstage, layering and tube differences jim, If you don't know the answer to your question, how will you know that anyone who answers really knows? Go figure.Anyway, the 'illusion from the harmonic distortion' is related to the difference between solid state devices which typically have... | |
| Soundstage, layering and tube differences Your observation about SED's vs Mullards IMHO falls right into the same observations that can be made about equipment in general. Stuff (including tubes) that have a 'full bottom end' more often than not obscures some of the information present in... |