ngjockey
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| System Gain, Volume, and component matching? By comparison, the JC1's are moderately sensitive with the range from 0.75 to 1.5. Lower being louder. The Maggies are on the low end of the scale and the CDP is twice the standard. You already know all that. What you might not be taking into acco... | |
| Bent Audio TAP? While the TAP doesn't look anything like the NOH or anything else, it sounds virtually identical. Much more versatile for HT. Was over at John's a few months ago and replacement for NOH was just waiting for final aesthetic touches. Lord knows how ... | |
| Dual duty and LOUD I don't think you'll find anything new that compares to the Kappa 9's for under 5K. You do have the power to drive Apogees/Analysis or Maggies which will be smoother but still prefer to be fairly loud. Neither has the bass you're used to and might... | |
| Accurate vs Musical Here's another view to add to the confusion. I used to have amps that drew images with razor sharp edges and I thought they were great until they were eventually replaced with ones that weren't quite as precise but tied everything together into a ... | |
| Have I forgotten what music sounds like? What you describe sounds like the resonance of ported speakers or room interaction. I'm guessing. | |
| Music volume? What about your sound level? I just try to get to "realistic" volume levels. That is what I would imagine the singer and/or instruments would sound like from my imaginary seating position. My favourite seat is about 50' from the stage which is much more than my real seat from... | |
| Sonic Frontiers Line 3 and Power Condtioners Tried a SFL2, which the Line 3 was based on, with balanced AC (60-/60+) from an inexpensive industrial transformer I got off EBay and the immediate improvement in sound was astonishing for a tweak. Literally, within five notes, my jaw dropped. | |
| CDP clicks between tracks.and at the begininning?? If you're referring to your Talk CDP, I have the same and have never heard a click. I did remove faulty RC chip from socket (only socket near front) and use front panel switches only.It's possible that many transports utilize a filter/muting relay... | |
| Blues recommendations anyone? There are so many styles of blues that it's impossible to generalize. There's Chicago blues by artists like Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon. Delta blues ... There's acoustic, electric, piano, harp and full band.If you're coming from rock, Stevie Ray... | |
| Infinity IRS Sigma As far as vertical biamping vs dual bridged monoblock, depends on the bias of the amps and impedance of speakers. Class A amps, in order to stay in class A, should drive above 4 ohms and bridging only increases A/B power, albeit by a factor of 4 (... | |
| High priced power cable what about the romex Since preamps don't have tone controls anymore, we have to do something. | |
| The Future: No More Shiny Discs. Who Benefits? Audiophiles would NOT benefit. If online distribution becomes standard, then MP3's and it's compression might become the only way to find rare recordings. I've noticed that stores like Future Shop and Best Buy have been downsizing their CD stock o... | |
| step down transformer recommendation 100v to 120v You can try marine distributors but be careful about the specs. A single core 3.6 KVA might be half the currrent as a dual core 3.8 KVA. | |
| Infinity IRS Sigma I think your second system will become your first. The Macs should drive them easily. People conditioned to soft domes usually think EMITs sound bright because they expect roll-off. Definately hi-end from the folks that started it. | |
| It is said that for floorstanding type of... Nothing to do with floorstanding but good, tight bass takes bucks. Bigger is better but bass is hard to do right. |