noble100
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| Magnepan LRS compared to the .7 or the 1.7i ? Hello jamesmagnot, This guy’s review made you decide to buy a pair of LRS?https://youtu.be/DxZvzWEf-m8 I’ve not yet heard the LRS in person but have been reading all the reviews I can find to learn more about them. This guy’s review was the most ... | |
| Most annoying song, period. almarg: "I always thought of "Surfin’ Bird" as a satire, and found it to be kind of funny in a likable sort of way. Although I don’t know how serious or satirical it was intended to be." Hello Al, I’ve always thought the same about "Surfin’ Bi... | |
| Most annoying song, period. Absolutely ANY Yoko Ono song, EVER!ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpX1wBrCymoTim | |
| Powered sub-woofer best for $300 in Us Here's 7 other options for $300:https://www.audiorumble.com/best-subwoofer/under-300/ Pay attention to how deep each sub is rated at meaning how deep, measured in Hz, the sub can play. Most recorded music contains bass as deep as 20 Hz w... | |
| TUBE or SS PATHS I believe it’s just a personal choice that is initially made by amp designers, about whether their goal is accuracy or a certain flavored sound recipe that is targeted toward a particular segment of audio equipment consumers. We as consumers then... | |
| Do people know what they are missing? Hello vintage_health, Nice post with a good moral to the tale! I generally agree with the philosophy of 'whatever floats your boat' and that we all have our own priorities which are typically reflected in our music systems as well as other pe... | |
| GIK Room Treatment Questions and Advice for Magnepans Hello gammonit_2000, Congratulations on your new pair of Magnepan LRS and their excellent positioning! Good job on speaker choice and adapting them to your room. It also seems like you made a good choice of Bryton pre and amp to drive them.... | |
| Class D audio vs James Romeyn twoch:"class will never be as good as A or a well done AB or a great tube amp." Hello twoch, Spoken like someone who just doesn't realize what they don't know. The many affordable high quality class D amps currently on the market are a great... | |
| Do people know what they are missing? vintage_health: "Am I that out of touch with the present day that all folks want is a 192kb encoded mp3 played through tiny ear buds?"vintage_health, Unfortunately, anyone who describes mp3 as 192kb encoded instantly demonstrates they are inde... | |
| Things that make you go, "Hmmmmm...." Speaking of cars, McIntosh is the Buick 4-door sedan of audio.Tim | |
| Help with an AV processor Hey wemfan, In my opinion, good quality bass reproduction makes music and HT (home theater movies and TV) sound a lot better. You'll notice more improvements than just the deep bass from about 20-50 Hz that your KEF LS50s are unable to reprodu... | |
| Things that make you go, "Hmmmmm...." millercarbon, If you're looking fort an older CD player that sounds good, originally sold for $1K but sells used for about $100 and is as cool as a lava lamp, you may want to consider a Sony DVP-S7700. Check out how the front display moves do... | |
| Things that make you go, "Hmmmmm...." Hello millercarbon, I just bought a Lumin D2 streamer paired with an 18 TB NAS that now contains about 20,000 albums, about a third are CD quality and the rest are hi-res ranging from 24 bit/96 kHz FLAC to 1 bit DSD WAV files. I use an Ipad, ... | |
| Help with an AV processor Hello wemfan, I'm glad you got it up and running. I think any improvements in sound quality, by using a separate expensive AV preamp/processor, would be highly unlikely no matter which exact unit you used and how much it costs. Even if there... | |
| Help with an AV processor Hello wemfan, Did you do Step#5 on my procedures? Under the Setup Menu, go into Audio Processing and then into Speaker Configuration- You’ll then see a diagram on your tv of a 5.1 system with 5 speakers, a sub and a guy sitting on a couch. Then fo... |