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| How to divide up $4,500, Amp/Speakers I. too, have the Tonian TL-D1s and agree with 'fast, detailed and transparent' but 'in your face' can apply to any speaker when not mated with the proper amp, unless they are smooth and wooly to begin with. Who would want that? The Tonians are mas... | |
| Best U.S. made integrated tube amp under $2500? Don't forget Decware. | |
| Integrated for Harbeth Small Room System I've mentioned this elsewhere but Tony Manasian of Tonian Labs uses an old Audiolab 8000A to demo his speakers. And they sound wonderful. Its not that just any old amp will do, but he stressed that that old Audiolab had only one transistor per cha... | |
| Burson Integrated amps No, I haven't as of yet. After installing some HiFi Tuning Fuses in my 'interim' integrated, the sound got so good that I decided to wait until all the funds are in place. I'm still going to get it and if you decide to, check out partsconnexion.co... | |
| High End Audio and Your hearing as you get older I think I just may get my hearing tested to see where the gaps are. This exchange we've had makes me wonder if we've all been mistakenly mislead in our appreciation of certain things audio. A lot of reviewers cite HF rolloff or softening at the hi... | |
| High End Audio and Your hearing as you get older Djohson54, I was being facetious. No, make that snarky since I don't believe test tones are the end all when it comes to measurements on what and how we hear. You are right that with a great set of headphones, I could narrow down the actual limits... | |
| High End Audio and Your hearing as you get older Yes, you're right. Here are the graphs and it wasn't a typo:http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58868 | |
| High End Audio and Your hearing as you get older On another note, I came across another graph showing that hand claps, footsteps, keys jingling, cymbals, piccolos, clarinets, bass tubas and female voices all knocking on the 15Khz door. Maybe I'm just hearing part of them in recordings or not, bu... | |
| High End Audio and Your hearing as you get older Unsound,I stand corrected. And humbly so. A quick look at some graphs clearly shows that only the pipe organ can play a fundamental frequency to about 15Khz! Everything else barely hits 5Khz. But it's the harmonics that can extend things to beyond... | |
| High End Audio and Your hearing as you get older Wow, now I'm going to sell all my equipment as I "can't" hear anything from 14Khz on up. But there is more to test signals than that. There has to be. I can hear instruments that play at higher frequencies on a regular basis but can't hear the fri... | |
| down firing or front firing sub? The only reason I'd avoid a down firing sub is if someone lived below me. Aside from that, both can sound good. Taste and budget are going to be your final qualifiers. | |
| Burson Audio has a new Preamp-DAC-headamp 3 in 1 Yes yes. When contacting Burson about 1/2 a year ago regarding their newest integrated and how they should build a DAC, they mentioned this unit. I just may wait on the integrated and get this instead. Srajan at 6moons has one on his waiting list. | |
| High End Audio and Your hearing as you get older Unsound,I believe I didn't explain it correctly and misled you. Its not great gaps in my hearing that my brain is filing in. That point was to illustrate a bigger level of impairment which I don't have. You are spot on with the remainder: the leve... | |
| High End Audio and Your hearing as you get older At 56, my hearing ability has suffered as evidenced by my inability, at times, to hear someone talking directly to me in a noisy environment. But put me in front of a system and all bets are off concerning the limits of my hearing. Just like speed... | |
| solid state vs tubes I've heard both very good tube systems and very good SS systems sound great. They're just coming to grips with the solution from two different angles. The better ones do tend to sound the same despite their different starting points. Its only our ... |