o_holter
Responses from o_holter
| There Is Nothing Like the Real Thing - Our State of the Art The OP’s questions are good, although ’the real thing’ is slippery. In this case it seems to apply mainly to acoustic music in good sounding concert halls, classical music perhaps. So what about rock for example? I go to rock concerts to get the ... | |
| Recommendation Request: Headphone Amp/DAC combo I would separate the investment. Get a good headphone amp first. All the integrated units I have tried so far (Teac NT-505, Tascam DA-3000, etc) sound poor on headphones, compared to my Audiotailor Jade OTL tube headphone amp. Get something simila... | |
| Dynaudio Evoke 20 vs. Totem Signature One vs. Acoustic Revival Adalante 3 I gradually got tired of the Dynaudio Consequence. Even if the speaker was good and innovative - a sybaric double bass solution at the top, with drivers arranged from larger to smaller downwards to the highest treble - at the bottom! A speaker de... | |
| Dynaudio Evoke 20 vs. Totem Signature One vs. Acoustic Revival Adalante 3 The Dynaudio Consequence speaker was quite extreme. I used a Krell FPB600 amp, the best in class at the time, but even this was not enough to get it to wake up fully and dance and sing. It had been developed with an in-house 1200 watt amp I believ... | |
| Dynaudio Evoke 20 vs. Totem Signature One vs. Acoustic Revival Adalante 3 That was quite a mouthful! I only know Dynaudio speakers, especially their former flagship Consequence, which I owned for ten years. These sound best with a LOT of power. If I were you, judging from your sound preferences, I would think about a ... | |
| What is Wrong? Probably a tube defect. Have you tried swapping the tubes left / right channel? | |
| Judging speakers to purchase. soix - something the speakers are actively doing, vs effortless performance - good point, I agree. When my system sounds good, I don't think it is "doing" a lot, I just get into the music. Trouble is, there is a huge middle zone. Music is quite g... | |
| Preamp suggestions for Atma-Sphere Class D Monoblocks @srama thanks! «Gravitating towards subjectively great sounding gear « - same here. But realism also. Clear as mud ; - ) I hope the amps will be a great match with your Totem speakers. I have Atma-Sphere tube monoblocs, and am very happy with th... | |
| Half-Speed Masters - are they worth double dipping? I need to recheck my half speed LPs, like CBS mastersound Pink floyd: Wish you were here and Joe Jackson Night and day (mofi). My comments are in the "yes, but..." direction. A mixed bunch. On the other hand, I have generally been very satisfied w... | |
| Active Speakers Don't Sound Better Audioengine A5+ is one of the better non expensive active speakers that I own. They now sound quite well integrated (drivers / amp), but needed much time to break in, at first I did not like them. They are also well designed, benefitting from a bi... | |
| Active Speakers Don't Sound Better @phusis - my experiments have been very simple. No special filtering or DSP. Mainly with desktop or small monitors. I just unplug the speaker without the amp from the speaker with the amp. This is a speaker-level connection. Then I plug the speake... | |
| Why all or most audiophiles are men? @roxy54 - "nonsense"? I don’t think so. Look at the treatment of artists like Joni Mitchell. It is not so long ago that there was a division between "artists" - and then, a step below - "female artists". After having written almost exclusively abo... | |
| Active Speakers Don't Sound Better Erik and others - maybe you have a comment. I have not tried top of the line active speakers. Only mid level and below. But my experience is this: take the 'passive' speaker from a pair of active speakers. Instead of the output from the amp in th... | |
| Why all or most audiophiles are men? Hi Pindac - thanks for a good description. For some of us. But what about a more 'economical' explanation? Women are absent in audiophile circles not because they perform worse than the men but because they are downvalued by the men. | |
| What the Best Dac have you heard or owned. How could you tell it was that good. My analog chain is top level but the digital is mid level only. In my system, the best sounding DAC so far is the Teac NT-505. No surprise: it sounds better than my little Topping e30ii dac (at almost 10x the price). What IS a surprise, is that bo... |