o_holter
Responses from o_holter
| 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... | |
| Your Ultimate Phono Preamp: Which One Would You Choose? Aesthetix Io is hard to beat, especially the Eclipse version. I was lucky to find a basic version for a fair price used, twenty years ago, and liked it so well that I upgraded to Eclipse and two power supplies. This was costly, but I have no regre... | |
| Thumper’s Mother Or - be nice, especially when you are critical. Critical listening is what this forum is about. Most of the good advice I have received over the years has come from members with long-term hands on experience with a component or system arrangement... | |
| Thumper’s Mother I join the thumb up crowd, thanks @uncledemp Behaving is not an attack on free speech. Audiogon, for me and many others, is more than a marketplace. It is a forum, a community. I have got much good advice, and even some friends, over the years.... | |
| Which has a greater influence on sound quality, the amp or the preamp? @atmasphere wrote "you hear distortion as tonality" Could you explain? Thanks! | |
| The Horror To me, the most interesting thing about systems is that they all sound different. I try to identify the difference, before I make any judgement regarding the overall sound. Recently I listened to the big (and beautiful) Italian floorstanders at my... | |
| TEAC UD-701 vs NT-505 vs ? My Teac NT-505 has run trouble-free for four years. It does its job 'just fine', although it doesn't outperform my analog playback chain. Like others, I've found that it sounds very good with (native) DSD files. With DSD the volume is bypassed whi... | |
| Why all or most audiophiles are men? How do we "know" that biology decides? Fifty years ago this was believed also in the case of "race" and music. What about social conditioning? We live in a very strongly gender-divided society, not least in the US. Perhaps time to wake up from the... | |
| Looking for cable recommendations for sennheiser HD800s I hope you get a good cable solution. I used the HD600 for some years, and got a balanced cable for it (to my OTL headphone amp) which was a plus. But we never became close friends, I found the sound closed in and the comfort poor. Next, I changed... | |
| Dynaudio Confidence C1 MKI treble I had the Dynaudio Consequence with Esotar tweeters (and liked them), but they were extremely power hungry. So at lower volume they could sound rolled off at the top, even with a Krell Fpb600. And at suitable (loud) volume the neighbours complained. | |
| Speakers On Wheels? There is also the carpet trick - remove spikes and push the speaker on to a carpet. Then, you can drag it. Whatever you do, get help, be careful with your back as well as the speakers. | |
| For those familiar with Sonus Faber Where would you place the Elipsa in the Sonus Faber hierarchy? I heard them at a friend's place, and was impressed, but I have not heard the models mentioned above. | |
| Looking for cable recommendations for sennheiser HD800s If you have a headphone amp with balanced output, a balanced cable may be the best upgrade. A clear improvement in my Senn 600, and other h-phones too. |