onhwy61
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| Magico, Aerial, Dali Intrigued by your statement that the 6s aren't enough speaker for your room. Please describe your room. | |
| Why do I like Class AB better than Class A? Are you sure you're not responding to one amp being silver and the other black? How you're able to leap from a quick listen sonic preference to a clear cut distinction between amplifier operating states is beyond me. | |
| Donna Summer, rip It doesn't get any better than "MacArthur Park Suite". A towering performer. | |
| Recording/Engineering Practices It's a Rudy van Gelder recording. Can't say anything about how it was recorded. | |
| PA Speakers for Parties Check out the Behringer Eurolive series. You might have to raise your budget to the $400-500 area. | |
| MSB power Dac gold 4 What's input overload spec on the Sonic Frontiers? | |
| rip mca, beastie boys rapper For legal reasons it is virtually impossible to make a record similar to "Paul's Boutique". You just can't sample stuff like you used to. | |
| Do glass shelves affect sound Quality? The answer is yes, but exactly how much and whether it's bad is debatable. Glass has a bad reputation among some audiophiles. You'll find comments about ringing and glass adding a hardness to the sound of components. In the past I've used glass an... | |
| size of the driver It is cheaper to make a good small speaker with smallish drivers than to make an equally good larger speaker with large drivers. In addition to the cost of the drivers the cost of the speaker cabinet sharply increases with size. This wasn't necess... | |
| Recommend some Blues music to a newbie If someone says they like Eric Bibb how many degrees of separation does it take to get to Roy Buchanan or Danny Gatton? | |
| A B Cable comparison 24 hours in the life of an audiophile. | |
| Why does better power = better sound? It probably has to do with non-optimal power supplies in equipment that cannot fully eliminate harmonic impurities or adequately deal with small scale fluctuations in power line frequency. | |
| Compact Disc as a format Yes CDs are on the downward side of a product's economic arc, but it's not dead nor will CDs disappear anytime soon. The market is moving to downloads and streaming. The real question is whether in its twilight years will CDs resemble vinyl or cas... | |
| Focus on 24/192 Misguided?..... It no his arguments, but the conclusions he draws that takes him over the top.Much of his argument is premised upon amplifier circuits not being able to handle ultra sonic signals cleanly. Do they still make high end electronics that can't handle ... | |
| Focus on 24/192 Misguided?..... And what's wrong with mathematically perfect response out to 16kHz? Most people, and certainly most middle age and older audiophiles' hearing doesn't go beyond 16kHz. FM doesn't go beyond 15kHz and at its best it's pretty damn good sounding. 12bit... |