onhwy61
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| Who is the KING of MONOS? It's not a stupid post! But it does beg the question, if there is a king, is there an emperor of the monos? Is there a benevolent first comrade of the monos? Is there a Godfather of the monos? (Is there a Fredo of the monos?) Ultimately is there a... | |
| Room correction altering soundstage The Tact 2.0 is finicky to set up. Redo your initial audio test signals and see if you can replicate what you're now hearing. | |
| Weght limit for SolidSteel shelf/cones? I've used a Solid Steel rack with individual components weighing close to 100lbs. It's not a problem. | |
| Best speaker in the US $ 30-45.000,00 range The OP doesn't say why he's dissatisfied with his current Consensus speaker or what he is trying to achieve with this change, doesn't say whether the new speaker will be used in his current system and doesn't say anything about his room. All he gi... | |
| Can the Harbeth 40.1's boggie ????? Garebear, let me extrapolate on what I said above.We're the same age and I suspect we have been audiophiles for most of our adult lives. I've come to the conclusion that for all practical purposes a single system cannot really do justice to all ty... | |
| Why is Mcintosh C2300 not balanced? There's a recent thread regarding XLR adapters where the subject of feeding single ended sources into balanced amps is extensively discussed. You need to read that post. | |
| Can the Harbeth 40.1's boggie ????? If you remove the Harbeth issue and restate the OP in a generic form it becomes "why doesn't my high dollar, audiophile approved system sound good on classic rock recordings?" In its many forms this is one of the more popular posts on Audiogon. Wh... | |
| Real Music vs Audiophile Mumbo Jumbo Live unamplified sound is a great tool for judging a system's accuracy, but it is not the only measure. The fact is most audiophile oriented systems cannot deal with concert level rock music. An electric guitar is an amplified instrument. Does it ... | |
| Find the weak link to help me spend $800 or so Add a high quality directional antenna. | |
| Perfect sound Now what? I'd listen to music. | |
| Downsizing from Ayre MX-R monoblocks Unlike the majority of responders to this post I think the OP can be perfectly happy with his downsized system. This is particularly true if when he listens to music he actually listens to the musical performance as opposed to the sound of the mus... | |
| Downsizing from Ayre MX-R monoblocks A new system is a new system and you will be disappointed if you try to recreate something you had before. You're better off accepting your new system for what it is and try to maximize its strengths. The Sonus Fabers are an excellent choice and I... | |
| "American Sound" Speakers Brf, good explanation. The American sound had its roots in Bell Labs/Western Electric whereas the British sound was derived from the BBC. | |
| State of the art CD player? Only if you do this. Recording studios don't control the format music gets released in. Record companies, artists and/or retailers do. So why don't these entities release master tapes? Probably the same reason Google doesn't publish it's search engine algorithms. | |
| Can temperature fluctuations affect audio gear? The ambient temp can effect speaker performance. I experienced this first hand with a pair of Monitor Audio Studio 20s. Below about 70° the sound would lose its openess. It could be due to the metal cones in the Monitor Audio, but I haven't notice... |