onhwy61
Responses from onhwy61
| Herbie Hancock, River: The Joni Letters You're picking nits. What's your opinion of the music and performances? | |
| Freezing an LCD TV Some manufacturers provides specs on operating temperature ranges and storage ranges. 20 to 30 below is probably well below what the manufacturer would recommends, but that doesn't mean your LCD will not function (if allowed to warm up). I just ca... | |
| "Breathing" of the air Is dimensionality different than air? If so, how? Old mono recordings of limited frequency bandwidth can have good dimensionality, especially on vocals. | |
| Ever discover cheapo speakers actually sound... It shouldn't be that surprising. JBL/Harmon has the resources and expertise to be able to put out a halfway decent product at that price. Depending upon how they chose to voice the speaker it could be non-aggressive sounding and its faults being s... | |
| What will slap around Based upon your criteria I don't think that any speaker will do what you describe. Switching to the 9/1 will give you a slightly bigger sound and will keep all the positive elements of the SP100s. Surprisingly, they can be had used for less than $... | |
| Good Analog EQ If it's just a temporary solution, then just use the digital room correction. No new interconnects, no new power cords and no new rack space needed. The losses resulting from the added AD-DA conversion could easily be outweighed by the increased r... | |
| New preamps making new claims. The process of advancement in audio reproduction is more of a random walk than a straight line jog from better to best. If you examine the product history of companies that have been in the business for a significant amount of time you will see nu... | |
| "Big" Columbia sound: lates 60s/70s..... Another Columbia horn band that came out of Chicago was The Flock. Also check out the Sons of Chaplin. | |
| Spendors SP-100 R.....anybody heard them ? It depends upon the rest of your system, your room and your listening preferences, but if it were me, I'd go with the Spendors. They won't image/soundstage like the Avalons, but they'll play louder, go deeper and vocals will sound more natural. Yo... | |
| OK to have power amps powered w/o spkrs.? Are you purposely not telling us what your amps are? This info could factor into the correct response.In general, if it's a recent design (last 20 years) solid state amp, then leaving it on won't be a problem. Tube amps are a completely different ... | |
| Which component upgrade will produce more BASS? I suspect deep bass is not really the issue. Ziggy is probably lacking energy in the 60Hz to 200Hz region which is probably due to room/speaker/listener placement issues. It would help if Ziggy would describe his equipment placement within the room. | |
| Noise coming from tweeter when amp get turned on How does this noise effect your listening sessions? Is it audible more than a few inches from the tweeter? If not, you need to ask yourself is "fixing" it worth the bother. | |
| Rowland Concentra mk1 - Leaving it on? The amp should be warm, but not hot. Call Rowland, they have excellent service. | |
| Power PC G3 as music source? It should work, but a more powerful machine will make for faster, and potentially better sounding, lossless translations. | |
| Digital remastering of CD's As far as I know, there are no true 24 bit A/D converters. So 24 bit resolution is more of a marketing ploy than a reality. Also, any recent releases by reputable companies have been remastered at high bit/sample rate resolution. And even if they ... |