onhwy61
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| Analog Domain EQs You will not be able to find high quality non-XLR pro EQs. If you have flexibility on that requirement, then you should consider the Manley Massive Passive, the Millennia NSEQ-2 or the GML models. These are all very high quality units and can be q... | |
| Damping Vibration - Friend or Foe? NIce post. You're a very welcomed addition to Audiogon. | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? My two favorites are:Chuck Berry'sAs I was motivatin' over the hillI saw Maybelline in a Coupe de VilleandSmokey Robinson'sOooh, Baby Baby | |
| Outkast / speakerboxx It's a really good album and it is primarily a digital recording. | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... Rightly or wrongly, a bad review in Stereophile can destroy the viability of a company. I actually applaud the fact that Stereophile uses its power sparingly. | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... You're not just a messenger, you're an advocate. You cite one or two examples or what you think is poor design and then draw an extreme conclusion. I survey the current marketplace and see an overwhelming abundance of well designed and good soundi... | |
| Analog Domain EQs Rives has what you are looking for. | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... It's tough to take Trelja's position seriously. I think he's just being argumentative. Even if the mid-80s NAD is superior to the Hovland in some areas of performance, it's not logical to conclude that new gear is getting worst. At most all you ca... | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... The ability to drive low impedance loads is not the end all criteria for amplifier performance. Many hi-end products are specialty niche items intended for specific applications. To judge them outside of their intended use is not particularly enli... | |
| IPOD and an audiophile soundcard The Digigram offers a card for adding digital I/O to laptops. | |
| Any monitor audio studio se owners? I've owned Studio 50s and still own Studio 20s. They are excellent speakers. Smooth sounding and provide plenty of detail. They also are capable of excellent soundstaging. As an added benefit they are relatively efficient and present an easy ampli... | |
| IPOD and an audiophile soundcard Converting vinyl to digital is a very time consuming process. It will take roughly twice the playing time of the record. In addition to a good A/D converter you'll also need software for editing and click removal. It may be less trouble to actuall... | |
| Well Tempered Classic-round or square motor? You have the square motor version. | |
| any decent powered speakers? Peacefrong, great name BTW, go to any pro-oriented music store (Guitar Center, Sam Ash, etc) and they'll carry dozens of low cost, self powered speakers. | |
| Does unequal speaker wire length matter? Ignore the above advice and use the unequal length cables. According to the logic of the above posts the unequal lengths can possibly result in a slight image shift towards the speaker with the shorter cable. If this is true, then it can be easily... |