ozfly
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| PBN Montana Sammy: Any Experience? John, yes you have enough room, especially with an open floor plan. I am using a pair of the mega powerful Olympia amps (Sierra Audio from PBN) combined with the Olympia LX preamp. Same setup as used to drive the WAS's in a really big room. Let's ... | |
| PBN Montana Sammy: Any Experience? Hi John. I used to own the WAS's and downsized when we moved homes. The Sammys take a long time to break in but are absolutely lovely looking and sounding speakers. Very clear and crisp midrange and very nice soundstage. I'm not yet set up acousti... | |
| Help....I have a blank slate and am flying blind If I'm interpreting all this right, you may also want to check out the Squeezebox (may be two words). It does a nice job either wired or wirelessly transmitting PC based music to your preamp. It's got a reasonably good DAC built in. You get a bigg... | |
| The Irrational But Efficacious CD Tweak So this is a tweak that needs to be repeated regularly or it loses effectiveness? That really is strange. Please tell me you also need to drink a 15 year old single malt whenever the cd is played. I can live with that kind of ritual ;-) | |
| How many more years before cd's become passe? Nice thread. Maybe our discussion can't change the future, but neither can our discussions about weather or sports change those outcomes. It's all about connections, having fun and thinking. My take is that cds will be around until they can be dow... | |
| anyone mention tull? They are great from their early stuff (e.g., Benefit) on. I'm not sure I can separate my appreciation of their music from my wonderful memories of listening to them with friends. Therefore, I can't objectively rave about their compositions or musi... | |
| Top turntables? You'll likely get as many answers as there are turntables, so keeping with that spirit, I love my Origin Live Sovereign paired with the Origin Live Conquerer tone arm. The combination produces a great solid yet open and crisp sound in a small foot... | |
| 2006 BEST Female Vocal CD/SACD/XRCD Bander, you're right about Vienna Teng. I saw her live in Charlotte (she opened for Mindy Smith) and she was both a fine singer and pianist. The great thing about that experience was she played in an acoustically restored movie theater so the audi... | |
| 2006 BEST Female Vocal CD/SACD/XRCD Keeping it to 2006 narrows things down a bit, but a very nice standards singer is Robin McKelle, who debuted this year with her self-titled cd. Just a couple of years older, coming out in 2004, the "all of our names" cd from Sarah Harmer gets a lo... | |
| Have you used a frequency/tone CD w/SPL meter ... Ditto to Newbee & Sbank's responses. The small differences in listening position will be particularly true in small to mid sized rooms, especially ones where the dimensions reinforce the same frequencies (a cube is the extreme example where th... | |
| Speakers cables that are warm yet detailed........ As some have suggested, it's impossible for anyone else to know your equipment, acoustics and taste. So, any answers will be best guesses based on experience and biases -- but that's the human condition and anyone who asks for advice will surely r... | |
| 25' balanced ic that a mere mortal can afford? Sound Quest Pro Series Zero Point Reference Interconnect Very, very inexpensive. Very, very neutral. It took me forever to find something better and the silver reference acoustic zen finally won out but I would not have bought the zen if I didn't ... | |
| Choosing the right Bryston amp When I ran Thiel speakers, I preferred the 4BST to the 3BST -- it just sounded a bit more natural and deeper to me. Hey, you can't ask a question on Audiogon without getting conflicting answers, eh? For full disclosure, I also preferred the 7BST t... | |
| Audiophile license plates I could never remember my plate numbers so I went simply with "Audio" though I needed to settle for "Audio1" since the former was taken. I'd been kicking around "Stereo" but since I drive an Audi, "Audio1" had a bit of a double meaning. Good luck. | |
| Am I a burning out audiophile???? You might want to try the system in a different room. The acoustics won't be as good in a room with two of the same dimensions. Starting at about 31 Hz, the room doubly reinforces the sound energy about every 30 Hz with large gaps of reinforcement... |