paulfolbrecht
Responses from paulfolbrecht
| Most agreed upon best speaker? I heard the Helix for a couple hours at a local reviewer's place and was underwhelmed.Horses for courses! | |
| Most agreed upon best speaker? Stacking Quads with B&W 801s gives the best of all worlds.That or a 7.1 system with Wilson fronts, Thiel rears, and cogent horns on the sides. | |
| Most agreed upon best speaker? What a stupid waste of time this thread is.Anybody who doesn't know that Audio Note AN/Es are the best speakers for all people, in all rooms, for all music and with all electronics is a stupid pig f---er, that's for sure. | |
| SET vs Single Ended Parrallel As for my opinion - I haven't formed an informed one based on experience.There are some very experienced and respected amp designers (Gordon Rankin) who swear there is a sonic penalty, and other firms (Audio Note) who build incredible parallel SET... | |
| SET vs Single Ended Parrallel Brm1,This question is not a matter of opinion at all. A parallel SET - single-ended-triode - amplifier IS A SET.Note that I did NOT say that there are no sonic differences (penalties) associated with multiple output tubes. Many believe there are. | |
| SET vs Single Ended Parrallel Single-ended parallel is SET.A SET is a SET regardless of the number of output tubes. | |
| Can good speakers take edge off digital? Toufu,My first recommendation would be the best Audio Note DAC you can afford; 2nd would be Wavelength or MHDT (which are astoundingly good for the money). | |
| Can good speakers take edge off digital? Actually 'worse' speakers are likely to take the edge off better.But the way to cure your problem is with a good non-oversampling/filterless DAC. | |
| The best "imaging" speakers? Trcnetmsncom,I'm not going to say "to each their own" is a silly concept.However, I will definitely say that once an audiophile becomes more experienced, and/or morphs into more of a 'music lover', the qualities I touched upon will be *far* more i... | |
| The best "imaging" speakers? 'Imaging' is something that should be far down the list on essential qualities in a speaker... music is about getting the *tonality*, flow, and dynamic (micro & macro) transitions correct! | |
| Zu Druids - Two years after None of the Zu speakers are 'almost' 'horn-type' - unless you are counting the waveguide on the super tweeter?They are not horns at all, front or back-loaded. | |
| Sumiko Blackbird, Shindo and EAR And, by the way, the Blackbird was substantially cheaper than the Ortofon (Kontra H). | |
| Sumiko Blackbird, Shindo and EAR FWIW, I ran a LOMC Ortofon cart (which is very low impedance) into my Monbrison for some time and loved it... then I tried a Blackbird and liked it _much_ better. Yes, a tiny bit of detail missing, but it had none of that funny, tizzy treble you s... | |
| Zu Druids - Two years after Hey Glory,You had Audio Note speakers, right? Es or Js? And you really sold those for Zu? | |
| A weird thing happened to my Red Wine Audio 30.2.. The music sounded completely flat with no dimensionality or soundstage and thus no dynamism.I feel compelled to point out that dimensionality and soundstaging have nothing to do with dynamics.FYI, cold batteries are able to provide much less curre... |