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| Which very dynamic speakers would you recommend? Keep Canada green, buy a pair of Paradigm Studio 100 v2s.Affordable. Good beyond their price and big enough to give you extended low frequency response and efficient enough to provide excellent dynamics. To alleviate any fear of the tweeters, may ... | |
| What is vibration isolation for? Circling the wagons, closing ranks. Nothing that I wrote previously in this thread has been seriously challenged. The debate is fundamentally the same as in most if not all previous threads. The only added twist is the hobby aspect, which, as far ... | |
| Listening Through Walls at Show: Vodoo or Valid? You gotta be kidding. Are people like you promoting the "LIAR" test called "LIARS"? 'Agon is getting wackier and wackier by the day. Tell me it ain't so Joe. Speakers should be auditioned in the same manner they will be listened to. Reducing the v... | |
| What is vibration isolation for? Audiofile9, you are making this up as you go, no? Your techno babble sounds almost convincing. The problem is you have nothing quantified. Just because something is a theoretical possibility does not mean that it has any practical implications. As... | |
| What is vibration isolation for? Bob, (you don't mind if I call you Bob? Calling yourself buzzard is quite radical, I think). The users of the devices are no longer laughing because of the amounts they paid for them and the emotional attachment such an expenditure usually provoke... | |
| What is vibration isolation for? Insofar as solid state electronic components, the whole vibration thing is bogus to start with. Tubes may be microphonic and a damping ring around them can't hurt, but solid state circuitry is for all practical applications relating to reproducing... | |
| Listening Through Walls at Show: Vodoo or Valid? This is not even voodoo. It only lends credence to what I wrote on this site many months ago: audio shows are the worst places to form any kind of opinion on a sound system. The dreaded subject of blind testing gets short shrift because it, accord... | |
| What is vibration isolation for? So who says? It all started with something that makes sense, that is isolating a mechanical contraption called a turntable from vibration coming through the air and through whatever the tt was placed on. Makes a lot of sense when you consider the ... | |
| Bryston 7B ST - Sounds anaemic. Any help? Hafeez: Bryston is the real deal. I'm glad people like them are in business. In the quest for perfection, we sometimes lose perspective. I hope you enjoy the music and forget the hardware for a while. Regards. BTW, leave them on and the issue of t... | |
| Tom Waits As a baseline I favour the writer as being the best interpreter of his/her own words. Even more so when the words come from a perspective that is so singular, so personal and from such an idiosyncratic person. We are not talking Yip Harburg or Col... | |
| Tom Waits Waits is Waits is Waits. Why an ersatz when you can have the real thing? Quite surreal, I admit, but at the top of the list of, for want of a better expression, singer/songwriters. Not the easiest music or lyrics, dark, stark, troubling but never ... | |
| RB300 maintainance... Listen to cds or just the middle of lps. Another reason to hail the lps as the "superior medium", I guess. BTW, is it "analog" qua analog that sounds better or the lp storage/retrieval medium itself? Put another way: has anyone (aside from people ... | |
| What's the best location for a skylight? Definitely in the ceiling! On a more serious note, I would avoid one in a listening room. If you insist on one, I would keep it away from the speaker end of the room and probably not over the listening position. I am certain you will get all kinds... | |
| Bryston 7B ST - Sounds anaemic. Any help? All power amps that I have owned did something similar. Ask Sean, but I believe it's the storage caps that are discharging. | |
| Best Jazz Vocalists - Standard Songs The prior posts have covered a fair bit of territory. Ella Fitzgerald, in my opinion, is the quintessential female jazz vocalist. Sarah Vauhgan had a better instrument in some ways, but her delivery was a bit more quirky. The late Susannah McCorkl... |