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| CD Player with Polarity Invert? On the other hand, does anyone know if tube CD players invert polarity, and if so, which ones do? | |
| CD Player with Polarity Invert? It seems like there are not many. I've heard the VK-D5 player and it sounded really good but it's a bit pricy and my preamp does not have balanced inputs.It's sort of an annoying problem as I'm trying to invert polarity of the phono stage and the ... | |
| electrostats vs ribbon drivers I too can agree that some ribbons (not all) are hot in the treble, but that is a generalization.I've also owned and have heard many different electrostatic speakers from Quad, Acoustat, Audio Static, King Sound, Sound Lab, Infinity, and InnerSound... | |
| Suggestions? Planar like Dynamic speaker under 2K Jeff,The VMPS ribbons used in multiples are very dynamic and play quite loud in my 14' x 30' room. I have the RM2's and recommend them highly. Of course there are other models with even more midrange drivers. The RM2 has a very good 12" woofer tha... | |
| S/Pdif vs. Toslink I use both with the same Pioneer transport and my Wyred 4 Sound DAC2 and can change to either cable at the push of a button. I think the Toslink sounds a bit more organic/rich in the midrange, so I usually like it for female vocals and other music... | |
| Integrated vs pre/power No, the separates won't always come out ahead... a good integrated can perform as well as separates. | |
| Sound stage, front, middle, or behind your speaker Elizabeth... does that mean you switch your speaker cables depending on what recordings and types of music you're playing? Both my amp and DAC feature polarity inversion on the fly, so I have no problem pushing a button on the remote to get the pr... | |
| Sound stage, front, middle, or behind your speaker I agree with Elizabeth. I'd bet that if you swapped the negative and positive speaker leads on each respective amplifier channel your presentation could move more forward. You might want to try that to see which way your recordings sound best to y... | |
| Speakers more fussy about cables than amp? I view both amplifiers and cables as components and I have gotten different sonic results when changing either. But I will say that it is surprising to me how much difference cable changes can make and I'm speaking of all system cables including i... | |
| Why magic at 80 db? Wow, you guys are pretty low... must have significant others or neighbors that keep you in line!My systems have always been very dynamic meaning there's a large variation in volume from the softest to the loudest sounds... This does require that y... | |
| Do you understand your amplifier? I don't so much understand the reasons that certain circuit topology sounds the way it does. But I do have an understanding of the way different designs sound mainly from my listening experience with a wide variety of different amps.Decades ago I ... | |
| CD's vs Vinyl - Finally hear the difference I kind of agree with Elizabeth... why do we need to turn everything into a contest and then dump on the "loser."In my considerable experience with both CD and vinyl (and I started with vinyl many years ago and was sad when CD became the medium of ... | |
| Is phase control switch a deal breaker for you? I have it on my Wyred 4 Sound Dac2 and Integrated amp. I can almost always hear a difference on my recordings and have a preference one way or the other for a given recording. I switch from the listening seat via the remote so I don't need to get ... | |
| Question: DAC too hot & want to add sub I generally agree with Arni but would add that the room acoustics could also be making the sound bright... | |
| Amp more important than speakers? Weseixas, I agree, I think some of the Onkyo amps/receivers sound quite good, which is what prompted me to put it in the system in the first place and now I'm glad I did.I also want to say that my slant is that the loudspeaker should be matched to... |