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| Best sound at Stereophile show. Well Marakanetz, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on the MBL's. Everything they played when I visited sounded quite good and natural to me and I was familiar with a couple of the selections. For you to say that they had the worst sound... | |
| Best sound at Stereophile show. Interesting comments. One thing I can't understand is Marakanetz's remarks on the MBLs. I thought MBL had possibly the best sound at the show and another friend who's ears I trust felt the same. I really relaxed and simply enjoyed the music in tha... | |
| Innersound ESL amplifier - good choice? I have used the Rogue 99 preamp in combination with the InnerSound ESL amp and it worked really well on the InnerSound Eros. The ESL amp will have a lot of power to spare in driving the 1.6s, even playing them as loud as they can play without self... | |
| Monarchy Amps 70/100's vs. Odyssey Stratos I know a man who owned the Odyssey Stratos and then bought the Monarchy SM-70s for a second system. He is now considering selling the Stratos and replacing them with more Monarchy amps in his primary listening system. I have personally listened to... | |
| Digital "Crispies" and the ART di/o Which input sampling rate is your DI/O set to? If it is not 44.1 then that could be the problem and if it is the external mode then you may be losing the digital lock. The DI/O doesn't have a very wide window of tolerance in the ext. (green LED) m... | |
| Best Used DAC for 1000? I second the ModWright/Perpetual Tech P-3A as being an excellent alternative. You get the benefit of 24/96 upsampling and the modded version provides a very rich blend of musicality with low-noise and fine detailing. It's hard to go wrong and you ... | |
| Background Hissing Noise When Idle The fact that the hissing noise increases as volume increases would indicate that whichever piece is controlling the volume or the source is the cause of the noise. I doubt that it's the Krell gear, so the most likely culprit is the Lexicon proces... | |
| Non Audiophiles are funny people Hey, if it looks like a turntable, works like a turntable, and sounds like a turntable, it must be a turntable, right? One thing you can safely assume is that these folks are neither DJs nor audiophiles, and luckily in this country it is not yet a... | |
| Electrostats Shootout at 4000 Corral Tweekerman, to answer your question, I would take the Eros Mk-II over the CLS IIz and the REL Storm combo (to me that's not even a close call). As transparent as the CLS IIz may be, the Eros is equally adept. And I have never heard the CLS throw t... | |
| Electrostats Shootout at 4000 Corral Hasse, sorry if I come off as sort of an evangelist for the Eros, but I know from personal experience that the Eros Mk-II will deliver more extended and dynamic bass than the Maggie 3.6 and clean, very articulate highs out past the upper limits of... | |
| Electrostats Shootout at 4000 Corral Hey, Kw6, collapsing soundstage, that's a new one on me. I don't think that particular phenomenon is due to the design of the woofer enclosure as you've suggested, but may be more related to the the amplifier not being able to supply adequate powe... | |
| Electrostats Shootout at 4000 Corral Regarding my previous post, to those of you who think it's somehow unfair to use affordable digital processing to achieve excellent sonic results, all I can say is "Welcome to the 21st Century!"Teekerman, as a former owner of the original Eros and... | |
| Electrostats Shootout at 4000 Corral Kirk930,I have heard the DynAstats and don't think they are in the same ballpark with the Eros Mk-II, which I own. Certainly, the InnerSounds are more efficient and robust than the Sound Labs and will play cleanly at much higher output levels.As t... | |
| New gears? Yeah guys, 3.73:1, that was my favorite gear too, for my '67 Z28 Camaro back in the day. 4.11:1 had great bottom end and midrange power but rolled off the top end, whereas the 2.73:1 had great top end but no bottom octave horsepower... Always trad... | |
| New gears? Then again, I suppose that if you were speaking metaphorically with the individual components each representing respective cogs in the chain, you could use "gears" in that context. But I think it's a stretch.Cornfed gets the cigar for his "collect... |