pubul57
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| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Kevin, I can't imagine you would not prefer the LSA over the passive built into the Aero, but of course you won't be listening to the Aero transport/dac either. Knghifi, we await your full assessment when you have had some time....hope you are not... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Kevin, what preamp will the LS be replacing or compared to? The Art Audio doesn't have volume control, does it? | |
| How close to the real thing? "BK: Yes. I've heard great recordings that stun me. But every time I go to hear the group live in front of me with no amplification, I think that we are so far away from the live experience that we will never have that experience."The truth of tha... | |
| does a subwoofer kill stereo sound? I suspect that alot of information regarding a venue's acoustic space is very low frequency info that you can't quite hear on an obviouos manner, but is notable by its absence. If I had to use a subwoofer, I would only do so with close to full-ran... | |
| How close to the real thing? If OP's friend is right, then it just might be that 5% sound pretty darn good, but I suspect "5%" is just hyperbole. | |
| Speakers that excel at depth/layering/space Panels in general, time & phase coherent, 1sr order xover speakers like Thiel and Vandersteen, and most two-way speakers including my Merlin VSMs seems to be good at this sort of thing, and tube amps do seem to somewhow do this better than SS,... | |
| How close to the real thing? You may be right, but to me it seems like more than just a matter of opinion in that sense that I find it hard to believe that anyone one accustomed to unamplified, acosutic music would ever be fooled by a stereo system into thinking it is real in... | |
| How close to the real thing? don't forget revisions A,B,C.... of the Signaturre Reference Ultimate MK2.17 | |
| How close to the real thing? Good point Onhwy61, or distinction. I often prefer listening to my home system to live while recongnizing there are aspects of live performance that are simply not present in a recording and I think the issue of compression mentioned by Shadorne i... | |
| How close to the real thing? You are right about the 12Khz:( missing in action (more or less)and yet "live" and recordings remain distinctly their own sonically. P.S. I used TDK, when I wasn't on the Thorens..... | |
| How close to the real thing? I agree 95% with:11-23-10: LrskyAssigning an actual percentage would be an exercise in intellectual futility and meaningless as nobody would agree...it's enough to say that I've not heard reproduced sound, sound anything like the real thing, EVER.... | |
| Rogue vs ARC But Tvad, what would Audiogon be without sweeping generalizations and unwavering opinions and conclusions? All kidding aside, I think the need to discuss all amps in the context of the speakers being used is essential to relevance of any assessmen... | |
| Recommended e.g. not Are tube amps then out of the question but for some tube pre/amp combos well outside of the $4k budget? Is SS almost a necessity with Thiel, even the "easier" to drive 7.2s? | |
| Mapletree Audio versus Decware preamps Rolled in RCA 12SN7s and 6X5s - The more time I spend with the 2A SE, the more appreciate what a fine sounding piece of gear it is. Not sure how the Mapletree might compare with the Decware - but I suggest you A/B this piece with much more expensi... | |
| Mapletree Audio versus Decware preamps Hi Rudge. Not sure I will be able to do a meaningful comparison since I have not had any of those preamps in my system for quite some while, even the Joule is at least six months or longer. I will be A/B the Lightspeed Attenuator with the Mapletre... |