randy-11
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| Magnepan Mods Looks nice but I don't see any SQ improvements when I've looked at them or his site, reviews, etc.Double-blind listening is the way to tell if you are getting SQ... | |
| Magnepan Mods They don't offer stands because they don't change the sound - it is a dipole speaker. Call Wendell if ya want - he's heard it all before.Magneplanar blind tests their speakers (with high end electronics) and does not release upgrades unless they ... | |
| Always long for (upgraded) first love: Sonic Frontiers Line 3 p/sis different not sure what else he meansg-ear - at 20 years old the electrolytic caps may be ready to fail - so add that cost in | |
| Tube rolling ARC amps & Steelhead I agree with the above post - for my own ARC Ref 2 Mk II preamp, I let the engineers at ARC carefully select individual tubes from their already carefully spec'd lots. | |
| Always long for (upgraded) first love: Sonic Frontiers Line 3 well, I have a Line One & replaced it with an ARC LS25 Mk II, but not sure I want to sell it - it may become part of a bedroom systembut you might consider finding a One and modifying the P/S to get a 3 | |
| Speakers for my car Focal has what you need, tho maybe not what you can afford... | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? Benchmark licensed a device or circuit topology that uses feed forward to reduce distortion when going from class A to B (or was it AB). I have not heard one (yet) but people I trust really like it. It's on my list.people who think innovation ha... | |
| Your advice to speakers designers I'm curious about the room treatments that are all hidden, built in to the structure of the room in a way that no one ever suspects to be room treatment...can you post more info?maybe put some pics up in the system area? | |
| Digital Music sounds too bright? the blanket works (on Maggies more than cone head speakers)the problem is that it is hard to see the screen that way | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? more goo goo | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? ok, now I’m curious - where can I read about the advances in understanding human hearing & perception thereof (psych. not physiol.) since the 1960s?beyond any Google or Gloggle?if you have a book or review paper post the cite & I will chec... | |
| Why don't amplifier Companies use high end fuses? if _there_ is a large sample consisting of people whose subjective experiences all have common descriptionsthen that is useful grist for the hypothesis forming mill, but not what any scientist would call dataif you then make sure the sample is sta... | |
| Your advice to speakers designers Take half the time you spend on the enclosure / aesthetics, and passive crossovers, and build speakers with an amp. for each driver, using digital crossovers before the D>A conversion. | |
| Are future improvements in Amp/PreAmps slowing to a crawl? ok, now I'm curious - where can I read about the advances in understanding human hearing & perception (psych. not physiol.) thereof since the 1960s? | |
| Cable Survey I know of some people who have indeed measured cables...and an appeal to authority is just what is needed as per the above post -- or when you see an MDOTOH, how could a physics PhD possibly enlighten a liberal arts major in audiophoolology or ant... |