raquel
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| Rowland JRDG 501 and Wilson Audio Most ICe amps will sound painful in combination with the Focal titanium tweeter Wilson uses. Perhaps the 201/501 would be less bad with Rowland's new outboard power supplies, but I would still think you want an analog amp with Wilsons (PS - What m... | |
| Focal 1037be's Amp Suggestions ??? You wrote:"I'm a rocker and I do some jazz once in a while. So what do I do to get the most from what I have? ... Do I go after more power? Buy a better speaker? Move the system to a smaller area? Gee, this isn't very easy!"I have to assume that y... | |
| Focal 1037be's Amp Suggestions ??? I have my speakers in a 15' x 15' x 9' room ... but with a view of the Hudson and the mountains -- life is full of compromises.I heard a pair of Nova Utopia Be's (no doubt an improvement over what you are running) in a room about the size of your ... | |
| Focal 1037be's Amp Suggestions ??? You definitely do not want to move them into a square room (15' x 15'), which would be the worst possible acoustic environment - square rooms accentuate room modes, usually guaranteeing large peaks and dips in a system's frequency response. I assu... | |
| Focal 1037be's Amp Suggestions ??? My guess is that it's not the amp, but the large room -- you have a lot of cubic feet and most speakers can't really fill such a space. | |
| Do you leave your McCormack amps powered on 24/7? Returning to my above post, I want to reemphasize the point about the importance of leaving small-signal tube gear (e.g., tube preamps and tubed CD players) powered up 24/7, and not because it sounds better, but to EXTEND TUBE LIFE. Quoting from t... | |
| Do you leave your McCormack amps powered on 24/7? The general answer to your question is that all high-end equipment should be left on 24/7, with a couple of exceptions and a caveat.There are two reasons to keep gear constantly powered up: (i) gear sounds a lot better when left on 24/7, especiall... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Clio09: Running a good solid-state preamp with a tube amp is no experiment, as solid-state pre's have none of the impedance matching issues or problems driving long runs on interconnects that tube preamps have. My personal belief is that an elite ... | |
| Speaker direction? Dave_b: "The more toe in used the the [sic] smaller the soundstage." In fact, it depends upon the speaker and the room. A speaker like your WP 6 requires toe-in due to beaming caused in the upper mids by the use of what is basically a woofer as a ... | |
| Wilson Sophia2, Watt/Puupy 8, differences? Tvad: I have never owned Zu's. The Fremonts replaced AudioMachina (Karl Schumann) Ultimate Monitors, which were a fantastic speaker that simply didn't work in my new listening room. | |
| Wilson Sophia2, Watt/Puupy 8, differences? Tvad: Atkinson's measurements: yes and no. My initial set of measurements reflected the general frequency response shape seen in his anechoic measurements, but the aberrations were less severe. I measured with the speakers set up on sliding glass ... | |
| Wilson Sophia2, Watt/Puupy 8, differences? Pairing a class D amp with the titanium Focal tweeter that Wilson uses will soon have you selling either the amp or the speakers -- a recipe for nastiness.What follows is off-topic -- sorry -- but if you like clean highs like that offered by Focal... | |
| 16K to Spend. Help me make the end all Upgrade. " I can't figure out for the life of me why people are raving about the Revels."Most high-end equipment will sound very, very good when used in the right system. Otherwise said, synergy among speakers and electronics is crucial. Taking your experi... | |
| tube integrated amp recommendations? The Audio Research CA-50 is very good sounding for the money (they are usually available for around $1,200 used). It has a remote. | |
| Avalon Indra vs Revel Studio2 vs Focal 1037BE If you like the Focal 1037 BE, why not the Diva Utopia BE? I do recall that the bigger Nova Utopia requires at least 11 ft. of listening distance. Assuming the smaller Focals are the same (then again, maybe not - smaller speakers tend to require l... |