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| Isolation vs. Absorbtion Hi Sean. My view is that mass loading of components has pluses and minuses. I hold to my view that mass in general is a bad thing (for reasons both you and I have referred to above), but is a necessary evil in the pursuit of rigidity and damping. ... | |
| Upgrade Time Again.... please help Hi Rosebud. I never wanted to become a tube guy. But I got to the stage where I felt I had put together about as good a system as I could, but when I went to live events I was always gobsmacked by the fact that there was a kind of beauty to voices... | |
| Isolation vs. Absorbtion Not at all Sean, instead I am a bit embarrassed at your flattery. The general conclusions I have come to are not detailed enough to answer all of the questions you list - but nevertheless so far I believe: it is OK to use multiple structures sitti... | |
| Upgrade Time Again.... please help I cannot see how you are going to be happy with solid state after having had tubes Dan - once the thrill of the bass is over. Wolcott sounds ideal and a good match for your speakers. I have heard a good number of the solid state power amps you hav... | |
| If you could remaster three cd's... I second the "..Girl At Her Volcano" Retroguy. There are several albums I love but can only listen to on the car stereo where the recording nasties are irrelevant - one is "Miss America" by Mary Margaret O'Hara (I may have some part of that name w... | |
| If you had to make this decision.... I like the buffered version of the Placette - sounds more like a direct bypass than any other preamp I have tried. But being a good Kiwi, I have to point out that the new Plinius linestage preamp sounds great too. | |
| Rel Storm and Rel Strata III Hi Sugarbrie. I did try the Storm with the top-of-line XLO powercord - unfashionable today, but actually one of the more neutral sounding power cords, and the only one that I had spare that was long enough. I didn't get the chance to try the Storm... | |
| Isolation vs. Absorbtion I don't buy the mechanical diode idea as anything more than an analogy (and all analogies are inaccurate), and tend to agree with Mapleshade that for a cone to do its thing it would ideally have a point on both ends - hence the Mapleshade idea of ... | |
| Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list I think I really would die if I was only allowed 5 albums. Following are a few I would die for - chosen from a much longer list, mainly for their obscurity (rather than repeat the many others listed above that I agree with). David Sylvian "Secrets... | |
| Who is Most Beautiful female singer ever Sophie Zelmani gets my vote - great eponymous album by the way. | |
| Thiel 2.3--bright or harsh ? Hi Pops. I have Thiel 3.6 driven by the latest Plinius SA250 in one of my systems and they do sound great (and not at all bright - as you say. But the 2.3 is not in the same ball-park and tonally leaner IMO. I feel the Plinius is better than eithe... | |
| Rel Storm and Rel Strata III I think the Storm is ported, whereas the Strata is sealed. I tried both independently but not together. I think the Storm was more extended, but not as tight as the Strata. | |
| Thiel 2.3--bright or harsh ? Gjrad is right. Don't ever expect Thiel speakers to sound lush and romantic. The 2.3 will always be a struggle for you unless you like a clean, slightly "whitened", slightly lean sound - but teaming the 2.3 with Krell is not likely to work well, a... | |
| SS vs Tube: What do you hear? Solid state preamps can sound great objectively, but tend to have a mechanical presentation, whereas the best tube pre-amps reproduce the organic quality of real instruments and voices. But I differ with many above and prefer a tube power amp over... | |
| Isolation vs. Absorbtion If there is an answer, I haven't found one. You mention soft pads isolating a CD player - if only.. All they do is change the resonance to a lower frequency - whether this is better or worse is a matter of taste. Arguably a soft pad allows the vib... |