rhyno
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| Best Speaker Cables for Merlin VSM-Milenniums take a look at my review of TG Audio SLVRs on audioasylum. that speaker cable ate up and spit out my JPS Super biwires. i've heard nothing with better staging. nothing. and unlike most silver, its not bright w/ the merlins.rhyno | |
| Used Pass 600monos or Rowland 8TiHC? if i were you, i'd listen to crump. the JC1s have yet to get the press, but when they do...watch for the review to come in BFS. i know of people getting rid of pass x's & atmashperes (the big dollar ones) to get the JC1s. at a minimum, its wor... | |
| Sinatra - good vs great agreed on the SfSL disc. definitely sinatra's best. other great listings: live in paris, sinatra w/ jobim, only the lonely (sad but wonderful), w/ count basie (very hot!). the reprise 4 disc set is a great intro as well, but the 1st reprise disc y... | |
| Sub Opinions, Velodyne HGS 12, Entec LF-20, Von Sc entecs use 10". i just sold my pair, and am sorry i did. they were wonderful. the HSU is home theatre, decent for music, but not in the same class as entec or audio physics rhea.velodyne/VS: i'd listen to them as a gift, but wouldn't buy them... | |
| Why Put Up With "Wife Approval Factor"? you've never seen soundlabs in person i take it. | |
| Best Power Conditioner? my personal fave is the bybee rebuild by TG audio. bound for sound loved it as well. ---its effect in my system was nothing less than dramatic, startling, ridiculous. bought it in 1 min audition (and i already had a vaunted PC in my system, which ... | |
| Acapella ion tweeters i've heard the campaniles at fcrowder's place. of all the speakers i've heard, i've never been as impressed with anything as i was with that tweeter. its remarkable. | |
| Box speakers that sound like Electrostats? my comments were exactly that:macrodynamics: impact and the ability to play LOUD (or to a lesser extent, the transition from soft to loud effortlessly), which stat's cannot.microdynamics: the ability to hold a note into the black recesses...really... | |
| Box speakers that sound like Electrostats? lets see, stats are wonderfully fast, excellent microdynamics, very holographic in imaging, but no macrodynamics or bass.not many boxes can keep up w/ the speed. having heard lots of stats (and i do love what they do, but they're limitations preve... | |
| Sub-woofers to go with Quad 988 / 989 ? bass does image above 80hz, and as far as i've heard, quad's do need a sub above 60 (up to 100 or thereabouts) to provide some impact and dynamics to the sound. x-over below 100(@ 60-80) will work, and probably easier, but you won't have much in t... | |
| Sub-woofers to go with Quad 988 / 989 ? get yourself a good, sealed front firing sub w/ cutoff somewhere @ 100hz. i disagree w/ rel and other down firing subs as they're muddied per the downward firing driver..takes away the staging and the imaging (yes, bass images). good ones that com... | |
| Best Allman Brothers releases? if you're just starting, start w/ eat a peach. | |
| Best bargain find ever ? kenwood kt-8300 for $70...but better stillCTC BBQ amp ($7k retail, over $3500 in parts) for $1800...better still: entec LF20 subs (2) for $1200...the best: G&D custom preamp for $700...as good in sound quality as their transports...and got eve... | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? in all components, replace all coupling electrolytic caps w/ black gate nonpolars (they're @$20 or so each)....monumental improvements. | |
| Usher speaker's power handling dont worry about max power handling. ever.99% of listening is done w/in the first few watts. i think usher is 87db/w/m. that means at ear splitting level (say, 100db), its @ 20w.---this is why you buy amplifiers that have class A bias through the ... |