rooze
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| Are there any recording artists you just can’t listen too? Steely Dan - great musicianship and good songwriting, but their music leaves me cold. Souless maybe? | |
| Digital Room Correction vs Room Treatments That's actually not a terrible looking frequency response. I'd focus on some room treatments to try and improve bass response. I'd also (if you can) try and move the listening position to see if you can get that dip in bass to smooth out a little.... | |
| Desperate to Get Back to Horns What about a pair of Altec Valencia? Not quite on par with the Model 19 but with some cabinet tweaks and perhaps an active crossover, you may be able to get close. And for well under your budget. The OJAS/Klipsch speakers sound very good, but I ha... | |
| We Need To Talk About Ones And Zeroes "Several well-respected audiophiles in this forum have stated that the sound quality of hi-res streamed audio equals or betters the sound quality of traditional digital sources." What's a traditional digital source, a CD Player? If so, are we com... | |
| Are Merlin TSM speakers buried with their owners? There's life after Merlin. Good as they are, sometimes you just need a change. I had a pair of VSM MXe a few years back and moved on to a pair of Dunlavy SC-III, which I found similar in presentation to the Merlins, but even more coherrent, with b... | |
| Can using a bad tube hurt an amplifier? and speakers....they can damage those too. I always use a broom handle when I'm turning on my tube amps... | |
| Tube Pre/ Class D Amp - Who has done it? I’ve run various tube preamps into Class D amps and consider Class D just like any other solid state amp wrt compatibility with a tube preamp or linestage. I had the matching set of battery powered pre and power amps from Veloce Audio (LS-1 pre a... | |
| Anybody having trouble getting near-your-asking-price for used gear ? (Plz. no hype) I'm seeing the same thing as the OP. I used to be able to buy something used, play with it for a year, then sell it for about 10% less than I paid for it. So I'd be out the shipping cost and a couple hundred dollars, which was a reasonable price t... | |
| Amp suggestion for Merlin TSM speakers Audio Mirror SET45 monoblocks with 45w/channel from the 6c33c tube sounded great with my TSM BME. That extra bit of power compared to the Filarmonia is put to very good use on the TSM. | |
| REL Carbon Special Subwoofers or the REL G1 Gibraltar Reference Subwoo I own a pair of Carbon Specials and they sound fantastic. I've used them with multiple pairs of speakers, fullrange, bookshelf, fullrange drivers, open baffles, and I've never 'heard the passive radiator'!! I don't even know what that means. If yo... | |
| Synthesis A 50t What speakers are you using, what's their sensitivity? It's not uncommon to hear some audible hiss, particularly if your speakers are sensitive - say 94dB or higher, perhaps. You might be able to find quieter input tubes. I have the Titan A100 a... | |
| Can you damage your speakers by plugging bass port vent? I have ProAc D40R and plug the bass ports. I used a couple sheets of bubblewrap, folded over and taped. It works great to control a little bass boom, which is a function of the speakers position in the room and my seating position relative to the ... | |
| Lamm or Allnic Preamp I owned an Allnic L-5000 DHT a few years ago and it was excellent. Transparent, detailed, cohesive and extended on both ends. I replaced it with an Emotive Audio Epifania, which took detail and transparency up a notch or two, but sacrificed a remo... | |
| In need of a preamp with a prominent display My Don Sachs D2 pre has a big gaudy display that you can see from a mile away. Fortunately you can turn it off. | |
| Are Lampizator DACs uniquely analog sounding? This impinges on the old debate of digital versus analog. The dCS gear you have is top notch. There are DACs around that sound warmer and fleshier, if that's your thing. I had a Holo Audio May KTE R2R DAC that sounded warm and 'analog', I replaced... |