rsimms
Responses from rsimms
| XLR or RCA? I have a Calypso tube preamp. It has fully balanced differential inputs and outputs. When I use the differential inputs and outputs I loose much of the tube character of my preamp. I have a tube preamp to get the euphonic tube sound to music. Tube... | |
| Coincident Pure Reference Extreme Rwd, the Vandersteen 7s, Kharmas, MBLs and my own Salk SoundScapes have thick cabinets that give a character to the sound that is different from the Electrovoice EV6s that I have in my bedroom. Since I am so familiar with the dead sound, I immedi... | |
| Coincident Pure Reference Extreme The Coincident PRE has a wonderful lively sound and would be very easy to love. They dont have the dead cabinet sound that most of the competition has. My comments are based on a brief review at the 2011 RMAF so take that into account.Bob | |
| Poor man's Rockport Atrias? Possibly the Salk SoundScape at 8k is the cheapest full range speaker that will play with the big boys. It has a very thick cabinet, transparent Accuton midrange and top quality design. The Accutons are near the top for transparency for simple con... | |
| At What Age Does An Audiophile Buy His Last Amp? I am 67 and just put together a pair of NCore monoblock amps last month. What does age have to do with it?Bob | |
| Mola-Mola Kaluga Ncore-based Monos: An impression Yes Guido, that is the one that I am talking about. The power supply board is mounted so that it's heatsink is left of the board. The Amp board is mounted left of that so it there is probably some RF shielding effect.Bob | |
| McCormack 225 vs AR 135 SD Zd542, I assume you are asking me what speakers I used for my comparison. I had Salk SoundScape 10s. They have Accuton midranges and RAAL ribbon tweeters.Bob | |
| Mola-Mola Kaluga Ncore-based Monos: An impression Guido, I agree with you. Mechanical and RFI isolation is a good goal. The Aluminati cases have separate machined pockets for the amp and power supply too. I suspect that is one of the main reasons they sound so good. From the 6 Moon’s pictures, Br... | |
| Mola-Mola Kaluga Ncore-based Monos: An impression The build seems to be very important to NCores. I borrowed a friend’s NC400s for a couple of months and they seemed comparable to my current amp. I then built my own NC400s and used machined Aluminati cases. They sound a couple of levels better th... | |
| McCormack 225 vs AR 135 SD Strange, I spent this summer comparing my longtime McCormack 225 with my friends new Hypex Ncore NC400 mono amps in my system. I even used a Calypso preamp for the listening. I was able to level match the amps and hot switch them so I could do a ... | |
| Review: Salk Sound SoundScape 8 Speaker Mitch, Dennis Murphy designed the crossover and came up with the open midrange chamber concept. He plays Viola with the Washington Philharmonic. He says that in real live he doesn’t hear the crystal clear image that many people try to create in th... | |
| Do you indulge when listening to your rig? Alcohol relaxes me, but music relaxes me even deeper. Why waste a good music session with alcohol.Bob | |
| Stylus Rake Angle This is some good hints on setting VTA. "Raise the VTA (raise the rear of the arm) and the highs will usually get better. Too much and you will lose the bass. Lower the VTA and the bass will get stronger. Too much and you will lose the highs."From... | |
| Review: Salk Sound SoundScape 8 Speaker "Hey, I ain't old (not mentally anyways, ) LMAO!!!"OOPS! My bad. I didn't intend to refer to you. I just phrased it badly. The "too"(as in also) was just was referring to adding another comment and not referencing any other person. I just added th... | |
| Review: Salk Sound SoundScape 8 Speaker Thanks for the report back on how your new speakers sound with Vinyl. With me, I was floored at how I could see through the vinyl format to the acoustic space of the musicians when I first got my SoundScapes. It just freaked me out. LOLFWIW, I am ... |