sean
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| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers No, using multiple woofers is not the culprit. Poor design skills, using too small of a cabinet for the given drivers and not enough internal damping material inside the cabinets themselves are the culprits. Larger cabinets produce resonance at a ... | |
| What type of copper is best for power cable? If you are looking for IEC connectors, you probably won't find them anywhere locally unless you get lucky. Pretty much a mail order item for decent quality plugs.Solid copper is ALWAYS superior to stranded copper in every way other than in flexibi... | |
| WHOA This isn't what I expected. Elgordo: Nelson Pass didn't design the Nakamichi "Stasis" series, Nak simply payed to use technology that Nelson had patented. Having said that, you can't judge any amp with significant levels of bias right out of the box and / or "cold". Leave it... | |
| Adcom GFA-5802 -vs- Parasound HCA-3500 Amps? Ehoehn: Hmmmm... i must be confused / getting senile. I thought that the 5802 also had fans. I can specifically remember the 5800's having dual fans ( one per channel ). Either way, thanks for correcting me. Sean> | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Mejames: I have a LOT of respect for John Dunlavy even though i disagree with his point of view on the audibility of wire / cable changes in a system. Having said that, there are certain parts of his speaker designs that needed help. He acknowledg... | |
| DD DTS THX.............. Many newer movies are recording using DTS from what i've seen. Can't remember the specifics but i know that DTS uses less compression allowing greater dynamic range. Sonically, it is superior to either THX or AC-3 aka "Dolby Digital". I won't say ... | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Twl: I think that there is a BIG difference between poor tonal balance and proper timbre. Tonal balance has to do with frequency response linearity. Timbre has to do with pitch, harmonic structure and transient response. Judging from what the mark... | |
| Adcom GFA-5802 -vs- Parasound HCA-3500 Amps? This is a great comparision between products designed by two of the best audio engineers out there i.e. John Curl with the Parasound and Nelson Pass with the Adcom. As has been stated by both John and Nelson, they simply provided the design for th... | |
| Favorite Music When Having Sex Brian: I don't think that the song that you selected is a tune that you play while the woman ( women ) are actually at your place. That's more like a song that you listen to before you pick them up : ) Sean> | |
| Last Speakers Aerial 20T or Vandersteen 5A According to the Stereophile review of the Aerial's and what i know of the Vandersteen's, the 5's would be a better choice in ANY given room. Not only are the Vandy's WAY less money, they provide at least two distinct advantages over the Ariel's. ... | |
| Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder Vortex: Your first post was LOADED with good tunes. Having said that, i've got to call you on Thin Lizzy. What about "Jailbreak"??? : )You're listing of the Easybeats made me think of the band that they became later in life i.e. Flash and the Pan.... | |
| Who Was Your Favorite One Hit Wonder There truly are some great tunes listed here. With as good as they sounded, you have to wonder how they never came up with any others.On the other hand, Odavid9 hit it on the head. Some of you folks are cheating BIG-time. That is, many of these ba... | |
| Can I use a Denon DL103 with FR64 tonearm? Is it a That specific Denon works best with a high mass arm. From what i can recall, i think that the arm that you mention falls into that category. If it is an S or J shaped arm with larger diameter tube, you should be good to go. Maybe Twl, Albert or an... | |
| Full sounding Bookshelf speakers music only See if you can find an old pair of Genesis Physics speakers in good shape. These are NOT the "Genesis" speakers designed by Arnie Nudell. Any of the following models are capable of potent bass response with clean mids and nice sounding treble. The... | |
| Break-in period for new speakers - sealed boxes We've had this disc playing up into the 90+ dB range for multiple days non-stop. So long as you have well built gear with adequate ventilation, this shouldn't pose a problem at all. It would be no different than playing very wide bandwidth music o... |