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| XLR to RCA conversion The bigger question is whether you can really improve the sound by adding more connections?So your Manley is not a balanced design and using the XLR input adds one more stage of conversion for the amp. But is this really inferior to using 2 more c... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A I agree Sonus Faber site can use some improvement. Afterall, they are selling electronics.But Italian thinks differently, they think of their creations as art and can't be captioned with spec or description. They want people to judge their product... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A Good point. We are here to help each other and many of us feel Amati reproduces music in a very special way regardless what the current industrial measurements indicate. When you measure a real Guarneri vs. a $500 violin, there will not be much of... | |
| Teac DV-50 or modding Sony SCD 777 ES Very good point, Pinox67. I don't own any DVD-A, but that doesn't mean SACD is winning the race 5 years from now. But the thought of using an universal player for 2-ch audio is still a waste... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A Since someone likes to pick fight, here is one for you.So Ferrari uses Pirelli on their cars, does that make Pirelli the best tires on earth?Many classical recording studios use B&W 801 III, does that make B&W 801 III the best speaker on e... | |
| Best overall Speakers for $2,500.00 or less, New? Dynaudio Audience 72 or 82. | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A I suspected Stevecham was the same guy who worked in Music Lover Audio who bashed everything and discredited anything they didn't like. They claimed Dunlavy and Spectral were the most accurate products out there and anything else were not worth li... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A Ok, I have to speak in order to stop people like Stevecham from making incorrect claims.Sound speed is definitely freq dependent. But in order to truly make a speaker time correct, you will need to have infinite number of drivers to cover each fre... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A We should be able to tell Stevecham's taste from his gears - Krell pre + power w/ Thiel. Nothing personal, but something a lot, and I do mean a lot, of audiophiles will stay away from. Ahh, enough said. | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A Funny how some people think one "data" equals to a fact. When reviewer measured speakers, do they measure them at listening distance, say 6'? No, it's more like a foot away. How sound and freq propagate over a longer distance is a complicated equa... | |
| What's your profession? Age? 35, semiconductor yield specialist. Started this hobby at age of 20, it's been a long 15 years. | |
| Next Biggest Improvement after Speakers ? Allow me to summarize everyone's point. They are EQUALLY important, you can't cut short anywhere. | |
| Dynaudio Special 25 vs Sonus Faber Extrema I have owned many Sonus Faber (including Extrema) and Dynaudio Confidence 5 in the past. Very different speakers, as anyone would guess. SF is more musical and warmer sounding, Dyn on the other hand is more detail and truer to the recording even t... | |
| Sonus Faber Amati Homage versus Vandersteen 5A Beauty of Amati is in the integration. Vandersteen 5 is nice, but it's also a problem by leaving the owner to tune bass freq and output. If tuning those two parameters were so easy, why would anyone on earth want to buy big speakers when they can ... | |
| Clueless and Seeking advice on TT purchase I own a VPI Scout. I don't know how good the Scout is, but I feel the JMW-9 that comes with it is world class. Very rigidly coupled to the plinth, very fine bearing (if you can call it a bearing at all), and fine construction. In fact, I bet you c... |