shadorne
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| Random thoughts from a sort of, kind of audiophile Slaw, Mesch No not all buy on our own tastes. I use my ears like everyone. However I follow professional golden ears too. My logic is that although I am confident that I have good ears, I trust MORE the equipment used for 30+ years by a multitude ... | |
| Focal 1037BE; All-Rounders Extraordinaire! I prefer Focal to B&W - better mid range on the Focal. Both generally suffer from resonant ported bass because that is what sells and sales are more important than precision to these highly succesful companies. B&W mid range is not quite o... | |
| Starting over with vinyl If you go vinyl, I would recommend a vintage Japanese table from the golden era. Late 1970’s. I got a refurbished one with burl magnolia veneer to match the speakers. It is manual (not much to go wrong), sounds great and looks good too. For as lit... | |
| What do you think of soundbars compared to speakers? Sound bars are speakers as far as I know. Just small speakers that are inadequate for anything except a small improvement on most poor quality TV built in speakers. For every day listening I think they provide an excellent option but when watching... | |
| Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3 @paraneer On Marantz and Luxman, yes I agree they do make some excellent top of the line gear and vintage gear hence their deserving historical reputation However i hope you will agree that it is scary that Marantz put their brand name on the low... | |
| Focal 1037BE; All-Rounders Extraordinaire! Agreed. Focal have done a great job - one of my all time favourites! I find the bass response a bit resonant or leaning towards one note bass - somewhat like the Watt Puppies and other Wilsons. However the success of this style design with listen... | |
| Any Rotel love around here? Looking to power my Sonus Faber Olympica 3 Rotel are excellent - not a dynamic punchy sound but smooth. NAD make a nice option and you will like the look and similar sound but a bit more dynamic:NAD C275BEE with C165BEE is good value.The power amp is a tank with massive power supply. I wou... | |
| Random thoughts from a sort of, kind of audiophile Agreed Broadstone, some things make an obvious difference and others make hardly any difference at all. Careful what you say about cables and interconnects or raised cables - there are many here who can hear what should be 10 impossible things eve... | |
| Now it's subs +1 JL is good. Be wary of anything else - the vast majority of subwoofers are not suitable for music at all. It is all entirely about the quality of the woofer in the sub (JL make excellent woofers with long linear excursions) and EQ is just icing... | |
| Volume Increase of decrease as system improves Distortion is interpreted as loudness so less distortion means louder will still sound good. You need a good recording without distortion as well as a large dynamic range to want to crank it and still find it engaging and enjoyable. | |
| Listen...chair Best not to have a headrest as that will screw up the sound reaching your ears - apart from that whatever you find comfortable!!!! | |
| Why pay so much for super high end? Douglas,Darwinian theory is not poor science. It is actually very good observation and a theory formulated long before we had an understanding of DNA. However, with an understanding of DNA and viruses I think we now know today that Darwinian theor... | |
| Evolution Acoustics MM2/MM3 I don't see your virtual system - very hard to comment without any idea of your setup. Sounds like your Rockports are not working for your needs if you desire adjusting woofer and tweeter. | |
| RIP Sharon Jones RIP - love everything she did. Lucky to have seen her live too a few years ago. Love Daptone. | |
| Your Go to CD to Impress Taj Mahal's cover of Honky Tonk Woman Bob Dylan The Man in the Long Black CoatEva Cassidy Stormy MondayKeb Mo Soon as I get PaidDirty Dozen Brass Band Don't you feel my leg |