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| Live infectious funk jams....quality recordings This is 2% Jazz and 98% funky... | |
| New DAC Not a Dramatic Improvement? Thickness in vocals = jitter, IMHO. It is quite possible you have more jitter from your digital out of your CD/DVD player than if you were to use it as is with its analog outs. If you had a Benchmark DAC1 you would not have to worry too much about... | |
| Speaker Height - improved bass response. Speakers typically have a suckout between 200 and 300 Hz as well as other modal problems. Placing the woofers at a room boundary - as in a down firing sub is one way to deal with the problem. Another approach is to soffit mount the speakers. With ... | |
| Most agreed upon best speaker? The Yamaha NS10's were a great little speaker because it forced engineers to concentrate on ensuring the midrange sounded good. These were a big advance from the Urei and Westlake, Lansing horns used in the 60's. So I agree with Newbee that there ... | |
| Headphone Amps and Portable/Personal Stereo??? Get a Benchamrk DAC1 - it has an excellent headphone amp and you can feed it any old digital and it should clean up the jitter pretty good. If you like precision, clarity and dynamic sound then the Benchmark is great value - just no bragging right... | |
| Looking for info on headphones For ipod or computers and stuff with lousy amplfiers (most integrateds) then I find the Sennheiser HD25 Pro works great (low impedance and great dynamics + the cup cuts out external noise so great for hearing detail with only some slight artifacts... | |
| Newbie needs advice for upgrade. Here is a thought - try to find used Energy Veritas 1.8 (or others but the 1.8's were very good) and then get something like a Bryston 4B ST used to drive them. But watch out the neighbors may complain about the noise...so you had better invite th... | |
| Does speaker toe-in affect reflection points? Zargon is right - it makes no difference in the reflection point. However, if your speaker has a fall off in response off axis (such as a horn) then the energy being reflected may be lower by as much as 3 to 6 db when toed-in. | |
| Wilson Alexandria V2 FWIW - blowing the resistors is perhaps a good sign. If the output is clean and with ultra low distortion it is quite natural to want to turn it up...and up....and up. It all sounds just so natural and completely effortless. Many speakers just sou... | |
| Best Rock Albums in 2009, so far U2 No Line on the Horizon | |
| With $20,000 in your hand, what speaker would you Andy,The Watt Puppies are a classic but you might go for a 7 used. The 8's may give you some of the compression problems you mentioned that you had with the Avalon Eidolons.If you look at measurements the 7th plot down from the top you can see sig... | |
| Some of the Best speakers for Prog Rock/Metal You probably want something that does not sound harsh or forward. Look for a design with a midrange scoop ( a dip in the midrange response from 1K to 4K or in practice a speaker with 6" or larger midrange and with a tweeter crosssed over high say ... | |
| Balanced vs Single ended? Agree with Al. Balanced helps with ground loops as well as EM/RF. Balanced also runs at a higher signal level so it improves S/N. Balanced amplifiers are usually found in pro grade gear and can usually handle tougher loads with higher capacitance ... | |
| High End CD players give errors on copy CD's??? Since you have the originals (surely you did not copy 900 CD's illegally - I mean everybody has the odd CD they have shared with friends or burnt for the car but nobody would systematically do this - or would they?) then why not you use those. If ... | |
| Best "dark side of the moon" The 30th anniversary and SACD were done by James Guthrie (Das Boot Studio) on ATC's (same as what Pink Floyd use). The orginal (back in '73?) was done by Alan Parsons (on B&W's?). Rather than spend $500 on a pressing it might be worthwile look... |