shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| What is the best band ever? Traveling Wilburys - kind of an "all star" team | |
| Preamplifier power supply After 30+ years of listening I now feel that the size of a preamp power supply has no more to do with the sound of the music than the size of the woofer in a speaker. This might be music to your ears but it is probably even more music to a manufa... | |
| High End Monitors Lipinski 707's if possible FWIW - Bob Katz of Chesky fame loves them. Well worth an audition. Definitely "High End" and not your regular fare. | |
| Do speaker cables really matter? Kijanki,0.1 db at 20 Khz is not enough to be audible or to matter. Sure there are always differences between every cable of different design/configuration/size/length. The question is whether it is enough to be really concerned about. I would simp... | |
| High End Monitors Teeshot,Active or passive ATC SCM20's will be involving and yet still sound natural and transparent with a tight punchy bass (no one note boominess like you sometimes get in a ported speaker like the C1). If you like the artists to be in the room ... | |
| TWO POWER CONDITIONERS FROM THE SAME WALL OUTLET In parallel it should be ok (in the same wall socket). I would not recommend to connect two power conditioners in series (one connected to the other). | |
| MONSTER question (isolated grounds). What do you mean? Ground should be connected to neutral at the electrical panel in the house? Monster Power Center HTS 3500 MKII for my theater I have no experience with this model. However Monster power conditioner bars (surg... | |
| Klipschorn speaker set-up Paul Klipsch used false corners in his living room. I built a pair and they worked quite well Of course it wuill work, as the false corners will provide the necessary mouth to the folded horn for them to perform properly (of course room modes wil... | |
| Effective AC power conditioners for digital?? I have tried several devices and they all worked equally well. Perhaps my noise problem was minor. I think it is worth trying several devices and comparing. In theory once you eliminate the noise problem (does not change with conditioner) and your... | |
| External DAC for PS3 Charles,I'm in entire agreement with you. The gap - at least in digital - has narrowed in the past 15 years. This is the benefit of 25 years of digital. Many of the worst offending problems have been dealt with and one can now more blame the recor... | |
| Preamplifier power supply I think with saying that a passive preamp is a "terrible mistake" some of us would feel offended (btw, myself not included). Ooops sorry - good point. However, there is a good reason for OTL designs: transformers are simply not the greatest of de... | |
| Paradigm Studio 100 v1 Tweeter Swap Success I used a Scanspeak D2905/9500 1" textile dome tweeters. That is indeed a nice tweeter.The Vifa DG25AG35 is a not good tweeter particularly when driven hard. It has fantastic specifications and is cheap...that is all...it simply does not sound nat... | |
| Contrast Ratio? I agree with the above posters. I got swindled by Sharp!!!They claimed a 13,000:1 contrast ratio. Well FWIW - I can easily tell by comparing it to my Pansonic Plasma that this was pure and utter and total BS and lies. The contrast on an LCD TV's i... | |
| One sub, a two channel system ,one HT reciever ?? When you use the line level in and out you are using the crossover and rolling your main speakers off at the subs crossover point. On some equipment this can be a limitation yes. However, I think there are preamps out there that allow you to have... | |
| Preamplifier power supply Btw, some of the fellow Audiogoners use passive preamps (resistor or transformer based) with NO power supply at all --> do they have poor dynamics and bass response? This is a terrible mistake. You will not achieve high input impedance and low... |