shadorne
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| An Audiophile's journey I want an amp that is not speaker dependent. Impossible. However you can make a speaker pretty much independent of amplification by making it "active". In this case, the speaker includes the amp in the design process. This type design will playba... | |
| The eternal quandary How does that, er, sound? B.R. once said, "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." This kind of sums it up for audiophiles desacribing the sound from their systems. | |
| When is digital going to get the soul of music? Fear not... till Burnham Wood doth come to Dunsinane...More seriously...if this thread keeps going...how long will it be before the complete works of Shaespeare are typed? | |
| Best sounding Krell ? Steve,LOL. Yes - glad you get the picture! It does me good not to be taken too seriously. More seriously - is it true that the Krell do not use Op-amps? Wow that is some serious cost - most line level devices (pre-amps and input stages of power am... | |
| Confessions Simply Red.....I am so embarrassed! Good thing that when my system reach its final stages of refinement, these CDs were unlistenable for such compression! Huh? Picture Book is a very well recorded album - so they can't be all bad. | |
| Jazz Piano Trio / Spanish Guitar Good suggestions - here are a couple more pianists of high calibre...Dave Grusin - Homage to Duke - very nice classic Duke Elllington stuff - very melodic. Not your pretty Jazz trio stuff but more meaty material.Dave Brubeck Guitar ;-Gipsy Kings i... | |
| Best sounding Krell ? Perhaps when the ears are used instead of the eyes, the secrets of the KRELL can truly be realized. "But the Krell forgot one thing! Monsters! Monsters from the id!" Subconscious minds acting out their darkest urges, fueled by the machine's power... | |
| The eternal quandary I am thinking of passages in string quartets by say Schnittke or Shostakovitch. Indeed!! Russian composers are some of my very favorites - it is different from Bach, Vivaldi or Handel (dishwashing music to me - of course that is personal taste as... | |
| My speakers don't "dissapear" Based on your last post you need acoustic treatment bigtime - if you can't aesthetically treat a highly reflective space then don't throw good money after bad with expensive cables, IMHO. You simply won't be able to re-create that great sound in t... | |
| Dynaudio Cont.S5.4, Vienna A.Strauss or La Folia In your list - Dynaudio would be my preference by far. You should also look into PMC speakers - like ATC they are very dynamic but are tonally less forward in the mids and could be just what you are looking for. | |
| How can you tell when you need to replace tubes? With break-in often reported by audiophiles to be up to 1000 hours and power tubes lasting about 3000 hours it would seem to be a critical question that demands a precise answer. However, precision audio is a bit of a mystery - like cooking a grea... | |
| studio equipment that makes it into home hifi Much of the monitoring in the studios in your link, are relatively cheap, but sound good. I agree they are extremely good value if you can accept the awful and purely functional aesthetics (no nice elegant shapes and no nice veneers). Much of the... | |
| My speakers don't "dissapear" The living room is rather "live" so I should probably look into room treatments as well. Tile floor - BADCoffee table in front of speakers BADI assume your home is brick block/concrete with reflective walls - BAD (these do not breathe and they wi... | |
| Confessions Pamela's oratorio with Tommy's ensemble... | |
| My speakers don't "dissapear" You might try stuffing something absorptive into that slot, like a thin slice of foam, or otherwise smoothing it over (maybe just a piece of masking tape would help - or better yet duct tape, for that macho look) I wondered about that - it is an ... |