shadorne
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| MBL alternatives Beolab 5 - not my cup of tea but excellent tight bass, lovely wide soundstage and they look awesome. | |
| Best all around speakers That's because source material is recorded and mastered using all kinds of different-sounding equipment, such that there are all kinds of variabilities in the sound of source material--with an end result being that some source material is going t... | |
| Kef 104/2 Replacements Agree with above ATC, Harbeth, ProAc, Spendor - british sound. I would say Harbeth's would be the best fit. Definitely audition the new Harbeth Compact 7. ATC SCM 19's would make even better use of that beefy power amp, although I think the Harbet... | |
| Diffraction be gone a smoothing of peaks and valleys from 2k to 5kHz can be seen from 1 to 3db resulting in a much flatter response curve. That would be expected. linkwitz lab diffraction measurements show that anything that reduces edge diffraction (smaller baffle,... | |
| Scratchy distortion on last tracks of CD When CD data cannot be read then it can often be perfectly reconstructed with error correction. When the CD is badly pitted (CD Rot) then the data can no longer be reconstructed using error correction and the player often interpolates between one ... | |
| Best all around speakers So isn't the fact of the matter then that there are many speakers out there that handle a wide variety of music types well, if not perfectly in all cases? I'd fully agree with "there are many speakers out there that handle a variety of music type... | |
| Directional interconnect cables Here's some food for thought Food? Sure I'll have a slice of pie. Man this liqueur is heady stuff.As for directional interconnects, let's stick to hard facts - the connection is key - and everyone knows that either way round works. Although a shi... | |
| Best all around speakers I understand the limitations of the Quads in particular, but there are other large speaker designs out there that cost a lot more that should be able to handle everything extremely well including the things the Quads excel at, don't you think? Su... | |
| Another Speaker Selection Thread... Pink Floyd/Gilmour and Robert Plant use ATC but your amp would barely be enough for SCM 19's/20's. They can fill a large room (with more power) and the sealed box makes them suitable for placement up against a wall - worth checking out perhaps - t... | |
| Best all around speakers Either speakers are accurate or they're not. The picture is rather less black and white than you paint. I suspect most audiophiles will agree that speakers vary by degrees with none being "accurate" when compared to most electronics. I've never u... | |
| Best all around speakers I second Fafafion and Bongofury but with a caveat - there really is no "best" - just horses for courses.I'd add a comment that Harbeths are (to my mind) slanted a little towards easy listening whilst ATC are slanted a little towards rock/jazz/big ... | |
| Which speaker for my system? I've not heard your Audes...so take this with a pinch of salt.If you like the Audes design (which looks like a very sensible use of the drivers - although the midrange might be crossed over a wee bit too low for clean low distortion at higher SPL'... | |
| Balanced Interconnect Cable for ATC Active Monitor Telarc have been long used Monster Cable M1500, M1.5, Series I & III Prolink, Pro-1000 and Music Interface Technologies Proline Balanced IC's. Typical gear used: Mix: Sonoma 24 DSD (AtoD custom converters by Ed Meitner), Preamp: Ed Metiner's S... | |
| Directional interconnect cables It is only the practitioner that is forced to assume that tested and undisproven theories are facts. A true scientist realises nothing is ever proven I find the theorising here, by both sides, as pointless too ...and might that include your own ... | |
| What makes up an Dr Floyd Toole during his NRC days found three things were important to listeners (they performed rigorous tests). Wide Dispersion, flat frequency response and low distortion. I'd propose that this is a basic requirement but there is a lot of chea... |