shadorne
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| When showing your system to others, what do you do Ferrari,I expect studios have very different electronic gear needs from home audio playback systems but what about the speakers?Can you describe any of the speakers that the creme d'la creme use in these awesome systems you have heard? Listed belo... | |
| Tubeguys:How much "tube sound" from tube players? Unless the tube is partly clipping then you really won't get the nice tube sound effect...I would stick with a tube amp if you want to get the most from tubes. | |
| what makes a tube sound the way it does? Tubes are used a lot in recording studios for miking and also for mastering....that pleasing tube sound can improve a "thin" sounding mix...it can also act as a limiter to reduce dynamic range on a studio mix in a very elegant way. Studio miking w... | |
| what makes a tube sound the way it does? Tubes overload easily. Tubes sound nice in overload. They act like a compressor. They add lots of the right kinds of harmonic distortion during overload and this can make a pleasing sound. It can even make the music more audible to our ears/brain ... | |
| Am I a burning out audiophile???? Could be the post honeymoon blues? Those new anticipated expensive Totems or something else in your life, much deeper... The move to the upgraded system was initiated by my desire to listen to more music with my wife. Today, (and last night, and t... | |
| what is good music? Henryk,Aha now we are getting somehwere.But what is the first place? Is it the chicken or the egg? | |
| Am I a burning out audiophile???? Let me hazard a guess....Perhaps you are facing diminishing returns...a good $1000 speaker (Arros) can do a pretty good job when well placed in an appropriate small sized room with unchallenging material like female vocal and acoustic guitar. Unde... | |
| My digital front end outdoes my analog..... DNA (the Double Helix) is inherently of digital-like construction. It may not use ones and zeros but it has a very limited set of exact states that are strung out in an almost endless string (rather like bits on a CD). DNA is an extremely robust w... | |
| Many reviewers will lead you down the wrong path. Reviewers are unfortunately all biased. Some depend on advertizing revenues for the audio magazine they are affiliated with or freelancing for. Or they already own the equipment and are predisposed to like what they have shelled out $$$ for (proud... | |
| Speaker recomendations please I would hazard that Energy Veritas 2.3 or 2.4 might do the job well...definately weight at the bottom end on those. (Second hand of course...good value IMHO) G'luck! | |
| My digital front end outdoes my analog..... I gather from this thread that if Digital sounds as good as Analog, then the Analog system must have a problem. (Analog inherently should sound better...only a lot more expensive right?) Perhaps my analog system in 1985 was not very good when I ma... | |
| Von Schweikert VR4 SR IV While I agree that many (perhaps most) consumer speakers sound compressed especially at high levels (horns are much better in this regard). I am not sure you necessarily have to go to a horn speaker design to create the SPL levels and dynamic rang... | |
| Von Schweikert VR4 SR IV A nice upgrade. However, you might also consider a higher model PMC with a bigger woofer. It really depends on what you dislike about the OB1's? (Value for money the OB1 is quite hard to beat in its price range.) My suggestion would be to audition... | |
| Music out there with good bass Prodigy - Fire StarterCollective Soul - HeavyLorin Maazel and Cleveland Orchestra - Shostakovich Fifth (especially the end with the kettle drums)Eric Kunzel - Jurrasic Lunch, Batman, TerminatorPolice - Murder by Numbers | |
| Sound Quality or Convenience? Kthomas,You are right! It may indeed be time to consider the hardrive option... a new project...fun! |