shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| ATC SCM-35 Pitdog,I see your excellent system already has a good 150 WPC amp and you have installed this in a very large room with high ceilings. My two cents would be to go for something a bit more beefier than the SIA2-150 on the power amplification side a... | |
| Amp Question Please advise Antman27,I am not familiar with the Denon 3805 surround processor. I assumed that for two channel music that you program this Denon amp to send the audio signal also to the subwoofer as well as the left and right channels (many surround processors... | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE If you can afford it, I suggest you audition ATC 50's or higher. ATC's are typically used in studios where engineers spend long hours criticaly listening to music...many musicians/artists such as Tom Petty and classical composers such as Hans Zimm... | |
| tubes or no tubes Tubes tend to have much more harmonic distortion than SS amps.So it depends whether you like the added extra harmonics...some find this more musical...whatever you prefer .....music and almost all natural sounds are full of even harmonics anyway..... | |
| Amp Question Please advise I should think that the Denon 3805 at 120 WPC is enough for these highly efficient speakers (91 db at 1 meter for 1 watt), especially if your problem, as you have described, is at low listening levels.A bigger amplifier will ONLY help at higher ou... | |
| Amp Question Please advise You have great speakers but they have small base cones (I believe 2x6.5 inch on both fronts and an 8 inch cone on the sub woofer) and you have a large room....I suspect that this might be the base issue that you perceive at low levels.You also men... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Interesting discussion but I think the main point or lesson of DBT tests is being missed through the discussion of semantics and detail.DBT tests are significant for audiophiles because they show that, for the handful of those people and equipment... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? Pabelson,Thanks for your posts. Although I have never done blind tests, my experience with audio equipment matches the DBT reports perfectly. I simply can't detect audible differences between different cables, CD players and solid state amps provi... | |
| a great take on big$ cables Bigjoe,Here is my two cents...It is no secret that fantastic ultra expensive cables are 99.99% of the time totally unnecessary (both for speakers and for interconects and even for very expensive audophile equipment). Just as it is no surprise that... | |
| ATC SCM-35 Jbello,I agree with you ... a second hand Bryston with time left on the 20 year warranty is such great value....ATC's need and can handle some juice, especially in the smaller models, and a larger Bryston does the job very well! | |
| Best Value System Stehno,Interesting viewpoint. I am sure many, perhaps even the majority of people on Audiogon, will share your point of view....that a pragmatic approach used by professionals is non-sensical way to think about buying high-end audio equipment.Inde... | |
| Best Value System Thf,If "best value" is the most accurate CD sound reproduction at the lowest cost for a large room, then I have to agree with your suggestion. Any professional who works in a recording studio will confirm that the ATC SCM 100A is one of the long t... |