shkong78
Responses from shkong78
| Vintage vs Modern speakers. How about this one using Line Magnetic 508 instead of Cayin 300b pp amp to drive main tower. | |
| My last audio purchase? By the way I bought used Scaena 3.2 30 months ago. But I could assemble it only last Friday. This could be my last speaker. Thomas | |
| My last audio purchase? Congratulation It will be nice of you to attend Pacific Audiofest held on July 29-31. https://www.pacificaudiofest.com If necessary we can share car pool. best Thomas | |
| Vintage vs Modern speakers. @audition__audio Main tower of Scaena is easy to drive even with low power tube amp since it is very efficient at 93db/w. But two 18 inch subwoofers need lot of power. I use Crown XLS 2502 Thomas | |
| Vintage vs Modern speakers. @twoleftears What do you think of the sound regardless whether it is Altec or Scaena. thanks in advance Thomas | |
| Vintage vs Modern speakers. One more song to tell whether the music is from Altec A7 or Scaena 3.2 | |
| Vintage vs Modern speakers. @twoleftears I could do it later. Now it is kind of blind game. Thomas | |
| Vintage vs Modern speakers. I bought used Scaena 3.2 on Jan 2000. But due to Covid break, i could not assemble main towers for 30 months. I appreciate Rick’s help in assembly of it last Friday. During the time, I had been using two Scaena 18 inch... | |
| Subjective grading of DAC that I had heard during last one year period. Erik and I had set up Scaena 3.2 yesterday. I appreciated his help a lot. After assembly of Scaena, we had done brief comparison between Ideon and Dave. Now the difference is substantial. Scaena 3.2 give very wide and deep holographic images. ... | |
| Subjective grading of DAC that I had heard during last one year period. Beethoven Violin Concerto played by Chung Kyunghwa using Ideon Absolute Dac. | |
| Subjective grading of DAC that I had heard during last one year period. About three years ago, I wrote some comparison of Dacs that I had auditioned seriously at the shops. If I include Ideon Absolute which I am doing audition at my home., I would give 97 points just below MSB Select II. This one sounds neutral... | |
| The New Synergistic Research Purple Fuses I replaced Synergistic blue fuse (which I had used for 3 years) with purple one in Line Magnetic 508 amp. It seems to make substantial improvement without break in. It make sound faster with sharper focus but not overdone. Thomas | |
| DAC recommendation in 5 to 10K range Another option you can consider is to add Gaia DCC to your Dac. It will make focus sharp and treble more clean. Thomas | |
| Horn speakers are really bright? Does this sound bright? It depends on how you tune it. I use Pap c1 active crossover and biamping to drive Altec A7 Good luck1 Thomas | |
| How Much Do Your Subwoofer(s) Cost Relative to Speakers Actually I can do without subwoofers with my Altec A7. But they give little bit of more oomph. Thomas |