soix
Responses from soix
| Svs sb17-ultra for music Personally I’d go with the Rhythmik E15 for about $1500 or the F18 for about $2k. | |
| 1 meter speaker cables With speaker cables shorter is better. One of the benefits of monoblocks is that you can use shorter cables. | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps @ozzy62 Same. It came down to doing full upgrades (with Gravity Base) for around $2500 for what’s basically a new and much better amp than I had or find something else for around $3k and risk I wouldn’t like it as much. I’m happy and likely have ... | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps @gdaddy1 Like I said I kind of remember Steve reversing that statement, but I’m not gonna go search for it. It’s a serious issue so you should just call them. | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps As a 30 year owner of a DNA 0.5 with deluxe upgrade, it’s good to hear from Steve Mc, that the board problem exists only in the 1.0. @gdaddy1 Unfortunately that’s not true — the input board on my DNA 0.5 Rev A failed after about 35 years and i... | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? I believe that you (and maybe Atmasphere if I misinterpreted his post) are implying that power cables of the same gauge can carry different amounts of voltage from each other? @jetter @devinplombier No, I was responding to the general assertio... | |
| Question for Atma-sphere, will expensive power cables improve your amplifiers? Why are you asking ’opinions’ about power cables instead of just asking what science and physics say, with quantifiable facts. POWER CABLES DO NOT CHANGE SOUND. @squared80 All one need do is use your ears you you can easily hear differences be... | |
| Silverline Audio I’m also a fan of Alan’s speakers and he’s a great guy to talk to. You should just give him a call. | |
| Sonus Faber Grand Piano Home for Mixed Genre? From my memory of listening to them a loooong time ago they’d seem to be the polar opposite in sound to your JBLs. I remember the treble being on the more polite, refined, reserved side while the mids were full and expressive and the bass adequat... | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps Steve still the best place to upgrade and recap if you still want to stick with the best sound from DNA. Don’t listen to bs Soix. I have good enough skill to repair and upgrade Krell, Adcom, DnA-1 and others @seattlerepairhobby Well good for ... | |
| Tube amp for Sourcepoint 8? What’s your budget, and are you looking for new or used? It’s really almost irrelevant what tube amps other people have run with your speakers because their taste may be, and probably is, different from yours so really the thing that matters most... | |
| Is Full-size speakers for L-R Rears advisable? You can go nuts with this, but if your priority is 2-channel and you just want a very good HT setup integrated into it without blowing big $$$ this is what I’d recommend. You can just use monitors for the rear speakers as the surround signal carri... | |
| Tube amp for Sourcepoint 8? From Stereophile’s measurements section of their review… The SourcePoint 8's specified sensitivity is 87dB/2.83V/m; my B-weighted estimate was the same. The SourcePoint 8's nominal impedance is specified as 8 ohms, with a minimum value of 6.4 oh... | |
| Speaker or amplifer That explains a lot. The REL has an 8” driver and only goes down to 30Hz at -6dB so is more like a woofer than a subwoofer, which explains why you’re not getting much slam. All you probably need is something like a Rhythmik F12G to get you what yo... | |
| Speaker or amplifer What sub are you using? It’s a little curious that you’re lacking slam while using a sub assuming it’s properly set up. |