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| Ipod Dock with direct out????? Perhaps I don't understand the goal here. What needs to be "cleaned up" other than the jitter? And if it is jitter, does it need to be "cleaned up" before it gets "cleaned up" in the jitter-reducing apparatus? | |
| Ipod Dock with direct out????? Oops. Forgot to provide a disclaimer: no connection to any of the in the thread; I have neither owned nor heard any of the products mentioned (except the iPod). | |
| Ipod Dock with direct out????? Nrostov, Playing devil's advocate... could you not accomplish the same thing for less money (assuming that jitter elimination is done as adroitly) as the MSB by getting the Wadia and something like an Empirical Audio PaceCar (which would then also... | |
| Ipod Dock with direct out????? Is that MSB price for real? [Serious question] | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Dgad, you nailed it. The room, even treated, will likely produce more distortion to the frequency response curve than the speaker's curve is off-kilter in the first place. I would, however, take issue with people's ideas that horns "cop out" in th... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic Thanks exlibris. There are a few places in Japan with ridiculously large horn systems. I would love to visit a place like those on the ACA page but have no idea if any are open to the public... | |
| Help appreciated: Martin Logan Statement E2 The McIntosh 2kW specs suggest there are three output levels: 2, 4, and 8 ohms. I have never thought about the best way to deal with amp/speaker combos where the impedance range spans several taps on the amp. I have never heard these amps; I am su... | |
| Change to Horns or stay Dynamic I went from electrostats to horns, bypassing dynamic altogether. In doing so, I have found what I didn't know that I was looking for. The dynamics and "you-are-there-ness" are far ahead of dynamic speakers. Years on, I still get the shivers with c... | |
| Help appreciated: Martin Logan Statement E2 These speakers (and other MLs, have a somewhat ugly impedance curve, dropping into the 1s at the highest frequencies. You need amplifiers which will not 'complain' with an impedance drop to 1 ohm AND which have the power/magic to do what you want.... | |
| State of the art speakers from yesteryear. I had a pair of NS-10s. They were not what I would call one of the great speakers of yesteryear. Sure you don't mean the NS-1000s? THOSE were/are great. My parents still use theirs and they are wonderful. | |
| 'they blew'em off the stage' From my days growing up outside Philadelphia... a local band called the Hooters fronted for a lot of national bands and for a while, the conversation went a bit like this... "You going to see the Hooters this weekend?" "Yeah""Who are they opening... | |
| First used turntable +- $20,000. Any suggestions? I would say first and foremost that the original poster should actually start not by spending money but by spending time - listening to a variety of combinations of tables/carts/arms/etc. So far we have no information on his tastes, system, and an... | |
| EAR 869 Integrated Amp....opinions please Coolhand, I will perhaps try my EAR 859 again with my speakers. When I had it in with my Martin Logan ESLs (89db I think) the mids were great, and the bass was mushy. When I have the 859 hooked up to my current horns (which get their bass from dyn... | |
| EAR 869 Integrated Amp....opinions please I have the 859 and it is wonderful with the right speakers, as noted by Pubul57. The speakers have to be VERY sensitive I find (personally, I would say 98db or better).The 859 is the precursor to the 869. There is an extra tube in the preamp secti... | |
| AppleTV to external DAC? Thanks Steve, would feeding a (probably jittery) optical toslink-carried signal into a (probably jittery) signal path in a DD processor (like the Behringer) change the signal irretrievably because the two signals in series are without a common clo... |