thom_oz
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| The Medical Explanation Of Why You Are Addicted To HiFi Audio I had one of those 'gotcha' moments over the weekend listening to two Prokofiev Concertos (Ashkenazy, on London Records) from seventies vinyl. Floor rattling, 70 foot wide soundstage excitement for 40 minutes. | |
| Wanna take it to the next level? Buy MORE speakers! If I want SPLs I have four matching Vandersteen 2 in my living room. These are driven by a single McIntosh 2200 amplifier. The rear pair are wired in reverse polarity to the front pair. If I want laser-precise imaging and detail I have a pair of ... | |
| Do any McIntosh preamps have non digital filter for bass and treble? I'll be not helpful and say that my 1962 era MX110 and 1976 era MX113 both have analog treble filters. The MX113 sounds very modern too, albeit w/o any digital inputs whatsoever. | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album Horace Parlan, 'Speakin' My Piece', 2x45rpm Stan Getz and others, 'Getz/Gilberto' Impex 2x45prm Jennifer Warnes, 'Famous Blue Raincoat', 33rpm original. | |
| Is Recording quality the real culprit? @immatthewj "Without going back and looking for others, the two I am thinking of are the Cowboy Junkies first and second releases, Whites Off Earth Now and Trinity Sessions" If your gear is god enough you can hear (in Trinity Sessions) that Mar... | |
| $8k for speakers - new or used @wspohn Yep, slam and bass. Not my favorite speakers for under $8k, but the fill the OP's demands for sure. | |
| $8k for speakers - new or used @secretguy I own and enjoy my two pair of Magnepans, but "punch" and "bass" aren’t among their notable characteristics LOL | |
| Is "detailed" audiophile code for too much treble? I heard aa system at Audio Alternative in Atlanta GA about 10 years ago - Vandersteen 7 speakers, Audio Research amplifier, Genesis turntable (and it might have been a Lyra cartridge, not sure). The presentation came across as slightly darker tha... | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! This is great if you don’t mind someone else choosing the mastering / release version for you. I’m VERY picky about my cds, and of the half dozen versions out there of ’Captain Fantastic’ the only one I care to listen to was mastered in the 1980s.... | |
| Biwiring make any sense? Biwiring can change the load on the crossover components and change the phase characteristics of the speaker. Biwiring sounds cleaner, essentially - IF the speakers are designed to take advantage of it. Vandersteen 2 is but one example. Most w... | |
| MoFi or Harbeth (used) soix is right, the Ohm Walsh 2 are terrific for off-axis listening and i have a set in my bedroom. This said, I own the Mofi Sourcepoint 8 and it is enough bass for my living room, which is the same size as the OP's. The Sourcepoint 10 would have... | |
| What is your "holy grail song" that you cannot find? @judsauce I own an eighties reissue of that 45. You can’t be looking very hard, one can be bought off Discogs for as low as 60 cents. https://www.discogs.com/master/405124-The-Bubble-Puppy-Hot-Smoke-Sasafrass | |
| Speakers that disappear re: brummgon: I saw a relevant interview with Richard Vandersteen recently, in his opinion the speakers with the largest sweet spot are the ones with the worst phase accuracy, and they can't do pin-point imaging as a result. This is why his design... | |
| Speakers that disappear I have a pair of Magnepan MMG, Vandersteen 2 and Mofi Sourcepoint 8 all in my living room, hooked up to the same McIntosh amplifier (using a switch-box). ALL three pair do the disappearing act . . . but the listening chair had to be moved forwar... | |
| The dangerous world of Reel-to-Reel Tape This might be familiar to all but it bears repeating: Vintage BASF and EMItape don't sticky shed but Ampex does. The difference between these is formulation, and where the former two use whale blubber oil as a binder, Ampex used petroleum derivati... |