tomic601
Responses from tomic601
| Anyone has a reference system where amplification is SS ? i would say evaluating the level of a long term audiogon poster / lurker / past poster by reading what they have in the system and have to say is a fools errand…. i typically hear 2-4 different systems a month… Get out more….. BTW my reference a... | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? and IF you can’t hear how an amplifier destroys temporal information, try getting your system in phase… and or considering a speaker that passes the impulse test… Since getting the electronics in phase is free, start there…. | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? As for a Hybrid amplifier that i find passes the LONG term musical listening test, I can recommend 3: Vanderteen M7 HPA, Aesthetix Atlas, Music Reference RM-200 there are of course more….. | |
| What is meant exactly by the description 'more musical'? the some people don’t like the Strad comment was all about taste… The ear brain is king but tastes are the puppet master for most all of audio… and more.. Interesting , some people can hear negative feedback = TIM and simple temporal distortion ... | |
| Help with streamer software @lalitk ….now that last word “ done “….. really cracked me up…… i will set my timer….. do so appreciate ya ! | |
| Ideas for Pre/Power $9000? just start looking at Echo website..lots of great deals on many many brands of used gear….. | |
| True high-end Speakers need a midrange Scanspeak + Vandersteen cones in balsa + satellite grade CF = ahhhhhh | |
| Ideas for Pre/Power $9000? +++++ for Kurt and team at Echo… they have a sledgehammer Pass amp right now at a very attractive $$$$$ pair that w ARC preamp, some decent cables and you can run most any speaker WELL..on the planet | |
| True high-end Speakers need a midrange impulse at various SPL will tell you what you need to know. The german laser scanner of the cone will tell you why. This of course, if the definition of true high end = accurate to the input signal. | |
| Go ahead, hang blankets on the side walls. You’ll be amazed. When i do a room that needs absorption…i first focus on a broad band panel, which is deep, otherwise a blanket or rug is pretty narrow band…bit of a tone control…but the RT60 by frequency will show you this… Deep panels covered by blankets and rug... | |
| Go ahead, hang blankets on the side walls. You’ll be amazed. meanwhile…i am building out the dedicated Piccolo cappela of diffusion…. services conducted nightly congrats to OP | |
| Can you live with your current speaker until you die? Elliott - wow…that Rosewood is something else…..love it….. OP with your celebration in Korea, you have already hit the lottery | |
| How long does it take your tube amp to warm up? what might be a better ? to ask is do those big exotic caps and or cables ever form with the relatively tiny signal… ? see DBS patent… and ponder that the application of it might not be limited to just cables….. | |
| How long does it take your tube amp to warm up? 30 minutes for my heavily modified MC240….. vintage 1961 | |
| WHY IS THERE SO MUCH HATE FOR THE HIGH END GEAR ON AUDIO GEAR? @hilde45 and a good many of them seem he$$bent on wrecking the planet and finding another….. Perhaps like a pareto optimal utility function, there is a Lagrange point for ego….. |