tweekerman
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| An electrocompaniet tale Don't understand your last line? What was your other digital player? Is this the ECM MK1 or MK11? Electro builds quality, thats for sure. Congrats on your Electro! I'm undecided on this player vs the Jadis ss player. | |
| What is the best "Carmina Burana" CD you've heard? Travis, thanks for the interesting notes. "world's most prolific orchestral tweaker", "channeling the composers intentions" = "improving", is something i needed to hear. I guess i could have read something of this in Stokowski's biographies. But y... | |
| Anyone hear Thiel CS1.6? Zaik, You are correct about some of my posts about particular drivers. I spoke on assumptions. I just took a $2200 hit on a 3 way DIYer design, built by a Madisound member. So i'm learing the..hard way. You're an ol'audiophilie, and have "heard it... | |
| Anyone hear Thiel CS1.6? Zaik, One purpose of this web site is to help guide us products that are real performers. I find your posts perceptive and entertaining. So speaking in a general sense, not to you... No amount of well!, expertly!!, talently!!! written hype by the ... | |
| What is the best "Carmina Burana" CD you've heard? Have not heard all 25+ recordings of the C.B., the Stokowski could very well take top performance. Listen to how Stokowski takes the tempo and detail through out, but especially in the close, hear the "undulations". ( Stokowski's genius!, he misse... | |
| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. Greg has made the best point in the old tubes vs ss issue. "unless you can spend mega$ on ss, the musicality will always be a little wanting, hidden". He is saying that tubes offer a dimension to the music that ss partly misses. Thus ss sound may ... | |
| Anyone hear Thiel CS1.6? Rbsteno and Labtec are hitting on a exceedingly important issue, The Hype Factor. Since most of us do not have access to hear alot of brands, we count on honest opinions. I'm not going to blast the Thiels, let the above opinions stand, and everyon... | |
| What is the best "Carmina Burana" CD you've heard? I posted a thread on favorite C.B., and got alot of votes for the Jochum. I would have to put this one first in most aspects. But the one that interests me most is the Houston S.O. performance with Stokowski at the podium. The chorus is not as goo... | |
| Anyone hear Thiel CS1.6? i'm going to make a point to get to Baton Rouge to verify what Cbucki is saying. Yes the D. Krall recording will make just about any speaker sound "nice", but what we're after here is a performer on just about any cd. Good of you to point out "abs... | |
| Is a offer of -20 percent on an OBO ad insulting? Maybe the seller has his thoughts that the asking price is more than fair, and that the buyer should be educated to know. What the seller fails to take into account is that there are always lots of Krells for sale. So its buyers choice. Seller is ... | |
| 4 ohm speakers with tube amps? I would never pay $2K+ for a 2 way, the Thiel 1.6. With the Thor you get 2 (TWO!) midwoofers/cabinet PLUS a "state of the art" tweeter PLUS one very beautiful cabinet, for less than... $2K. I'll post a review soon. | |
| 4 ohm speakers with tube amps? Yes, true. Worthless for my ideal set up. Could you say in general the higher the ohms and db level, then the better the sensitivity and thus less stress on the amp, especially a tube amp. Thus the lower the ohms, the less response from amp, the l... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century May i jump in here, Supratech vs Jadis JPL MK11, anybody? | |
| 4 ohm speakers with tube amps? Elevick, sorry to hear of your bad experience. I just financed a $2200 3 way speaker designed by a DIYer from Madisound. An absolute mess. 83db!!!, Not one good thing about this speaker, i sold them for $1K. That is funny though, 2.5 ohms! worthle... | |
| 4 ohm speakers with tube amps? Just took a closer look at the amp, on top of the gold colored plate on the output transformer, 0-4-8, so like the Jadis page said, engineered for any speaker load. Which makes me even more impressed with this amp. |