undertow
Responses from undertow
| tube Watts vs solid state Watts A Watt is a Watt.. No doubt.. This might be slightly off topic,However I have 20 watt tube monos that Shocked the H3LL out of me, that put out more clean power and musical response than 200 watt SS monos that by the way costed in the 4 k range. Tu... | |
| Spikes between speakers & stands, up or down? Shardone, not so concerned about coloration so much as "are we restricting" any kind of energy transfer that if it was coupled to the stand opposed to being decoupled from the stand as it is now with rubber possibly getting better results in the f... | |
| Morrsion loudspeakers ? Interesting, whats the Efficiency and whats the price on these? | |
| Spikes between speakers & stands, up or down? They are very heavy 1" plus Thick walls, relatively braced MDF with internal damping.. They are ported as well. | |
| Best HDCD cd's ? Regardless if good or not, HDCD easily competes with the best on many recordings, Problem is some of the best albums are done in HDCD however they stopped putting the symbol on the package of many recordings about 10 years ago.. I am still finding... | |
| Could use some help with a tough match Whats bad about Threshold's input impedence (75k ???Thats very high, and should work with basically any preamp.. Now if it was VERY low like 10k input than you would have a problem.. Just about any tube pre should match very well as most tube amps... | |
| Mundorf coupling caps Every question is answered here:http://www.humblehomemadehifi.com/Cap.html | |
| Turntable will share wall with 52" flat panel ... Honestly I have looked at the same situation in order to keep the turntable in the center under a panel tv mostly in order to keep all electronics, amps, etc... in the same area center of the room with as short of cables as possible. What we need ... | |
| DAC Recommendations "Lite DAC AH, it was okay, not great. But it won't decode 2 channel info from DVD's "Ecruz, not sure where this is happening, I have owned the unit and 2 friends have one as well.. All using DVD players as transports, they all play perfect 2 chann... | |
| How isolated is your hi-fi? I think all this opinion one way or the other truly in most cases lies on the "Female Factor" not only due to is it too much to have in the living room physicall, but does she really want to hear and see this thing as much as we would like to use ... | |
| ac cables falling out of IEC inlets on amps #1 the IEC is a computer industry connection, and is a bad but cheap choice for audio use and especailly with Monsterous sized power cables.. Why somebody decided to use this standard is beyond me accept it simply was an approved and abundant avai... | |
| How long can one go with interconnects to a cart.? Right I have seen both ways, a turntable in a closet somewhere system elsewhere, but normally I am sure they have a standalone phono pre near to the cart and then longer interconnects down to the main system. I think I have come up with a new opti... | |
| bass affected by stand filler level? Well, I will give a scenario of opposite proportions.. I have used Granite and Sand loading on top of speakers in the past... Granite really thinned out and added some extra level of precise flattened soundstage... Bass was actually a tiny bit tig... | |
| Crossover-less Speakers Mrtennis, Trust me were friends.. I have no issue.. Only point was I did not get the outright statement that had ZERO to do with the issue about this guy being a dealer or not,you just decided to attack for whatever reason something that just adde... | |
| Crossover-less Speakers Okay, I accept that "YOU DON'T OWN THEM".. You said it, so obviously you just wanted to get a response on a thread that had nothing to do with you observation anyway. Actually this conversation had nothing to do with the sound of a product, but yo... |