undertow
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| Harsh Transport More than likely the denon, they are a bit lean and plastic sounding sometimes as transports.. I can tell you I have been bouncing around transports, many variations of the basic concept of a disc reader can render far different results, as of a w... | |
| Audiogon "Recordings to Die for" a complete summary Fiona Apple Tidal..... Many more, but a lot of good ones above, the new Beck The information is a super cool sounding album too.. Also Morphine, the best of disc I got has stellar sound quality.sorry for repeates but I don't think these were menti... | |
| Questions for specialists on “warmth” Newbee that does make sense, its cut short adding barriers that you hear as anylitical.. Something that sounds warmer seems to let notes decay with a slightly fuzzier tone or something, its not so cut and dry sounding, or very plastic. And then a ... | |
| Questions for specialists on “warmth” Warmth in my opinion is when you have the upper and lower mid's to blend a bit better with a type of harmonic distortion that is pleasing to the ear, vs. the excessive overly accurate and piercing sound, or overly defining something like a womens ... | |
| old vs new Well today is your lucky day, I owned all the pieces in your examples.. #1 SFL-1 was my least favorite tube preamp. I say look elsewhere, yes there are some newer units from small U.S. manufactures and other used units that are better in my opinio... | |
| Home Depot Ext. Cord for Speaker Cable The third wire could be combined with your Negative cable, it then has a thicker gauge to ground.. Will it make a huge impact on sound, probably not, but you can at least use the copper on hand.. It will not hurt it. I have actually opened many sp... | |
| Tube DAC to take edge off Rega Planet 2000 Yeah I doubt the Planet would be the problem... Look into possible cables, or the preamp. but since you are getting a mcintosh wait it out, those seem to solve a lot of over anylitical or less musical presentations anyway, so get the mcintosh firs... | |
| Dark Day For Hands On Music-Movie Buyers Qdrone, I was gonna say that the only good thing left at tower was the HUGE Magazine selection and the fact it was the easiest place by my house to get Tickets! I just did not want to start anymore wars, But your right that does not warrent the be... | |
| Dark Day For Hands On Music-Movie Buyers I admit don't know where you guys live, but the best buys in most of the chicago area actually have had more of the movies and CD's, ESPECIALLY DVD-A, And SACD in stock than both the large tower stores by me.. Now it is true that if a certain arti... | |
| Dark Day For Hands On Music-Movie Buyers Best buy, Walmart, and exactly Amazon and online put them out of business.. They are far Overpriced, I mean the one by me charges 28.99 a movie, and 18.99 a Cd? Why would anybody go and purchase from there when in the movie case you could get it f... | |
| Tube amp for rock? Newb Questions Sorry I did not see any price point given, and he was considering manley, so that told me in the used market that it was gonna be into the at least low thousands, around 2000.00 or so.. My mistake if stingrays and all that are far cheaper, By the ... | |
| Tube amp for rock? Newb Questions I agree with staying solid state, however you can get very close to tube sound.. Depending on budget, I Am into the EXACT same type listening you are, I would Seriously consider a Big Mcintosh Blue meter intergrated, find one local to audition, ve... | |
| Xover parts quality,/sound difference? I found that it works well.. But can't say direct comparison wise, because fact is the only reason I have had to move them out of the cabinet was physically if your gonna use the Best parts available they are literaly 5 times the size of a cheap c... | |
| Problem with sub amp? considering they are brand new designs by tyler why not get them involved? I had humming always when subamps were involved, plate subamps, but not as bad as it seems your describing, but this is sometimes the downfall to having active speakers wit... | |
| Ok this will be a good thread. Speakers will always have the biggest impact in sound, but both the source and speakers are equally important for the final signature.. Speakers of course will always make something sound far different guaranteed, but the question is what is most ... |