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| What is the most difficult component to upgrade Strictly speaking I think the room is the most difficult. The present state of affairs makes finding a digital source to be most challanging. | |
| $150 Transport anyone? Why the fan? Does it run that hot? Is this just some modified computer drive? | |
| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. Perhaps nothing is accurate, but isn't fiedelity what we aspire to? | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? Josephaud, let me return the favor, (1) The fact that you seem to have heard this before suggests that there is consistent consensus in this regard. I was not comparing these designs to yours or any other particular ones. (2) I think we agree on s... | |
| Speaker priority: high or low??? Twl, no argument here. Well said. | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? Josephaud, to answer your questions: (1). Time and phase coherent speakers sound as though they are "cut from one cloth" with less noticible diferrentiating sound of different drivers and cross-overs. They consistently demostrate superior sound st... | |
| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. Specs like everything else in the world can be used or abused. I'm quite sure that the manufacturer used specs in the development of your tube equipment. Don't you guy's narrow down the field of appropriate equipment by power and impedance toleran... | |
| Speaker priority: high or low??? Am I understanding this right? Speakers are less important because they can't add to the musicality of the the sound. Are you suggesting that the upstream components are adding musicality to the sound? Or is it that subtractions at the end of the ... | |
| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. Zaikesman, yes I was referring to instrument amplification and your point is well taken. | |
| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. Asa, with all due respect some individuals "who after a long progression of evolution in stereo" say that solid state is better than tube because it's true to them. Often they say that while they were enamoured with tubes they felt the need to ret... | |
| Sand or Lead shot Tiny amounts of lead paint dust tracked into your home from shoe soles can cause severe health problems to children. | |
| Speaker priority: high or low??? What speakers can and do "add to the music that was not retrieved from the source or translated to the speakers", is the problem. Furthermore they can also subtract from "the music that was not retireved from the source or translated to the speake... | |
| Time coherence - how important and what speakers? There may be more than one way to skin a cat. John Bau's classic Spica TC-50 claimed time and phase coherence via this arrangement: slanted baffle with cossover: high-pass slope, approximately first-order, 6 dB/octave; low pass slope, fourth-order... | |
| Tubes Do It -- Transistors Don't. Many live events are heard via tubes. Perhaps that's why many feel that tubes sound more "life like". | |
| What music is not derivative? A lot of good posts here, especially Ben Campbell's. May I submit Ornette Coleman and John Cage. |