whart
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| What most important in the sound of your cables? There is a pretty big difference between the first version of the Veloce line stage and the second, so-called "Lithio" version; the circuitry, the tubes used, and in my trials of both versions in my system, the ultimate sound of the product. I ult... | |
| Most overrated audio manufacturers? Paladin: Unfortunately, even a Bugatti today isn't a Bugatti in the sense of the original marque. The pre-war ones, particularly the racing cars, are truly special. (And without trying to sound condescending, because I'm not and actually love old ... | |
| My LED ZEP 2 pressing anything special FWIW, I just got a first press UK a2/b2 of LZII- it is, as the rockitman and jsman both said, a really worthwhile, 'go to' quality sounding pressing; I find it darker sounding, overall, than the 'RL,' has profound bass and real image depth; it als... | |
| Most overrated audio manufacturers? Runnin, maybe that's true, but what you just described is perfectly consistent with what I was referring to~ the 'delta' between the hype and the reality. | |
| Do you put as much effort into your Car Audio? Short answer: No., but I don't spend a lot of time in cars anymore.Long answer: Yes, I put a lot of effort (or at least money) into it at one point.One system was pretty elaborate, and since it was my first oh,la-la sport car from that company in ... | |
| Most overrated audio manufacturers? Hype alone is not the evil. This reminds me of a book called "Bad, or The Dumbing of America" (Paul Fussell) published in 1991, where he describes the real sin being the 'delta' between the hype and the reality. So many of the products mentioned a... | |
| Sloped baffle Wasn't Jon Dalqhuist's DQ-10 an early attempt at time coherence? And, ditto, Wilson's Franken-speaker, the Whamm?It's been so long since I heard either speaker I couldn't say how either stands up today. My concern, in theory, would be that multipl... | |
| Back on Black: LED ZEP 1-3 Low, sorry, I've been on an iPad and those aren't really hyperlinks. You'd have to copy and paste the whole data set in to get to the threads. But, if you do a couple searches on the Hoffman site itself, with respect to LZ CDs and remasters, I thi... | |
| Back on Black: LED ZEP 1-3 Low- this may just add to the confusion, and since I never focused on the various CD versions of Zep, I can't really comment. But, apparently there have been a number of remasters on CD over the years, and post #41 in the first link below addresse... | |
| Back on Black: LED ZEP 1-3 I thought Page's whole pitch was that a (digital) remaster hadn't been done in 20 years. I suspect Mothership (which I did buy on vinyl when it came out) was probably derived from those older digital masters. I haven't compared CDs of Mothership (... | |
| Taralabs cables Calvin- I have the line stage (the 2.0 version) and it sounds terrific in my system. The guys behind the company are also good people. | |
| Paint that helps diffuse sound? Stealth paint- iron balls, nano-tech, etc. to make aircraft invisible to radar. I think it absorbs, rather than diffuses. To paraphrase Michael, the thing i find incredulous is the line about building a house to 'house his own organ.' But, I'll le... | |
| Thinking of putting to rest ESL63 for Harbeth M30. I still have my original pair of Quad 57's, which I bought used back in the early 70's, as well as a pair of Crosby Quad 63's, which I bought circa 1990. Although I switched to horns in around 2006 (and love what they bring to the proceedings), I ... | |
| Phase inverting problem Lacee- I'm not able to answer your technical question about whether the number of stages causes some sort of phase inversion, but I can tell you, based on my experience running a Steelhead for a number of years that:1. It sounds better if power is... | |
| My LED ZEP 2 pressing anything special Fjn- the George Piros (GP in the deadwax) copies should be pretty good- his remaster of LZ1 from the mid-70's is really excellent. Short of finding a clean, unmolested copy of the 'RL' of II (which is expensive even for VG +or- copies and not easy... |