willemj
Responses from willemj
| Does a streamer do anything to the data that Tidal provides? As long as what they deliver is bitperfect digital output (they should and they nearly always do) there is no sonic impact (nor is there with computers). That is the thing with digital, a bitperfect copy is a bitperfect copy, and you can copy it a... | |
| What’s in your system today that you also had 10 years ago? Linn LP12 with SME 3009ii improved; Shure V15 iii replaced by M97XE (but hardly ever used anymore). At the time I had a Marantz multiformat DVD/SACD player, since replaced by a Panasonic Bluray/multiformat player that I will replace by an Oppo 4k... | |
| Full detailed sound at 30 - 40 - 50 dB I want to come back to the preference for tubes with high output impedance playing at low level. Why could this be? I have two explanations. The first is that a particular tube amplifier may have a non flat frequency response emphasizing low end a... | |
| The Harbeth phenomenon The BBC research department was sadly closed ages ago. For a few years their designs were still being produceed by license holders, but this gradually ended with the demise of successive manufacturers (it never was a very profitable business) and... | |
| The Harbeth phenomenon I am a fan of Harbeth: they are the only dynamic speakers that I have heard that are almost as transparent and invisible as Quad electrostats. My main system has Quad 2805 electrostats (plus a 400 watt powered sub) driven by a refurbished 2x140 wa... | |
| Is my Amp OK? Don't wory about cables and power cords. Properly designed electronics do not need any of these snake oil products. Benchmark supply excellent pro audio cables for a modest price, and so do other pro audio companies. Fancy power cords are even mor... | |
| The Harbeth phenomenon Alan Shaw himself argues that you need power, and the more the better. At a recent show in Hilversum in the Netherlands the power meters on the amplifier showed it was producing some 500 watts per channel to drive the M40.1 during peaks in the mus... | |
| Throughly disappointed with my new Yamaha A-3000 Integrated....... Good news, even if I am not surprised. Enjoy the music. | |
| Brands that have the least depreciation Or: which brands will you not want to sell for a very long time? Economically the best strategy is to buy once, and then enjoy for a long time. In audio real technological change is only slow. The only two quantum leaps that I can think of were th... | |
| Is my Amp OK? As for the effect on the high end market, that requires a rather different analysis. The economic theory behind that analysis is that of monopolistic competition, first developed by the late Joan Robinson in her 1933 The Economics of Imperfect Com... | |
| Is my Amp OK? Data are only data rather than factoids if arrived at by proper method. That is not easy, but imperative. What would be your method?By the way, I did my classes on the philosophy of science, and I did my 10 hours a week of Latin at school, so no ... | |
| Is my Amp OK? Its the method that counts, and what makes science science. Do you have data? | |
| Bi Amping my B&W Matrix 800s +1 | |
| Is powerfull Amps only for low sensitivity speakes? +1 Not that I ever use high sensitivity speakers - the refined ones that I like all seem to be low efficiency ones: both systems (Quad 2805 and Harbeth P3ESR) are about 83 dB, apart from the 86 dB Wharfedale Diamond 9.0 in the bedroom. | |
| Is my Amp OK? Ah cleeds raises his head again. Do you have experimental data? |