wolf_garcia
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| Do Bigger Speakers Mean a Bigger Window? I have a pair of Klipsch Heresy IIIs that, in their positions of about 7 feet apart and 9 feet from my earballs, create a large and satisfying soundstage...I thought the horns might beam somewhat but they go amazingly wide...short, fat speakers...... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Pointing out that Audiogon has a policy against a commercial sales pitch isn't trolling, or negative necessarily...it's just a fact. Look it up. Also, Frank has said he's a beta tester for both the TC stuff and the mats. In any case, goodbye mat t... | |
| Possible Upgrade If you pay the 10 bucks or whatever it is for Pandora's commercial free version, the higher quality of that version sounds fine if you have a good upsampling and re-clocking converter. Not my reference really, but for casual listening or backgroun... | |
| Which Subwoofer would you choose? Ditto for the used RELs...I have 2 I rave about here frequently and the first I bought was 200 bucks on Ebay (Q150e 10" front firing 150 watts and it's perfect) maybe 5 or 6 years ago, then a couple of years ago I found a Q108II (8" downfiring 100... | |
| Integrated Amp to match with Magico A3 Go for a Rogers EHF 200...Lifetime warranty, so there is the extra pressure to stay alive. Another note...a pic from someplace of a Magico factory tour showed a QSC GX3 300 watts PS pro power amp on a shelf...I wonder what they use that thing for.... | |
| Solid-state preamp with tube power amp There should be a limit on "thread time jumping." Old Dave Borda opined a decade and a half ago...his generalization has passed the expiration date. | |
| Schiit Vidar.... Anyone heard one yet? Nice post FANBOY...heh...sorry...I agree with all of that and if the Schiitsters attitude results in amazingly well made and affordable items from California (which is almost part of the USA), they’re pretty much unique in the stuffy and often pre... | |
| Schiit Vidar.... Anyone heard one yet? I use a Schiit Freya with a small single ended tube amp, and both (along with everything else) are plugged into a power conditioner with a timed power up and off feature...I've been using this thing (embarrasingly old Adcom 515 that works beautifu... | |
| Best speaker/system piano concerts Years ago I spent the day with an elderly English neighbor who had a pair of old Rogers LS3/5As and a Quad amp, and we listened to a lot of great vinyl piano stuff...a magic day. Although those speakers are hardly full range, the tone and coherenc... | |
| What speakers would be an upgrade from my klipsch la scallas and my Klipsch Chorus I spent a lot of time recently, post damping, listening to familiar stuff, and it does sound better...although I'm not particularly "tuned to the differences," it is an improvement seemingly to the clarity and mid range tonal coherence, and my ski... | |
| I am TORN between Tube power amp and SS power amp. My 12 WPC Had Inspire with 99db (allegedly) Heresy IIIs is the real deal. Everyone should own this sort of thing at some point, but Had only makes one every couple of weeks so maybe it's not possible. I run this amp a lot...background music while ... | |
| Who said “ flat freq response “ is the best? I think a bass hump was engineered in over the years simply to make bookshelf speakers seem more alive and warm. However, if it's not in there, and more accuracy is involved in the design, you can utilize subs to make up the difference. The bottom... | |
| What speakers would be an upgrade from my klipsch la scallas and my Klipsch Chorus So I carefully Dynamated (as opposed to dynamited, which would be too explosive) my midrange horns in the Heresy IIIs and it’s a nice but subtle improvement, although they were fine before the Dynamat operation and I did both at the same time so I... | |
| Who said “ flat freq response “ is the best? Speakers posting their frequency response often are challenged by measurement (for example, every speaker reviewed in Stereophile), with peaks and valleys here and there all over their range. This might not mean much if the designer listened to th... | |
| Who said “ flat freq response “ is the best? Speakers need to be "voiced," i.e. you have to listen to them. I talked to a speaker designer years ago who said that if you had the ability to adjust the various sonic parameters of a speaker from your listening spot (including cabinet materials,... |