wspohn
Responses from wspohn
| Record crates Your problem is why Ikea invented Kallax shelving! | |
| Types of Audiophiles Count me in as a purist. I want it to sound like...real music. | |
| Rear speakers, generally of lesser quality? If you mount side and rear speakers on the ceiling, and but speakers that are fairly flat, it becomes a non-issue. Take a look at something like the Vandersteen VSM-1, for instance. | |
| Why do Tube Amps sound more romantic v SS amps Hard to generalize - horses for courses. I just try a given amp out in a system and then compare with whatever else I have at the time and choose whichever set up sound s the best to me. I run all tube into some big Wilsons, but solid state into... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live Closest I have come is when I was playing solo piano on vinyl, and my wife who is a pianist was a couple of rooms over called out to me and asked who was playing (she knew that I don't play and thought that I had a visitor sitting at her piano. | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? I've listened to very expensive speakers driven by equally expensive power amps at audio shows and they sounded horrid, but f course the exhibitors claimed they sounded wonderful.. I tend to rely on my ears, not on what price is charged for the g... | |
| Most economical way to ship large speakers? I shipped speakers I had bought across country using a moving company. They were in three large crates that totalled 1100 lbs. so no other method would have been as good/economical. | |
| Listening chair height? With a tall speaker your seat would have to be on a ladder! I use quite tall Wilsons - they solve this by having vernier adjustment of the forward rake angle of the module carrying the tweeter - you choose your listening chair and then use a las... | |
| GoldenEar Center Choices: X, XL, or Reference center Hard to predict what will work best. I bought a quite good centre speaker (cost ~ $2K) and found that the system sounded better with a phantom centre generated by the two main speakers. Why not try without first and see if your speakers present... | |
| Best High Current amplifiers stable into low impedances I have one pair of bridged amps that puts out 30 amps (75 peak) into 1 ohm and 500 W into that load (when I bought them they were driving 1 ohm Apogee Scintillas) but they made less than 200 of them so I doubt you could find any. I have another t... | |
| What speakers have you mistakenly let go and then later repurchased? I never sold a pair and later wshed I had kept them. I just kept the ones I really bonded with. Still own (and use) Energy Reference Connoisseur, Martin Logan CLS, Vandersteen 4A, and Wilson Maxx 2 | |
| Recommendations please! Some of the Bryston preamps are quite good (and have remote capability). Or you can switch to a different used preamp that does have a remote - I use a CJ Premier 14 in one system - very nice sounding!! | |
| Ideal power cord lengths? So you have 1m from amp to wall? I'd be more worried about the 5 m of non audiophile approved wire between the wall plug and the main electrical panel, and then the 70 km of who knows what kind of wire between my panel and the power pole...... | |
| The Ventriloquism of Keith Jarrett The 55 version is fine - much less intrusive vocalization. And I would rather listen to either artist with vocalizations than not listen to them at all! IIRC, Oscar Peterson also did this a bit. | |
| The Ventriloquism of Keith Jarrett The first one that turned me off with vocalizations was Glenn Gould.- it ruined one of his recordings of the Goldberg Variations for me. |