wspohn
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| What Does It Take To Surpass A SME V? I tried several arms when I got into the hobby, several decades ago, but at that time I judged the SME V to be the best choice and I still use them on a Sota Cosmos and a VPI TNT V in two of my systems. Setting up amd trying different arms with ... | |
| Ditching Class A Amps due to Heat - Sort of a Poll I own and use several Class A amps - collectively around 400 pounds of them. If they didn't sound better than most other amps they'd be gone in a second. But they do, so they stay. | |
| I've been selling heavier gear for lighter gear Light speakers tend to be flexible which can have negative effects on sound, especially in the lower registers. A lot of my gear is pretty heavy (100 lb amps, 450 lb. speakers etc). I didn't buy for weight, I bought for sound and the weight just... | |
| Which Solid State amplifier would you recommend for my budget? I still own a Rowland 5 but moved it to my AV system as it wasn't as smooth as the CJ Premier 11a I now use. Agree with the Belles recco, and some of the older Classe that is actually Class A are really excellent | |
| 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 |