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| Gilmore Audio planars revealed Keith, I find it difficult to imagine a post like the preceding being written by anyone having no stake in the product in question. I can't recall ever having read so expansive a hypothetical analysis advocating a particular product written on Aud... | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... While I admit that I more admire, concerning this one narrow issue of specsmanship, companies inclined to understate measured performance rather than overstate it, there is gear which I am happy with in my own system from companies that I believe ... | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... Just a point of defining our baselines for discussion (to which rebuttals are welcome): I noticed some responses above seeming to imply that maybe companies like those taken to task here for making products which don't measure the way some people ... | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... I believe it was in the most recent Stereophile (same as the Radia review) that Michael Fremer gave the Theta Enterprise amps a conflicted but ultimately lukewarm pass. The head of that company, Neil Sinclair (whose digital gear I own and admire),... | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... Trelja: Tubes are go, thanks for asking :-)About the amp thing: The reasons I ask about your downward trend observation are, A) Because isolated anecdotes do not a trend necessarily make, B) Because lateral movement or running in place don't = "ta... | |
| Stereophile confirms new gear is getting worse.... Trelja: What leads you to conclude that amps in general have been "taking a dive in quality"?As for the linked AA thread, I think I'll skip it. I don't know if I would agree with any of the arguments made in it or not, but I just don't care enough... | |
| Review: KAB SL-1200 Fluid Damper Tweak Thanks for visiting this thread to post your impressions Mike. It sounds as if you heard pretty much the same improvements I did. Based on my experience with the TD-1200, I tend to think that any competing 'arm that lacks dynamic fluid damping may... | |
| Is there a SS amp that can offer tube bliss? How old is that memory? | |
| How to evaluate speakers? I would suggest three ways to go, two of which involve forming some kind of opinion: 1) Decide which speakers sound most enjoyable to you, using the music you most enjoy and will play most often, played at the volumes you will typically favor, and... | |
| proper way to a/b amps The SS amp will be OK if you just leave it powered up, whether or not it's hooked up to the speakers, but the tubed amp will have to be turned off before being disconnected from the speakers. However, assuming both amps are warmed-up when you star... | |
| Is there a SS amp that can offer tube bliss? Hmmm...I notice above that we again have the idea floated here that tube amps need 15 minutes to warm up, as if that were a relative disadvantage. Solid-state amps, in my - and many others' - experience, commonly need in the area of up to 8X that ... | |
| Records of the Year 2003 Don't go there girlfriend... ;^) | |
| Cobalt cable theory on bi-wiring. Fact or fiction? Jetkitty: Your admirably honest post prompts me to remind anyone who may have read mine, that I am not talking about audition results, because my Thiels will only accept single-wiring by design. I'm just stating my reasoning for suspecting that an... | |
| Records of the Year 2003 AI? Never seen it. Really. I mean that. Swear to God. (Wait a minute, I don't believe in God - well, just trust me: I absolutely cannot stand the overwrought, gratuitous melisma-mania that's supposed to pass for meaning and impassionment in pop vo... | |
| Cobalt cable theory on bi-wiring. Fact or fiction? Zoya, it has always seemed to me that for your position (sorry to refer to it that way, I know it's not an original idea with you) to even stand a chance of making any 'sense', one must first buy into the proposition that in a biwire setup, the am... |