zaikesman
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| Gilmore Audio planars revealed Sorry Keith (I actually was going back and forth between Keith and Kevin in my mind and thought I remembered right, but I guess I should've just stuck with "KF"). You can call me Alan, Eric, or Alec, which seem to be the most popular corruptions o... | |
| Gilmore Audio planars revealed Kevin, what you report is quite tantalizing, even if the manufacturer has optimized everything to show off his product in the best possible light (and why wouldn't he), and especially considering that you were listening primarily to the second-tie... | |
| Records are better. I actually heard it Well, I guess I'll trot it out again: No one could accuse me of having a digital bias, since my vinyl collection positively dwarfs my CD collection. But the fact is, of the material I own in both formats, some recordings sound better on LP, some o... | |
| What does it sound like to over drive my maggies? The Maggies can be overdriven in the bass, which it sounds like you are doing, but as long as you don't persist into the realm of abuse, you shouldn't be damaging them with some ocassional overexuberance. These are great speakers, but not exactly ... | |
| Review: Classe Audio 70 Amplifier Well Ferrari, you did say "for me, this is as good as it gets for class-A/AB amplifiers", which I took to mean all class-A/B amplifiers, which means the vast majority of amps on the market. That's a pretty strong endorsement, even if you limit it ... | |
| Gilmore Audio planars revealed I saw the ad before I saw this thread. I regarded the claims I saw there just as skeptically as many of you above, and found the tired old 'hot chick model' ploy to be particularly tacky - even borderline insulting - attached to a product in this ... | |
| Review: Classe Audio 70 Amplifier FWIW, I believe that the older and generally well-regarded "DR" line from Classe, as well as many of the products they've introduced in more recent years such as the Omega line and its trickle-down descendents, were not primarily designed by the s... | |
| New $500 "best" phono stage? If you look up Audiogon username "Grooves", you can email Michael directly and ask him yourself. He has liked many sub-$1K phonostages in his ongoing survey, but he usually qualifies budget raves by lavishing his praise on certain sonic areas, whi... | |
| Review: Classe Audio 70 Amplifier Ferrari, I once owned this amp too, and at the time, it was the best amp I'd had thus far. That was early in my audiophile journey however, and I was able to surpass its performance pretty quickly when I moved to a Conrad-Johnson MV-55 tubed amp. ... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Corona: I'm not sure exactly what you intend to imply by that 'question' (Maybe that nothing you could say would be good enough for me? Not true! - though you're correct if you assume I would still likely take exception with your underlying assert... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Nrchy: I agree with your statements about measureability not being the end-all in audio. I do believe that any difference which can be heard *could* be measured, if only an adequate test existed, and also the corollary that although measurement mi... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Clueless: I bow down before your boffo-ness, and will henceforth only connect my soup cans with CryoThermionically-treated tiny jock straps. :-)Nrchy: This is a minor, tangential point, but I have a compulsion to chasten any time I hear someone se... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Corona: FWIW, I am not, among other things (like being an engineer or scientifically trained), a 'measurements uber-alles' type who doesn't like to rely on his ears (not that I feel ears can't be fooled!). It would be a false sylogism to suggest t... | |
| Power Cords Snake Oil ?? Corona: I think people basically *are* saying theoretical physics has nothing to do with great sound.Give me a jingle the next time a Nobel Prize winner decides to go into the audiophile cable business... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Rx8man, I'm just grooving on how long it takes my poor old 'puter and dinky dial-up connection to load this page...this is what audio-chat has reduced me to for entertainment... :-) I'd be sort of interested to know what it is about this particula... |