bondmanp
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| Cocktail Audio N15 - A Contender? @skiroe - This is a little OT (the post really focuses on streamers, not servers), but I would look at either the Melco server (you will need to add a streamer), ~$2000, or Bluesound Vault II (everything you need in one box), ~$1200. | |
| Looking for a warm sweet speaker Warmest line of speakers I have heard are the Opera line from Italy. Also, the Silverline speakers are pretty sweet sounding. I hate in-your-face etched sounding speakers as well. In general, you might wish to avoid metal dome tweeters, and instea... | |
| Audio as a weapon I sometimes use audio as weapon myself. I find that when my wife invades my man cave and starts to ramble on about something completely uninteresting and unimportant, I return fire by gradually goosing the volume on my remote until she gives up a... | |
| Ownership and Review of a pair of Ohm Super Sound Cylinder @craigsub - I don't do dope, or drop anything when listening. Doing, perhaps? Checking email, usually. But I try to set aside a few hours here and there for listening as a destination activity. | |
| Ownership and Review of a pair of Ohm Super Sound Cylinder Don't get me started! Listening to a good female vocal + acoustic instrument recording on my 2000s can be an almost religious experience. Suzanne Vega, Ani Difranco, Neko Case, Norah Jones, et. al., just make you stop whatever you're doping and ... | |
| Ownership and Review of a pair of Ohm Super Sound Cylinder @craigsub - Thanks for the update. To us Ohm owners, your experience is not at all surprising. I also run my Ohms with powered subwoofers, and I am thrilled with this combo. Obviously, care should be taken to position and blend the sub(s) optim... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? @blin116 - I defer to mapman on the efficiency issue. The way I see it is this: The Ohm Walsh speakers represent such a good value, that if you find you must upgrade elsewhere, such as your amp, it is well worth it, as these speakers will let yo... | |
| Music Server Recommendation FYI, the Melco is only around $2000. There is a very knowledgeable Melco dealer in Edison, NJ - Care Audio. The Melco also got a pretty good review in one of the big rags (Stereophile or TAS).I would give serious consideration to the Melco. I h... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? @blin116 - My room was on the cusp of requiring the 3000s, but the room volume for the 2000s overlaps with the room volume for the 3000s. I went with the 2000s, primarily for the cost savings. As you can read in this thread, this was nine years ag... | |
| Surprised @d2girls - Three reasons: Money, money, and money. | |
| Preamp Suggestions for hot-rodded Odyssey Khartago? @gochurchgo - I would think the Candela would work. Just be aware that it has no balance control. Part of enjoying poorer quality recordings, many of which have soundstages that skew to one side or the other (even varying within the same album!)... | |
| Need help with Subwoofer upgrade There are ported subs that don't sound boomy. Like everything else in this hobby, it's all about good design. Lots of factors matter here - cabinet size, amplifier power, driver size, magnet structure, excursion, etc., etc. In your price range,... | |
| Preamp Suggestions for hot-rodded Odyssey Khartago? @gochurchgo - I do listen to Jazz, and classical, and thrash metal, and punk and lots of 80s rock...etc. I would not have been happy if the C-J was incapable of doing rock well. I think the C-J preamps that were older, like the PV-5, had the sof... | |
| Surprised @wspohn - Well, sure, you basically turned the 4's into a full-range tower with powered woofers. That works as well, even though the argument can be made that being able to position the subs and the mains independently has some advantages. To go... | |
| Preamp Suggestions for hot-rodded Odyssey Khartago? I have had an Odyssey Stratos HT3 since 2006. It was first used with a HT pre-pro, then a Conrad Johnson PV-11. If you can abide the limited feature-set of the C-J, used units, when they come up, are in your price range. Great MM phono section,... |