garfish
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| Follow up to 10 x 10 room speaker dilemma.... Hi Esox; Well, amps certainly do come in all sorts of "flavors" and I'm glad to hear you found one that really improved your system. But as to component flavor, that's true of just about anything in audio-- including all sorts of wires and even ou... | |
| How grills affect? Yep, I agree with Sugar-- tried the V5 w/o grills last night and noticed some excess brightness in especially low treble. The 5s looked better "dressed" too;>) Cheers. Craig | |
| McCormack DNA-1 biamping? I agree with Sean. I passive bi-amped a pair of McCormack DNA-2 Rev. A(s) with Vand. 3A sig speakers and really didn't get much in the way of beneficial results at all. For bi-amping I think active is the way to go-- assuming your speakers will wo... | |
| What Ever Happened to ST Optical? Like format wars, I think RCA and XLR have won the connector wars, while some other good ones have languished. | |
| Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits I really like M. Knoppfler's "Golden Heart", and glad to see the Subdudes and JJ Cale mentioned. I've been really impressed with XRCDs lately-- thanks for the reminder re Dire Straits. I think I have everything JJ has done and his latest "Live" al... | |
| Looking for advice on 2 Channel system I have Vandersteen 5s with built in subs in a 14 X 22 listening room and they're great-- incredible bass articulation and power. They occasionally show up here on A'Gon in the $7-8K range. Along with a good tubed pre-amp, you could have a dyno-sup... | |
| What group do you wish would be remastered? I'd like to see (hear) the Fabulous Thunderbirds many CDs combined and re-mastered using the JVC 20Bit K2 process.BTW, Ramstl, you finally won me over and I recently acquired a Marantz Professional CDR500 CD Recorder-- really like that machine. My... | |
| How grills affect? This has been an interesting thread, and I seem to have been brainwashed by the Vandersteen position re grillcloths. Of course on the Vand. 2C/3A speakers, the grills can't be removed anyway. But I now have the V5s and tonight I'll take the "hoods... | |
| How to Match Levels? Is it possible to unplug the wire(s) at the headphones?-- as it is w/ Senn. 580/600s? If so, you might try doing that. If not, find some other way to mute the channels individually. Of course placing the SPL meter will be critical for determining ... | |
| Sonic Frontiers Dying? I think Natalie's post above is right. I just got my Line 2 pre-amp back from SF for up-grade to SE level, and it's my understanding too that SF is (at least temporarily) shifting its focus to HT products and is presently not manufacturing tube ge... | |
| Recommended CD of " Smooth Jazz " I don't know if they're specifically "smooth jazz" artists or not, but they sure sound SMOOTH to me: Jacintha "Autumn Leaves" on XRCD2-- the BEST CD I'VE EVER HEARD; Diana Krall "The Look of Love"; Shirley Horn "Ultimate", and Holly Cole "Temptati... | |
| How grills affect? Speakers are designed for use with grill cloths on. The Vandersteen owners manual specifically states this and that the grill cloths should not be removed. They refer to the cloth as "sonically transparent". Presumably all/most speakers are so des... | |
| Leaving CD in Transport? CDs are incredibly tough. Have you ever tried to break one of those puppies with your bare hands? As long as the laser is not on, the CD should be very happy in the transport. Cheers. Craig | |
| TO DAC OR NOT TO DAC? A good transport + good DAC is likely more expensive than a good single box player, and you need an extra cable. But the 2 box system is more flexible, ie as new and better DACs come out you just need a new DAC rather than both. I use a ML 37 tran... | |
| What is the best DB level to Hi Jw; when watching movies (and listening) I set the volume so that spoken dialogue sounds natural-- let "special effects" and music SPLS "fall where they may". And with music I adjust the volume so that the music just sounds live/natural. Anothe... |