meerzistar
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| Materials to reduce sidewall flex & vibration ? donjr, that's correct; and I would say at least 95% of cabinet sidewalls flex.Cabinet flex was/is more of a concern with old monkey coffins. Its pretty much non existent in todays narrower speakers with more emphasis placed on cabinet designs, t... | |
| Esoteric F-05 Integrated - any opinions? The power supplies in the F-05 are substantial and efficient, doubling the size of most separate power amps with similar output ratings. Unless you plan on propelling a bus around the city with it I suspect lack of dynamics shouldn’t be much of a ... | |
| Need a new preamp - child destroyed Proceed AVP Good deals starting to pop up on hi caliber prepro’s with HDMI if you can live without later decoding. Or AVRs if they have the right number of channel pre outs for your amps. I would seek a prepro the 2ch preamps are much much better in some of t... | |
| Looking for SACD player............ During the last decade or so I owned many of the usual suspects, some a couple times over, but havent had another SONY. Not for any bad experience. Marantz and Oppo are nice, and handful of Pioneers. Anyone care to trade their SCD-XA5400ES for a 1... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters Cone material sometimes makes subtle it can make subtle yet very very sweet difference gold ears arent required to hear sweet natural timbre of percussion. I think vocals sound most realistic on speakers with paper cones also, that I have heard. a... | |
| Best Cheap Amps for Magneplanar Speakers Not cheap not the cost of a house either Bryston makes some very good sounding reliable cost effective mono blocks to power just about every mag. The power packs also sound very good look into them. They should easily hide in the back somewhere if... | |
| What are the smallest speakers that are clean and flat down to 20hz? I was impressed with folded horns think I will be getting familiar with some of my own. I was exposed to some low bass I could feel more than I could hear at times, like an invisible donkey kicking you in the chest. Up in the more practical musica... | |
| Need Help with Subwoofer Choice Rel rythmik m&k MJ acoustics JL, the same makes always come up, all of those make great sounding musical subs. Im going beyond a usual sub and constructing two 8" folded horn with hypex modules, I will more often then not go for sealed subs, w... | |
| Anthem 225 integrated: Anyone knows anything ? The Anthem stuff being made locally as well other good makes they have always been reachable retail and used. More people seem to prefer hanging on to them because I only see a small handful go up since those started being made. The 225 I had woul... | |
| You were right about adding a sub. That or at least split the signal in half at the outputs. Going through the sub to your main amplifier is unnecessary and often unfavorable. That way your straying from a truer signal coming downstream. You can avoid that simply by using neutral R... | |
| Any comments on DAC going direct to power amplifier or to pre-ampliifer? DACs can absolutely add brightness/ listener fatigue, just like other components can. If they all did what the name implies that would make it too easy ;) | |
| Any comments on DAC going direct to power amplifier or to pre-ampliifer? "There is no answer to the original question. Answer will depend on specific components being used and what sound the listener prefers." Agreed ^. "The dac should have an analog volume control because digital volume controls do lose bits as you tu... | |
| Cardas RCA Silver connectors Plus, I find Furutech expensive without quality add. Very pretty though. Best,Erik I do like their hex screw rhodium spades. I wasn't convinced they enhanced or hindered sound. They look pretty too. Dressing up the rear side of my 3As was my ma... | |
| Cabinet It insulates current, not vibration. Thats pretty clear cut. Personally I think its the wrong type of environment to be housing audio components. Refinish it and put your beer in it $0.02 | |
| Aragon, Parasound or Bryston "should also note the Brystons have a 20 year fully trasferable warranty and a very good rep for repair services. get a 10 year old sst/sst2 and still have 10 years left of warranty. as I have not heard any of them I can’t judge by sound but quali... |