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| Parsifals vs Mahlers - best for what I got? The Ovations retail for about 2.5 times the Mahlers with the same finish. For that kind of price differential, it'd be worth taking a trip to a large city where you could hear both. Denver would be such a city with non-stop air service from many c... | |
| An Audiophile Goal Acoustat6 said:"I do believe that all LPs can/should be played back at the same level, if you like the sound of the LP is another question entirely or if your system is capable of the dynamics."I guess that I should have asked this earlier (I've r... | |
| An Audiophile Goal Acoustat6 said:".... As a now confirmed audiophile, now that I have a realistic and perhaps more importantly a measurable goal, I could start figuring out which albums sound good and which do not. It was easy, every LP is played back at the same g... | |
| An Audiophile Goal If "there is only one correct volume level for any particular piece of music" is true (I agree that there is a range, but would disagree that there's one exact level, but let's forget that for now), then how can referencing your playback system to... | |
| speaker/room bass modes I agree with everything said so far; however, I'd like to add that interaction with the wall behind the speakers is hypercritical, particularly if the speakers have rear-firing ports. You can excite a node and then attenuate it by moving a speaker... | |
| All about the bass Within your $5K budget, I'd recommend the Vienna Acoustics Beethoven Baby Grands with a REL sub woofer. You only mentioned tight/powerful/fast. If you go with the setup I'm suggesting, you'll get that plus you'll hear the true character of the bas... | |
| Good turntables w/o record clamps 12-17-07: Lewm said:"The clamp is kind of a "tweak". As with all tweaks, there will be some who swear by it and some who hate it or are indifferent to its use. So, in the end with any table, it will be a matter of your own opinion based on your ow... | |
| Harshness in Midrange??? Any Help It's not the cables, it's the placement of the speakers within the room. Get that right before messing around with cables and components. See:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/frr.pl?rspkr&1197744079&read&3&4& | |
| Parsifals vs Mahlers - best for what I got? You'll need all of that 3' for the Mahlers, but it'll work, IMHO, give or take an inch or two. If you like the Mahlers, then the Strauss will look as good and allow you a little closer to the wall. Either will make Wasserman sound like he's in you... | |
| Feds to audiophiles: You're all pirates now mp3 and audiophile don't belong in the same sentence, do they? | |
| Considering going Vinyl--Please talk me out of it Elinor, you're suggesting a $10,000 CD/Disc player vs. a $3000 vinyl front-end to get comparable quality levels. I don't think that's very close. There are several intergrated TT/arm/cartridge possibilities that compete with the excellent EMM play... | |
| Cash burning a hole What to upgrade? Sumiko speaker set:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?rspkr&1197744079&read&3&zzlDcstep&& | |
| Is it best to leave gear on or to shut it off? I don't think it's a question of vintage vs. modern, but solid state vs. tube.I kept my Bryston amp and pre-amp on almost 25-years and it sounded great all the time. I wouldn't do that with tube equipment, since there's more likelyhood of a tube f... | |
| Review: Sumiko Speaker Set Speaker Yes, that's a very good question about stability.I don't think that an amp change is a worry, but moving the speakers,even a little, is a concern. Moving the armoire would be a potential issue, but the other furniture is out of the sound path. I'm... | |
| Review: Sumiko Speaker Set Speaker Thanks for joining in. Sumiko has been doing this long enough that there's got to be more people on Audiogone that have experienced it.I first experienced it in Soundings' own shop. I listened to the Beethoven Grands and thought that they sounded ... |