eldartford
Responses from eldartford
| Telarc recording quality Some recent Telarc releases have been a disapointment. | |
| Best Digital Amps Marakanetz...My experience suggests that digital equipment tends to be much more reliable than analog. The Carver executes an automatic self-test every time it turns on, and has various other self-protection features. On top of this, the Warantee ... | |
| Best Digital Amps Does "best" take price into account?Can anyone provide a list of "steet" prices for the units in question. I paid $840 for my Carver 1600s. | |
| SACD my thoughts at this time..................... Metralla...Not finalized, but inevitable. I hear that disc thickness in a few existing players is the only hang up. | |
| SACD my thoughts at this time..................... Ears...If you insist on only two channels, DVD-A gives you that via a mixdown. Remember that the "stereo" CD is also a mixdown from a dozen or more channels. Audiowise, such a 2-channel DVD-A signal is exactly like a CD except that there are 24 bi... | |
| Carver Pro ZR1600 I was wishing for the Spectron amp, but the price tag for 6 channels is a bit steep. Three stereo Carvers cost about 1/3 of the cost of the 6-channel Spectron, and having the amps in three units is more convenient for me.The Carver and the Bel Can... | |
| SACD my thoughts at this time..................... Ears... I guess we buy different DVD discs. Most of mine are "audiophile" labels from Europe purchased via internet, and they have small cases (and large price tags). Apart from the larger size, which may mean new storage facilities, don't you agr... | |
| SACD my thoughts at this time..................... Ears...Two minor factual corrections. 1. Most DVD-A (the ones I buy anyway) come in cases that are the same size as CD's. The larger ones that a few discs came in were really much better, but the manufacturers must have heard a lot of complaints a... | |
| Inactive speakers...some measurements Sean...You are correct that the classical mathematical analysis of loudspeaker designs is ridiculously complex. I prefer to copy designs that I like, and then tweek things a little at a time. Not too appropriate for an engineer like me, but this i... | |
| Carver Pro ZR1600 sean...I think I will stick with 600X6 for a while (for the fronts). I also have biamped rears (misc amps) to annoy the neighbors.I find curious the way that speakers, Maggies in particular, respond to very high powered amps. I know that the actua... | |
| SACD my thoughts at this time..................... Restating my opinion...the bigest problem with SACD is the existance of DVD-A. With a well-made disc and a good player SACD is better than a CD. But the same can be said for DVD-A, which shares technology with the mass market for DVD-V, and repres... | |
| Carver Pro ZR1600 With arrival of the third ZR 1600 I now have the "final" setup with each ZR 1600 driving a MG1.6 with one channel, and a subwoofer system with the other.It's true that Maggies just get better and better as you increase the power amp, and they ain'... | |
| Inactive speakers...some measurements sean...There probably are enough different ways to configure a speaker system so that every one of us guys on Audiogon (plus Elizabeth) can have their own way to argue is best! Vance Dickason in his "Loudspeaker Design Cookbook" talks about "Augme... | |
| Inactive speakers...some measurements sean...It isn't easy to figure out what to make of the data, so what I did was to determine what kind of power level we are talking about. I assumed that this power was all radiated (or absorbed if you like). And my conclusion is that inphase or o... | |
| SACD 2 channel vs Redbook 2 Channel My experience, and from what I read from others, is that even the cheapest DVD-A player sounds a lot better than CD, but to get good results from SACD requires a relatively expensive player. So the answer is: yes...SACD is superior to CD but only ... |