eldartford
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| Redbook CD /DVD video/DVD-A sound quality Theoretically the new media are sonicly superior, but the difference is less than what can occur simply because of better recording and mixing. In other words there are well made CD that sound better than poorly made SACD.I am a big SACD and DVDA ... | |
| "tube watts" versus "solid state watts" Arahl...Some SS amps have circuitry which detects when clipping is imminent, and limit gain so as to behave very much like a tube amp when overdriven. Also, consider that SS amps are, for any price point, much more powerful than tube amps, so that... | |
| Can Sound-Smith tip sound as good as original? I got so annoyed with the problem of stylus replacement on MC cartridges that I went back to the good old reliable Shure V15. It was always..."we can't fix your cartridge but we will give you a discount on the new model, which happens to cost a lo... | |
| A/B Vinyl/Digital 80% of the "soul" of the music is in the performance. 15% is in the recording and mixing, which may differ for vinyl and digital releases. Of the remaining 5%, the mood of the listener is predominant. The medium, vinyl or digital disc, plays a sma... | |
| "tube watts" versus "solid state watts" Actually...a watt is current times voltage. It is unlikely that an amplifier will "run out" of voltage capability at the same time that it runs out of current capability. You could have an amplifier with low "rail" voltages that could deliver huge... | |
| 2 Channel Sub Woofer, 1 or 2 Sub-woofers? If you were designing a (cost-no-object)speaker system having response to 20 Hz or so, would you choose to put one of the drivers in a separate enclosure located several feet away from the rest of the system? I think not. IMHO, each main speaker s... | |
| other then bose what amp could drive Johnnyb53...With automatic room equalization readily available (Behringer DEQ2496 for example) there is no such thing as a "secret" equalization curve. As I have described in another posting I have Bose 901 speakers in my HUGE swimming pool room, ... | |
| Neighbor Complaining... Buy a house or take up another hobby. | |
| Sibilance in recordings: your experience the same? Sibilance is usually in the recording and is a characteristic of microphones, some worse than others. | |
| Directional fuse and integrated IEC outlet Suggestion...try it both ways and pick the one that you like. This will give you satisfaction, regardless of whether there is any effect or not. | |
| dynaco st120 amps The ST120 has a cult following. It is a unique circuit, best described as a preamp on steroids...output through a huge capacitor. It was, in some regards, superior to the later ST150 which was a conventional circuit configuration. I had one for ye... | |
| Anybody heard of Girard turntables? Garrard came up with an interesting concept for a click-and-pop eliminator. The device never got into mass production. The idea was to do the processing on the raw signal from the cartridge, before the RIAA equalization that rolls off highs (makin... | |
| Anybody heard of Girard turntables? Response34...Of course, yours is a changer...not a single-play TT. The TT I had as my first system looked very similar, but without the nice wood base. One had to furnish your own base. Many times the TT was mounted in a console, and you just had ... | |
| Tired of Problems with Tube Equipment Tvad...What do you do with all those old toilets? They might make a dandy enclosure for a horn-loaded speaker system :-) Sort of a Bose wave configuration. | |
| Sound canceling headphones reduce SPL? Noise canceling headphones were developed for aircraft pilots who need to hear ATC clearly in a noisy aircraft environment. They will never be audiophile-approved. Why? Because the best ones (by far) are made by Bose! |