gunbei
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| Opinions on Wireworld and Acoustic Zen digital The Acoustic Zen MC2 has been my current favorite for a few years, the other one I own and like is the Virtual Dynamics Nite. I also owned Kimber Illuminations D60, Cardas Lightning L15, and others from Mapleshade and Stereovox.I did a direct comp... | |
| Are there any budget tubed preamps that stand out For $700, a first generation Blue Circle BC21 which uses 6SN7 tubes has a beautiful and distinctive midrange tone, and creates an expansive, dynamic soundfield. | |
| XM or Sirius I love Wikipedia. I often go there intent on doing a specific search and end up spending hours getting sidetracked and branching off into completely unrelated topics. A great place to get a primer on something before investigating it further. | |
| do blind tests have any practical significance "Arise and SMITE."I like that word. Heheh. | |
| do blind tests have any practical significance I don't even like doing this with popular soft drinks. | |
| Proac 2 - stand options Sympaticonorm,Just a guess, but I'd think the Response 2 is somewhere in between the 1SC and 2.5 when it comes to overall balance. Dean | |
| XM or Sirius Baffled, I'm running my Sirius directly into my pre/pro so I'm not using an FM modulator. However, it is interesting that the tin can effect I'm hearing is most pronounced through headphones and usually not audible through loudspeakers. And good p... | |
| Opinions on digital interconnect I've owned the D60 and Stereovox as well. They're both definitely very smooth, neutral cables.For my taste, I chose the Acoustic Zen MC² because it had slightly more organic presentation. Whether this is something you'd want to add to your existin... | |
| Proac 2 - stand options Nice speakers!I currently own Response 2.5s and Tablette 50 Signatures and used to own 1SCs. I really never understood why ProAc discontinued the 2s.I believe another stand people liked were Osiris, but I think they've gone out of business. You mi... | |
| Blue Circle BC3 vs BC21.1 Do both units have the stock tubes? That would make for a more objective test. Do you own the BC22 mkI or mkII? It never occured to me that the BC21.1 and BC3 Despina might have different output impedances, but your experience indicates that might... | |
| Opinions on digital interconnect One that comes to mind is the Acoustic Zen MC². It sounds very open, smooth, and creates a nice sense of scale, all for around $180 or less used for an RCA terminated one meter digital cable. | |
| Proac 2 - stand options How tall are your 2s, about 18 inches? If so, an 18-22" stand might work like those from Sound Anchors. | |
| can i transport apple lossless between pc & mac? I was thinking the same thing Kennyt suggested. That is, if you're going to run an iTunes based system try networking the computers. We do this at work with an old iMac as the music server with 500gigs of storage. That way PCs and Macs can play th... | |
| speakers efficiency If you're shopping for speakers and are concerned with efficiency, you should also consider the impedance curve of the speaker. A speaker with a flatter curve will be easier on an amp than one with more violent imepdance spikes and thus play loude... | |
| XM or Sirius I bought Sirius at the end of last year before Howard Stern jumped to satellite. From personal experience and what I've read I agree with what Mikelavigne has said. The sound quality is poor and the signal is finicky. I hear equal complaints from ... |