learsfool
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| Help choosing Classical Music LPs I would also recommend listening to alot of different things on the radio and figuring out what you like. You will hear many different composers and style periods and start to figure out what you like. Then you can ask for more specific recommenda... | |
| Why does better power = better sound? Hi Bryon - your comments here on expertise reminds me of the final film of Orson Welles, F is for Fake. If you haven't seen it, you need to. I think you would really enjoy it, and it is very much on your topic. | |
| What is your listening level? Yes, Blueranger, if you listen at 110dB without some kind of hearing protection, you will suffer some damage in just over 2 minutes of continuous exposure, on average!! I have posted a report on this in a recent thread, if you care to look it up. ... | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? Hi Atmasphere - yes, I am of course familiar with 3/4 and 1/2 size instruments in the string world, I had just never heard the term "scale" applied to them, being purely a classical orchestral horn player. I would also like to take this opportunit... | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? Hi Kijanki - thanks for the link. I am going to have to ask one of my viola colleagues about this tomorrow! As far as I knew, the string lengths of all the instruments in the orchestra string family were approximately the same length (with the obv... | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? Hi Kijanki - yes I realize this is semantics; I do now understand what you were talking about - however, your use of terms is very bizarre to an orchestral musician. Orchestral string players do not speak of the length of their strings as "scales"... | |
| Why do audiophiles shun feedback in amplifiers? If I may chime in here on the "tight" bass issue. Atmasphere's description of the string bass is a good one - no orchestral bassist would want to be told that he sounds "tight." I am sorry to say that Kijanki's post in response makes almost no sen... | |
| Which Primaluna amp ? The autobias feature is very nice indeed. I will say I prefer my Dialogue 2 with EL 34s instead of KT88s. | |
| Which Primaluna amp ? I have heard the PrimaLuna amps with ProAc speakers, and it is a nice combo. You list some of their newer models here though, which I am not familiar with. I have a Dialogue 2 integrated and like it very much. I have heard it and a few of the olde... | |
| Three recent, key learnings Hi Stuart - I have to say I would generally agree with every one of those three premises, especially the second one. I would, however, also generally agree with Newbee's first post as well. | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Bryon, I obviously misread your post, then, sorry! | |
| Primaluna Dialog Two Integrated Amp vs Cayin A-88T Hi Catama, yes, the Dialogue has a remote. I just assumed all of the PrimaLuna products did! | |
| What Does Holographic Sound Like? Hi Bryon and Sabai - I will now chime in on your discussion here. By and large, if I am understanding both of your positions here, I agree with Sabai. Bryon, when you are talking about your concept of "reactive" listening rooms, you seem to be imp... | |
| Primaluna Dialog Two Integrated Amp vs Cayin A-88T The Dialogue also has the switch from triode to ultralinear on the fly - I thought the Prologue did too, but I guess not from what you say, Catama. | |
| Importance of Soundstage/Imaging I would agree with what Onhwy61 says about the old horn speakers he mentions in particular. Timbre and dynamics are of extreme importance to musicians when they evaluate what a speaker sounds like, with our reference being what live acoustically p... |