mapman
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| Capital Audio Fest 2016 Yes Audio Note room always seems to be one of my favorites as well. No difference this time around.I plan to do some experimentation with corner placement of speakers in a few rooms of my house.Classic Audio/Atmasphere was probably the best sho... | |
| Capital Audio Fest 2016 One of the rooms I enjoyed most with gear I could see myself owning someday was the Vac/Gershman room. The Gershman monitors playing were perhaps my favorite new find at CAF this year. The room running Rogue hybrid amp and Joseph Audio compact f... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Muse The Resistance. Audiophiles that love good pop/rock music, classical music, the bombast of Queen and good sound will love this one. | |
| Capital Audio Fest 2016 Saletric There were few if any CDs being played on CD players. Mostly vinyl and digital streaming. I suspect that and strides in Dac technology in recent years helped achieve better more consistent sound throughout the show. I know it has for ... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? http://www.cnet.com/news/forty-years-ago-the-ohm-f-speaker-was-a-game-changer-it-still-is/ The modern day descendants of these continue to improve regularly as well. Definite game changers for me. | |
| Jeff Rowlands Amp and Dac vs. VAC amp and DAC Seems like the dealer knows the Devaliet is in fact worth more than the wires. It sounds like a bad deal. | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? Walsh drivers were conceived and realized in the 1960s. | |
| Jeff Rowlands Amp and Dac vs. VAC amp and DAC Yes wires worth that amount should trounce anything from Mogami. No way to know unless you try. You could end up better financially by spending less on wires and investing that money elsewhere in your system down the road if needed. Its pr... | |
| Capital Audio Fest 2016 These are the rooms I heard with sound I would like to hear more of. Kefclassic audio/Atmasphere martin logancare audiodaedelusOdysseyrogue/Joseph audio/now listen herebenchmarkvac/gershmanberning/voxitive custom hornsStar soundAudio note | |
| Capital Audio Fest 2016 Welch my guess is that most of the rooms were not large and most people look for smaller more compact speakers anyway. So that somewhat means speakers might not be as large or expensive as they can be. Whereas there is no practical limit to wha... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? I assume we're talking about home audio speakers. Sound overall all at large outdoor concert venues has increased greatly. So better things seem possible at the largest scale. Most home home listening rooms aren't any larger today than years... | |
| Loudspeakers have we really made that much progress since the 1930s? More sound out of smaller boxes. But only with more power. Also many new transducer technologies and innovations since then. Probably also way more really good ones to choose from with unique strengths and weaknesses. Are they better? Not su... | |
| Jeff Rowlands Amp and Dac vs. VAC amp and DAC If its a standard balanced IC that is needed in particular, where sound differences among wires should be minimal if any, I would forego all the high end audio brands and look at pro audio vendors for a good quality wire for reasonable cost and ca... | |
| Retract offer Good to know. | |
| Jeff Rowlands Amp and Dac vs. VAC amp and DAC Wires are often a potshot even for the best informed.My advice is buy in a manner that enables you to experiment without taking a loss each time you might want to change. There are some vendors who offer generous return and exchange programs I ... |