mapman
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| Jazz for aficionados So I wonder what new is going on in Jazz these days? Its always been an evolving form. World music influences, particularly Latin American seems to be more common these days. I am not up to speed and do wonder. jazz as a pure art form of its own s... | |
| Best loudspeaker with coincident/coaxial driver The only thing alone that has a good chance of assuring anything is a large number of very happy users. | |
| Free $3K preamp to lucky listener who names it My email changed so I entered again. | |
| With $20,000 in your hand, what speaker would you Ok. With only $20K that leaves me with a pair of tin cans for the speakers then.Oh well......maybe I'll just stick with headphones. | |
| Auralex ISO-Tone Turntable Isolation Platform The sound of the system playing produces the vibrations that you are isolating against. There might be other sources of vibrations as well but typically that is the big one.There, that was not so hard was it? :^) | |
| High power vs bi amp low power? I have not heard but on a budget for a good Quality higher pwoer Class D amp I would be inclined to try D-sonic or Class D audio or Wyred. Currently I been running Bel Canto ref1000m amps for several years and still could not be happier. They brin... | |
| With $20,000 in your hand, what speaker would you Most likely, the only way I think I might ever really need speakers costing that much is if I am looking for something full range to run them off a flea powered SET amp or something along that line. Or if my room were really really big, like an au... | |
| The missing piece "t is my belief and experience that most systems do not perform anywhere near potential because they have not been tweaked out properly."That may be true. BEfore tweaking though comes the choice of components to use together. Tweaking may help but... | |
| The missing piece Well I've been running various ohm speakers now since 1978 and ohm Walsh speakers since 1982 or so and don't foresee them going anywhere. Most other very good stuff I use is probably replaceable one way or another. The ohms are most unique. Nothin... | |
| Overshadowed by bandmates I've been admiring George Harrison's bass playing on "old brown shoe" of late. 🎸. In an interview he once said that was him going nuts on bass basically playing it like his guitar. Very cool. | |
| With $20,000 in your hand, what speaker would you If the ops still out there my recommendation above from 2010 has not changed. Boring...... 😉 | |
| New Tekton Pendragons On The Way Tim,Worth a try if you already have something. Can't hurt. My gut says that unless your floor is rock solid to start with, isolating the Tektons, which seem to use a good quality larger bass driver in a modest build cabinet at their price point, a... | |
| New Tekton Pendragons On The Way Call me crazy, but these days I tend to believe that with the right setup, a lot of way more modest speakers can sound like mbl or Magico. If done well. I'm finding isolating speakers from interacting with floor is a must, however one gets to that... | |
| New Tekton Pendragons On The Way I am a 3-D sound fanatic as well. But it's the SOTA mbl demo I heard a few years ago in a very well done custom showroom that drives me there. That and what I hear at live performances. I will never have any rooms like those to work with most like... | |
| How good REALLY is the Peachtree Grand Integrated? Anyone compared PEachtree Grand and Rogue Pharoah?I've heard the Pharoah and liked it a lot. I acquired a Bel Canto C5i recently for a very good price. I was considering Rogue Sphinx also and heard both Sphinx and Pharoah. I would consider Pharoah... |