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| Anybody listen to Ohm Walsh speaker w/digital amp? Marty,Take consolation in the fact that many of us on this sight share in your mindset and I personally would love to be able to play with all those nice toys!In defense of your sanity though, better to try lots of different things at reasonable p... | |
| Anybody listen to Ohm Walsh speaker w/digital amp? Martykl,You have some nice stuff to experiment with.How many different amps + stuff do you own?I agree with the "Quads with more bass" analogy for the newer OHM Walshes. "Quads with more meat on the bones for less" is specifically what I was shoot... | |
| Anybody listen to Ohm Walsh speaker w/digital amp? MBL lovers (Pedrillo, this means you!) take note!Marty, thanks for sharing your findings."There are tracks on Lindsey Buckingham's "Under The Skin" on which this combo "lights up" the front of the room in a way I've never before experienced in my ... | |
| Steve Winwood Nine Lives lp I'm going to see him live next week at the Myerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore.Has anyone caught him live yet on his current tour?I haven't been this pumped for a concert in a while. A legendary artist with a huge body of essential work and a fine... | |
| Anybody listen to Ohm Walsh speaker w/digital amp? Marty,Are you saying you preferred the 100s with Bel Canto Class D to 100s with tube amp, but not to 100s + tube amp + sub?That sounds reasonable to me. ANy findings though with 100s with Bel CAnto Class D versus other non tube/SS amps? Have you h... | |
| Anybody listen to Ohm Walsh speaker w/digital amp? Not yet. I think the combo of small size and high efficiency and current constitute a match made in heaven with the OHMs though.My next amp someday will likely be a Class D, possibly mono-blocks. I figure the longer I wait, the better and more ref... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? The 100s do go loud and clean. Your amp would work fine and sound great I am certain. | |
| Understanding Jitter in PC Audio Steve N.,That makes sense. Thanks so much for the detailed explanation. | |
| Understanding Jitter in PC Audio Audioengr,Can you explain to me how re-clocking is done in an accurate manner? I understand the concept of "garbage-in, garbage-out" in most information systems meaning that once information is lost or corrupted, it cannot in general be restored b... | |
| Has anyone heard Musical Fidelity's V-DAC? There is another active thread started on this same topic recently.http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1227206709&read&keyw&zzv+dac | |
| Geffen Records lp's "Double Fantasy" by John Lennon on Geffen is not bad as I recall.On the other extreme the first "Asia" album from Geffen about a year or two later is a huge letdown as you describe.I don't know if any more meaning can be inferred other than some w... | |
| Konfounding Kinks Kronikles is on CD. Its a very good collection of vintage Kinks material and the sound quality is quite good also. | |
| Internet radio stations that sound really good "One difficulty is that smaller Internet radio stations are too often short-lived, streaming happily along one day and gone the next."Often true and often not."Their stream URLs change at times, too, which makes maintaining a bookmark list (Winamp... | |
| Supporting Local Audio Stores are we? Its always possible that larger or more adventuresome ecommerce audio companies that market solely and sell directly via internet might step in and open a new breed of B&M shops in larger markets that enables buyers to stop in and actually aud... | |
| Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps Another I've heard recently is jazz singer Sophie Millman.And Ritchie Blackmore's (of Deep Purple fame wife (name?) who does vocals in his group "Blackmore's Night". |