martykl
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| Live vs. recorded I'm with Shadorne - maybe because our musical taste overlaps a fair bit. My favorite rock/pop/funk musicians are types that meticulously craft their songs, but manage to add that rock n' roll edge that suggests that it might all fall apart at any ... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2010 From the "Good Things Come In 3s" Dep't:For those who liked the 60s blues rock feel of Tom Petty's latest and Los Lobos "Tin Can Trust", here comes....Ronnie Wood "I Feel Like Playing". It sounds like he does feel like playing, too, as the second ... | |
| What speaker for being close to rear wall? Vienna Schoenberg series is designed for on-wall or near wall use. Not great, but not half bad. | |
| does a subwoofer kill stereo sound? String,I got a chance to listen to "Mississippi" again. I believe that you're right re: Day Dream, but my post was actually refering to something different, like the series of drum beats that begins less than a minute into St. James Infirmary. I b... | |
| PrimaLuna ProLogue Two - mixing tubes? The PL amps are designed to safely accomodate this. However, Kevin at Upscale can probably give you the upside/downside of operating the amp in this fashion. I think that I've used every outpube tube out there in my PL 7s and there's a fair bit of... | |
| Magnepan owners : past / present Ohm. Yet another "omni after dipole" guy.MartyI agree that the SMG/MMG line represents idiotically good value. Pair them with a couple of quality, properly set-up subs and you can get a $2.5K full range system that won't embarass itself against an... | |
| does a subwoofer kill stereo sound? String,I'm not sure that we're taliking about the same thing - but we might be. I'll go back and listen again, but I'm not necessarily talking about the lowest frequencies on the recording - rather a percussive sound (maybe +/- 50hz fundamental as... | |
| does a subwoofer kill stereo sound? Re: expanding soundstage.I've heard the same effect, but not consistently. Most recently it's become quite apparent on Allen Toussaint's "The Bright Mississippi" which I believe - and I am speculating here - features a very large bass drum. With t... | |
| Magnepan Owners - Need Your Thoughts Please Bifwynne I sometimes use the 122 wpc ARC VT-130 SE with MMGs and many years back paired it with Maggie 3.5s. I've run the latter full range and the former with subs, but have had great success with both set-ups. I've generally preferred 8 ohm taps... | |
| does a subwoofer kill stereo sound? Disrespectuflly disagree that "subs exaggerate...."Until someone has set up a subwoofer using RTA (and/or digital room correction), they should probably refrain from sweeping generalizations about what a sub does or does not do. A properly set-up ... | |
| Speakers that excel at depth/layering/space Jax,If your MBL reference was to the Stereophile show near LAX 7 or 8 years back, we're on the same page. That demo was also the basis on which I made my comment and the most convincing display of imaging/staging that I've ever heard from any syst... | |
| Great songs and artists who virtually own them? Interesting call by Ballan on "Dust My Broom".I know that the song is usually credited to Robert Johnson (and the song is so elemental that I can see why the choice was made) but...I'd say that Elmore James OWNS that song (just MHO). I also suspec... | |
| does a subwoofer kill stereo sound? No. Stereo imaging is not impaired by a sub, provided that you've managed the x-over properly. Even if you screw that up, you're probably okay on the stereo separation front, so long as you're crossing resonably well below 100hz.MartyPS As Jax poi... | |
| Speakers that excel at depth/layering/space Nothing IME can touch the MBL 101. If they come down in price $50K or $60K, I'm all over a pair.Marty | |
| 8 ohm speaker that sounds like sonus faber Having said all that - the Fidelio Encore might well be a better call for the OP's needs. I really only referenced the P/E because it's the model I own - and know best. I've briefly heard the F/E at a local dealer and agree that it shares the fami... |