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| What are the best loudspeakers under $4000 to re-create lifelike piano Before you evaluate your speakers for their piano recreation's ability try to attend a live performance in a recital hall (preferably), a concert hall, or even a jazz club. The first thing to note is the size of the room! Then note how loud (or s... | |
| Question FWIW, IMHO, even given the importance of matching your electronics to your speakers, matching the speakers to your room, as well as their set up requjirement is of equal or greater importance. Planners and electrostats require room placement, di... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I can believe this - I just spent half an hour posting and when I hit the post button it was lost, and guess who's sorry! Anyway - gs5556, Re your Schubert recommendation, until I heard Mackerras and the OAE doing the 9th (and 8th) I don't think ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados rvpiano, FWIW I'll contribute a bit, but since I (and many others) have already posted in the past to lists of best/favorites etc and I'm too old to just replicate those recommendations, I'm just going to post about music/performers/genre that I'm... | |
| Interconnect Length Are you connecting the phono cartridge directly to the phono stage of the pre-amp, or are you connecting to the output of a seperate phone stage?If the former I agree with the comment about 3ft. If the latter you could stretch it out a bit, but st... | |
| What should my next upgrade be? Your best experience I can really argue about replacing your speakers (the other changes are really 'fine tuning' changes which make a can make a difference, but not necessarily enough). The caveat to acquisition of different speakers - make sure that these speakers a... | |
| Questions from a Tube Preamp newbie 1) Some pre-amps are 'hard on tubes' - usually the manufacturers will acknowledge this and will recommend using only very rugged tubes (Audible Illusions and Audio Research come to mind. ) Under normal conditions with most tubed pre-amps you shoul... | |
| How important is the rack you use for your components IMHO an audio rack's contribution to audio is in improving control of the effect of vibrations on the components either in dissipating them (the vibrations) or isolating them (the components). Much of the effect is component dependent - turntables... | |
| Room Correction Consider using omni speakers. Considering that you do not place emphasis on listening from a fixed location they might be perfect for you. | |
| Soundstage, layering and tube differences jim, If you don't know the answer to your question, how will you know that anyone who answers really knows? Go figure.Anyway, the 'illusion from the harmonic distortion' is related to the difference between solid state devices which typically have... | |
| Soundstage, layering and tube differences Your observation about SED's vs Mullards IMHO falls right into the same observations that can be made about equipment in general. Stuff (including tubes) that have a 'full bottom end' more often than not obscures some of the information present in... | |
| Issues with AudiogoN forum website, anyone? +2. FWIW it seems to not be so much of a problem if the pointer arrow is at a lower position when clicking it. | |
| Another soundstage question Kalali, FWIW, and it has already been touched upon, often much of what folks are willing to accept as 'height' is a result of the design of the speakers which might have no relationship to reproducing what is actually on the disc. For example, pla... | |
| Another soundstage question Kalali, I just re-read your OP. If there is anything that really sticks out re speaker set up that I think might influence the height issue for you, is the distance your speakers are from the wall/bay behind them. I really don't know your rooms di... | |
| Another soundstage question IME soundstage height is enhanced with equipment which has good HF resolution (the low level detail needed is often lost is lesser equipment) but a lot of speakers don't really open up, soundstage wise, at lower volume. I had this experience with... |