newbee
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| A mistake spending too much on amplification? Chiho, Whether you hear differences or not, or whether the differences are large or small (to you) depends mainly on what you are trying to accomplish by changing amps and how experienced a listener you are. If you have no specific goals and only ... | |
| How to cut sorbothane? If you're handy at all you might visit Home Depot and buy a piece of pipe of the appropriate diameter and then grind the end so that it has a sharp edge. Or you could buy a cookie cutter and sharpen its edge. | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? Gregm, Just a thought in addition to your comments on 'dynamic range'. I've come to believe that the real importance of getting a system to sound like 'live' instruments, is not so much the difference between minimum SPL and maximum SPL, but wheth... | |
| Am I the only one purchasing hybrid disc's....... Pawlowski - I'm listening to a two channel redbook system. My point of reference is other well recorded redbook recordings. I do not have either a SACD player or a multichannel system. But I'm very much into audio and I have a large collection by ... | |
| First round of auditions disappointing Tvad and others,Tvad, I noticed the Shahinians - a big caveat, note that they use a driver which may not be obtainable to a user if one (or more) needed to be replaced. :-( Re comments of Seadweller's wife that the speaker sounded boxy. Am I the o... | |
| Can you convert a pre-amp to a headphone amp? Here is a Rube Goldberg method. Put splitters on your pre-amp out puts. Plug your amp into one side, and some RCA to headphone adaptor cables into the other. Plug your headphones into the adaptor and listen. If your pre-amp has enuf gain and there... | |
| your favorite music Steve O, Yep, I'm especially fond of those big old clattery Bosdendorf Imperials. BTW I've got Gould's Goldbergs. Do they get any better than that? :-) | |
| EH 6550s or Svetlana 6550C EH's will have more high end energy. Ditch thoughts about Svetlana 6550's, they are Sovteks in desguise. The SED "winged C" (Old Svetlana's) are IMHO far more neutral in tone and very rugged. The only caveat on the SED's is to be sure you get thos... | |
| First round of auditions disappointing well. I hate to say it but Aball is right. (:-))About all you can tell when you hear a dealer's set up of a set of speakers of good general reputation that sounds poor is that the dealer hasn't spent much time on set up. Good quality and well set ... | |
| Moscode 401HR's Sonic Character Asa, FWIW, if you are considering buying th Primaluna amps consider how well they will interface with your pre-amp. | |
| How to Preserve New Shiny Banana Speaker Ends? FWIW. Its my understanding that the only real benefit from using gold (plated) anything is to allow more efficient conductance of current AND to make this effective both surfaces should be gold. So if your speaker connectors are not gold plated it... | |
| A series of underperforming setups...Solution? "I have no options for speaker placement."Then suck it up and learn to enjoy 'music' with your room/system limitations. If your bass is too boomy or uneven get smaller stand mount speakers. Don't waste any more money on big audiophile equipment ba... | |
| Some great sounding classical "warhorses" ?? Chabrier - Ansermet on London (Also on a Merc Living Presence by Paray if you like Merc's).Carmen Suite #1 Beecham on EMI. And for something different and something I greatly prefer is the Shchedrin rescoring of the work for strings and 47 precuss... | |
| your favorite music My main interest is in classical solo piano music, so -BeethovenBrahmsChopinDebussyLizstProkofievRachmaninovSchumannSchubertMy favorite better known artists include -RichterGilesArrauMoravecBrendelRoge'OgawaKissinJust to name a fewAnd I never seem... | |
| 6ohm speakers to 4/8/16 ohm amp? Depends on the actual minimum impedence, not the nominal impedence, and the impedence curve. That said, you should listen to the speakers connected to the 4 ohm taps and the 8 ohm taps and pick the ones that sound best to you. Typically the 4 ohm ... |