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| Comments per Brand in Discussion Forums It's a conspiracy. Unspoken, unwritten agreements to not talk or write about certain brands. They're keeping secrets about the really good stuff to keep it to themselves. You know... THEM.More seriously, Human nature is assuming that whatever path... | |
| Wise audio aphorisms "...you're confusing reality with realism." | |
| In your opinion, what is Hi, Medium and Low end? Gogirl, I'll be serious for a moment, Yes, it does take time and more than you'll ever learn by just reading these forums, although they can help too. The biggest learning curve is knowing what you like and what you are willing to compromise, or n... | |
| Highest component/cable ratio? Call me "Not the Cable Guy".Cables are about 3% of my total system MSRP. I hear the difference but I'm never sure if I hear the truth and throwing money at an illusion doesn't appeal to me. Bigger bass, higher highs, etc. does not mean accuracy to... | |
| In your opinion, what is Hi, Medium and Low end? So, now we have 4 categories: lo-end, mid-end, hi-end, and wretched excess and Albert is the poster boy for the latter. Way to go Albert, I'm jealous. | |
| In your opinion, what is Hi, Medium and Low end? Let me put it another way."Mid-fi" is like a handyman that bows out when he gets in over his head."Hi-fi" is a specialist technician that's dangerous out of his field. | |
| Mono blocks on different phases of the sub panel? 120V(+)---[amp]---common neutral---[amp]---120V(-) What could possibly go wrong with that? | |
| In your opinion, what is Hi, Medium and Low end? "Mid-fi" tries to be everything to everybody and usually falls short in every way."Hi-fi" does one or two things well but fails miserably at something else. | |
| Stranded vs singal core conductors and skin effect I done a lot of DIY, including a linestage, DAC, speakers and acoustics but good, inexpensive speaker cable is too easily available for me to bother wasting my time. I just look for a sensible design with teflon insulation. | |
| Need help What monoblock power amps for bass? DACT, Marchand, Goldpoint, Acoustic-Dimension and Shallco make attenuators, Shallco being ladder type. Most have 10K versions and some have more than 24 steps. There's probably more brands I'm not aware of. Even the Placette passive is 10K, as far... | |
| Need help What monoblock power amps for bass? Don't use a pot. I've tried a few in this situation and they just sounded ugly. Constant twiddling and never found the right setting. The really good audio pots are not the right range for this type of fine tuning. A series stereo attenuator in th... | |
| Class A, AB Here's my question about the Plinius, and others, but I'll use the Plinius SA100 for example.Rated at 100W stereo into 8 ohms. More into 4 ohms and all the way up to something like 650W into 4 ohms as a bridged monoblock. It would be silly to thin... | |
| Ribbons caught my att.- should I buy or build? "How can I match or supercede high-end companies that have all this talent and measuring instruments that I don't."That's the thing about the DCAB-1 (sorry, spelled it wrong before), it has real time analysis. Wouldn't tackle a job like this witho... | |
| Ribbons caught my att.- should I buy or build? At one point, with a budget similar to yours, I was planning to build a set of speakers based on Boehlender Graebner "ribbons", similar to Genesis and Wisdom designs. More like the Genesis with an array of ribbon tweeters since the Wisdom ribbon, ... | |
| frequency spike at 200hz Whether ported or sealed should not make much difference in this case. You did your homework and I wish I had a better answer than this: Location, location, location. Anything else just doesn't jibe with the info you've given. Have you tried them ... |