pubul57
Responses from pubul57
| Best Preamp = No Preamp? While you can do that, I think you'll find that most listners will suggest you still need an active preamp for optimal sound - that is the volume controls in DACs, while functional, are not up to the standards of dedicated preamplifiers. | |
| Merlin Upgrade Experience I agree with all that Jamesv says above. I recently bought VSM-MXe to replace my VSM-MX. Why did I make the change? Well, it seems to me that every update to this classic speaker has been an improvement. I love the Merlins, so if there was an impr... | |
| joule electra vs. atma-sphere any input? Optarchie, what speakers are you using? | |
| Soft squishy feet I won a Salamander too. I bought solid maple wood (2") from TimberNation and use thise cork and rubber squares sold by MapleShade (I bought them froom an indsutrual supplier for about $2 a piece)and place the equipment direct on the maple shelves.... | |
| Soft squishy feet Jc51373, it may also mean that you amp is very well designed and does not need any further isolation. On some equipment, isolation seems to make a difference, on others there is no or negligible difference. | |
| Power: Good or Bad Thank you for your responses. It is really interesting. I'm starting to see more clearly the primary importance of system matching and synergy, and the diffuculty we sometimes get into when we ask "What is the best this or that?", independent of s... | |
| Power: Good or Bad As I said earlier, clearly inefficent speakers or/and those with difficult impedance profiles must have lots of power to sound good, and a low powered amp will not perform well. But, a better way of positioning the issue is to assume that we start... | |
| Best Value Speaker Model for the Buck? Another vote for Vandersteens, most especially the 2 series for value and for an essentially full-range speaker. | |
| Power: Good or Bad Pauly, I suspect you are right - more power = more stuff = stuff deteriorates the signal. That is my basic reasoning; although, I do think a great designer can minimize the "damage" and provide adequate power for today's tougher speaker loads and ... | |
| Power: Good or Bad I think a great designer can design a great sounding high power amp. I own CAT JL2s which are 100 Watt, Class Triodes. They are powerful and delicate and among the best sounding amps in the world IMHO. But, the amp to my non-engineering eye is com... | |
| Power: Good or Bad Hard to put "better" into words, but easy to hear. I guess, I mean less mechanical sounding, more organic, more low level detail, a more natural sound to voice and strings. More coherent and better balanced across the frequency spectrum. More real... | |
| Power: Good or Bad No doubt an amplifier must provide sufficient juice to provide adequate output, and the most divine 8 watt amp will sound completely inadequate with a low efficiency speakers. But somehow, I suspect (sort of what I am asking)that lower powered des... | |
| Review: Convergent Audio JL-2 Tube amp Severed, what pre do you use with CAT amp? | |
| Cable elevators I want to believe in these things, because it is a relatively cheap tweak. I did notice that there were just a handful of set ups at the recent audio show in NYC that used any kind of cable lifts, I mean like 2-4 out over 100 rooms. I found that m... | |
| Review: Ars Sonum Filarmonia SE Tube amp Just heard the Ars-Sonum at the NYC Stereophile show. Your review makes perfect sense to me now, and clearly this integrated has to be considered by all Merlin owners - it is a special pairing that certainly produced one of the best sounds of the ... |