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| Shahinian Oblisk I'm no technical guy, but Onemug is right. A tube amp, other than an OTL (output transformerless) design, uses an output transformer to match its output with the impedence load your speaker presents. A solid state design generally does not use an ... | |
| Shahinian Oblisk Your question is a little unclear, but I'd guess the OHM setting you're referring to is on the amp. If so, determine from the manual or the website what the nominal impedence of your speaker (expressed in ohms) is, then use the speaker terminals f... | |
| Why do mass marketed CD's sound so crappy? Sean's final point brings to mind the story, I believe true, of a record producer from the 60s who reputedly did the final mix of the records he produced over the telephone, because he was listening through the same speaker you would have in the t... | |
| Why do mass marketed CD's sound so crappy? Hammergjh: Yeah, they heard the difference; they could also easily hear the difference between the 24/96 master tape we got to hear in the control room and the 16/44.1 CD they mixed down from that tape. But they're really not the record producers ... | |
| Why do mass marketed CD's sound so crappy? Birdwizard is right on. In our audio society we went to a recording studio where we heard a local artist do up a first shot at a song he'd just composed, and got to see the various tricks they could perform with the pro tools software in the studi... | |
| Theil CS-5 They were and in my view still are excellent speakers, though there were a couple of things I recall both from hearing them and the reviews:1. They need a LOT of current and power, as they had a very cruel dip in impedance in them. Big Krells and ... | |
| Krell KSA 50 vs. todays ss amps? My recollection is that the Mk II had some changes made to it to make it more stable--I think if you shot an e-mail or made a call to Krell they could probably tell you pretty quickly. | |
| Dunlavy question Maybe a bit more "ease" on big orchestral climaxes. Just make sure you have enough of a room to accommodate them and their bigger sound. | |
| Richard Gray 400 ? My experience is the same as Slv's; I've now got one on each of three dedicated lines. An important caveat, though, is that it sounded exactly like S23chang described when I first inserted it into the system. My dealer warned me, and he was right,... | |
| Is the Rives Audio Parc an audiophile component The last two points are pretty much correct at pointing out alternatives to the Parc; however, having a much-used analog source, a DSD source and a digital source with a D/A converter that I far prefer over those in other units, I welcome the thou... | |
| Is the Rives Audio Parc an audiophile component Adding to Greg's post, I have a friend who has a system including Dynaudio Evidence Masters, Levinson 33 monos and the Levinson 32 pre and top of the line digital. He can hear every change to a component, cable, power cord, you name it, in that sy... | |
| Best rca digital cable for Audio Logic 24MXL dac? I'm going to probably try the ERS sheet trick. My bet is if you use it to wall off the digital from the analog side it could make a significant difference. Powder, any guidance? | |
| Living Stereo SACD Releases While I agree that the RCAs are quite good (I haven't compared them with the Classic re-issues yet), I echo Gaudio eek's post. I played the Morning Noon and Night in Vienna cut from the Mercury Suppe/Auber Overtures SACD for the NJ Audio Society m... | |
| Guitar playing audiophiles, Martin or Taylor? Agree with all about the personal nature of guitars. As Tom pointed out, even two guitars of the same model from the same manufacturer can sound different from each other (I noticed this when I bought my Guild F-212 years ago, choosing it over a c... | |
| has anyone tryed Ginko Cloud I use them in conjunction with another vibration damping/isolation product, the K-Works IsobaseKs (a product involving innertubes, silicone damping, and sand and lead damping), under my Forsell transport, modded Sony SCD 777ES and Lamm amplifiers.... |