bigkidz
Responses from bigkidz
| Is toeing speakers a bad idea? Audio Physic has info on speaker placement. That is the best suggestion I have found to date. Toe in depends on what you equipment can produce as far as soundstage, dimension, etc. Happy Listening. | |
| My New Year’s Wish for my fellow audiophiles. All I want for Christmas is a 1959 Les Paul! Other than that, everyone is welcome to our listening room in northern New Jersey for fun and listening pleasure. | |
| Speakers - Your "Safest" Choice First of all, you are not that specific to get good responses. Why is $20K your budget? Equipment you will be using? Many responses here are form people who don't really know that much meaning they have comments that are general and have not ha... | |
| Eliminated my preamp with amazing results Not so surprised as the Melos is an old preamp that most likely muted the sound compared to a more up to date preamp. | |
| My speaker upgrade journey - and a few questions From what I understand the OP listened to older R&R music which typically are poorly recorded. If that is true, then the ATC speaker probably did float his boat. That would explain a lot to me. | |
| High End System Building. How important is the matching, cabling and room? Thoughts ? How many dealers, reviewers or show rooms have great rooms? I get what you are hearing with your rooms but if your equipment does not offer the correct tone, separation, soundstage, speed, dynamic contrast then what does that mean for the room? ... | |
| Tekton Open Baffle Speakers @ricevs - I agree, all true but I would imagine that the cost of the speaker would probably rise and also not to mention improving with better drivers. I am fan of field coil speakers and good ones are hard to find. Your suggestion to build your... | |
| My speaker upgrade journey - and a few questions I am not sure what you have heard and how you define the sound you are looking for. I have heard a pair of ATC's at John's and they sounded sort of boxy to my ears. Not very open or layered so that is what I look for to begin with. But I also l... | |
| A little deeper on amp power please.... Power or wpc do not translate into sound quality. The Class A mono block tube amps we build easily outperform many higher wpc amps on many different speakers at various ratings or recommendations by the manufacturer. We drove a pair of Vanderste... | |
| Best Options For A Tubed Preamp - $2500 Or Less, Preferably Used To Maximize Value Counterpoint SA-3000 or SA-5 (5.1). Then you are done except for upgrading. | |
| If Conrad Johnson still made a DAC it would sound like?? Used Wadia and then upgrade the parts to smooth out the top end. | |
| DAC that compete with EMM M3 and playback design m6 Send your Cary to me for upgrading. Last two we upgraded sounded amazing and may actually be better than the DACs you are looking at. We build a 101D DHT tube DAC and it competes with ours. I liked it so much, I purchased one for myself! Over ... | |
| Happy Holidays to All To everyone here - all the best and thanks for all your posts and questions. Very much appreciated. Every week I see an accident on the high way 287 in New Jersey. Yesterday morning, the same. Two cars together, horn blowing and smoke rising. ... | |
| Robert Plant @n80 - might have to break out the old 1960 Les Paul Reissue and play along to some Lep Zep today. Thanks for the suggestion. All you other mothers, happy holidays. | |
| No sneering Please @bigtiwn - how many reviewers do you personally know? How many systems of theirs have you heard on a regular basis? Are you an industry person? Manufacturer? Unless you have heard their systems and can hear what you hear, then IMO, the review ... |