clearthinker
Responses from clearthinker
| In praise of the ESL-57 Yup. I have run electrostatics in my main system for nearly 50 years.For 10 years Martin Logan CLX Anniversary.Never used 57s though.Two biggest pluses: transparent mid no cone can replicate; no crossover unless you listen to grunge or metal and ... | |
| One of a kind speakers by eminence If they are worth NOTHING why would anyone shopping in Sally Army Thrift pay anything for them? Durrr.Best not to exaggerate.Anyway, price of timber today there must be $100 there at least. | |
| High end stereo preamps? Worth it? Many posts saying hi-end preaamps improve sound.One post saying 'why', surely the additional circuitry cannot improve the signal it is fed with. Doesn't it just add noise?Or does it add some aspect to the sound that these posters find pleasing?Ca... | |
| Analogue only preamp ideas? - no need for internal DAC! Why not buy a phono amp and run it through a volume control direct into the power amp(s)? Less components and less wire.If you want to listen to vinyl only a pre-amp is not contributing. Indeed it is just adding its own signature and a little mo... | |
| I may need to join A'gon Anonymous (AA) We need to build systems that please us long-term. I'm not saying don't change anything but only buy pieces you have auditioned a week or more in your system and you know won't need an upgrade for many years. Changing short-term and multiple pie... | |
| I am indecisive about choice due to room size 12x12 x 8 is limited,,,12x12 with say a 16 ft ceiling, now you have options. Options? Turn the room on its side? | |
| Can anyone identify the model of this speakers? I don't want to use iCloud drive. Spies are everywhere.Post the photos some other way. | |
| Tweaks you got rid of because they were not effective (enough)? Almost all tweaks are snake oil and make no difference plus or minus.Two that really work are room treatment, when applied effectively. Dedicated rectangular listening room is much better but don't go too far towards anechoic just because you can... | |
| Thinking about the good old days... Good ol' days? I'm still living them with my long-standing high end anachrophile system.And the music was better then too.... | |
| A long harsh digital trip - final meter? How right you are. Just the same as the last meter of power cable when the power comes from a substation 400 yards away and thence from a source that may be a hundred miles away or more.Active cleaners - yes, to get some of the noise off the line... | |
| Pondering a change after 30 odd years... Brings back memories. I salivated over Accoustat 2+2s 40something years ago. Couldn't afford them.I knew I wanted to go panels though.later I bought Audiostatics and still have them.A few years ago I changed to Martin Logan CLX Anniversaries in ... | |
| If you could, what live performances would you enjoy re-living? Amazed no-one mentioned this yet....Dylan at the Albert Hall 1966. I was 16, went with 3 schoolfriends.Poor seats in the gods.Listening to the recordings reminds me the man was a poet even then at just 25. His delivery and precise enunciation wer... | |
| Beware Audiocadabra Cables: High Return Shipping and Won't Get Full Refund! Demonstrates just one of the many dangers of that bottomless pit called 'cables'. Active gear will always affect reproduced sound more than passive gear. Factor that in to your spending plans. | |
| Dynamic range - effect on different speaker cables - even very high quality ones The dynamic range is in the recording. Locked in. It can't be increased from what it is, whatever gear is used. Yes in most current commercial recordings it is horribly compressed.All that is needed is replay gear that has at least the dynamic ... | |
| RIP Eddie Van Halen. What was your first stereo you rocked to VH on? I had just bought a Linn, my previous tt was Garrard Lab 80. That played into a Ferrograph integrated amp and tall Cambridge R50 transmission line speakers. Good English system. I particularly liked the speakers.In the early 80s I bought a used... |