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| Pass Amps Class A operation silly question: if you can't "tell" by listening then why bother obsessing about when it "leaves" class A? It's not like your speakers are suddenly fed a distored signal the magnitude of which swamps out low level signals-- 15 watts rms (in any cl... | |
| Audio Research Reference 5 Preamp It's interesting to note that the implementation/architecture of the REF5 resulted in what has to be a much cheaper raw cost of labor and parts--versus the REF 1,2,3 designs. At one point I had a REF 1 and was very impressed with the layout and re... | |
| Who sells lead shot pellets to fill an equip.stand All this lead-talk conjurs memories of fishing during my childhood days when lead sinkers were on every tray in the tackle box, and all over my vest. No wonder i'm hooked to high fidelity rendering audio gear. | |
| Totem Forest or Mani-2 signature? Do you think a Plinius SA102 would be a good match for the Mani-2 Sigs...or better with the Forest?Thanks | |
| musicality and dynamics without enhancements Welcome to the Jungle | |
| The focus and air lie have you all gone mad? Who cares? Why not just shut up, stop typing and listen to the damen thing that makes you so-called happy? | |
| The focus and air lie Mrt/Trel, right on the money.What's funny/sad is that there is a body of audiophools who assume they are more passionate about music than the dude jamming on an iPod (plain old snobbery)...in any event who cares. We all listen differently, and as ... | |
| The focus and air lie Shad, I was wondering about that too...looks like there was some inside scoop and the powers that be, well, beed.Too bad as that was one of the better exchanges we've seen in some time. | |
| The focus and air lie "You can feel the air in your face and body if you are seating in front rows"ahh that would be something else...make sure you don't inhale---anymorehi-fi systems are not necessary to get the "soul" of the music...you are either moved emotionally b... | |
| An Audiophile's journey Atmasphere:Do you have a notion of the PSD for a given musical genre?Most of the power in the musical waveform is actually contained toward the lower frequencies. Since power in the signal diminishes anyway with increasing frequencies the transist... | |
| Help needed: bizarre voltage readings Cpclee,True or False:1)You measured this with ALL your components unplugged2)The receptacle (where you measured 122-0-0) was on a different circuit (off a diff breaker) from the outlet that measured 122-4-4.If 1 and 2 are both true, I have no idea... | |
| Time to change. But to what? Aud/Mimb that sounds like a good time. Please do post your findings. As a Dynaudio S5.4 owner (read: biased) I concur with your (audphile) findings. Very coherent across the range, stunning vocal clarity, accurate dynamics, shimmering highs that s... | |
| Cary Audio SLP 05 PreampWhat tubes are you using? Ozzyas to the range ...I know what you mean. I tried the slp-05 with my x250.5 and same problem...it's due to excessive gain in the system (pass ~30 dB gain, slp-05 ~8 dB gain) with typical ~5vrms balanced digital sources. The 8dB from the Cary is... | |
| Buzz about pure class A solid state amplifiers ? the "buzz" about class A amps usually results in popular discussions about crossover distortion...it's easier to imagine this voltage based boundary condition than, say thermal distortion mechanisms manifesting non-linearites which may actually do... | |
| what ARC combo- Ref 1/Ref 110 or Ref 3/VT 100 MK3? I second what audphile states (had ls15, ls25Mk I and II, and Ref1, and a VT 100mkII) and given above pairings, as Kschiu says, the Ref3 -> VT100MKIII would sound superb into the same speakers (assume either speaker can be drive effectively by ... |