dynacohum
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| More watts or better power ? If I read your OP correctly your sole reason for asking is that the rated amp power is at the low end of the recommended range for your speakers. Sorry…forget that and just enjoy the music. You have an excellent system, well chosen to provide a ... | |
| Preamp/Integrated with Loudness button In my long career selling Yamaha HiFi I must have explained this thousands of times. Loudness buttons are useless unless a method is provided to calibrate the inflection point to the room and speakers in use. IME, without this, every example ove... | |
| Rotel RA-1592 MK II or something else to deliver around 200W to B&W towers around $3000? The new MK2 models were voiced by “the legendary Marantz golden-ear, Ken Ishiwata” before his passing, so any carryover from prior tin-eared Rotels may be unwarranted. Also consider the OP’s musical tastes. What I might prefer for my sound balance... | |
| My battle with sibilance. Schiit Loki+ has an EQ point at 4kH. They are a clever lot at Schiit! I keep one in my tape loop for use only when needed. | |
| Why have capacitors improved so much over the years? Richard Marsh published an article in Audio Magazine in 1980 that detailed the range of parasitic loss factors inherent in capacitors. Dialectric Absorption and Dissipation Factor in films, and Equivalent Series Resistance in electrolytics. He com... | |
| And My Budget Is... Chayro, thank you for your post. It smacks of...wisdom! And MC, did you ever get to hear the "full range Linaeum"? I did at the Stereophile show at the Waldorf in NYC in '97...they were the wierdest looking but one of the most sonically transpa... | |
| Getting into Stevie Ray Vaughn I am a Blues guy…I was inspired by hearing the 1st Paul Butterfield album at age 15, and ran down to buy my first harp. That album featured the guitar work of Michael Bloomfield and set the bar for my sense of what’s great. There was Danny Kalb in... | |
| My New Magnepan 1.7i's sound dull and lifeless on the top end...why? Where along the vertical axis are you measuring? 1.7is and all QR Maggies are only good in the middle one third of their overall height. That’s why 3.7is are so much better… true ribbons do not have that limitation. | |
| What’s up with Magnepan service? Russ has it pretty much right, but there is another angle. By underpricing LRS they created a flood of demand, and even before the pandemic hit they were unable to keep up. Business 101 would dictate a hefty rise in the retail of the LRS to reliev... | |
| Allison and Snell - Against the Wall Wisdom Audio makes an extensive range of in or on wall speakers using line arrays, planar magnetic drivers, DSP integration. | |
| Magnepan, Best midrange? Quasi-Ribbon Magnepans all have a very restricted MR/HF listening window approximating the middle 1/3 of the panel...higher or lower and you hear a drastic rolloff of detail. You need to go to the 3.7i with its full length true ribbon to get the ... | |
| Everybody’s Top 5 - Vinyl My top fifteen; some are chosen for SQ, some for musical merit over SQ. No Jazz or Classical here...that would be too tough!The Band - The Band (their pinnacle for both)Ry Cooder - Jazz (Paradise And Lunch has better songs).Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow... | |
| Subs And The Downstairs Neighbors Low profile subs for cheap are available from Parts Express: https://www.parts-express.com/Dayton-Audio-SUB-1000L-10-100-Watt-Low-Profile-Powered-Subw-300-639For not so cheap from Bluesound:https://www.bluesound.com/products/pulse-subwoofer/ | |
| An ideal (minimal) 2.1 setup How about a NAD M10, some Revel M106s and a T/7x? With eARC the audio will be automatically downmixed to 2 channel…no loss of information, and the speakers will give a solid central image without a dedicated channel. Dirac Live will tune the syst... | |
| Tube Preamp - What to buy? Check out a Black Ice Fusion F360, although you'd need to add a phono preamp to hit your target. Plenty of those to choose from. This has some innovative tone/eq circuits built in. |