fsonicsmith
Responses from fsonicsmith
| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? One day when the virus contagion is under control there will be these events called "audio shows" again. I highly recommend Axpona. It gives all of us the opportunity to hear the range of moderate to cost-no-object systems. Many times the extremel... | |
| LSA 20 Statement Speakers I have reached a certain point in my audio life where I won’t put up with shortcuts or manufacturer-opted compromises. At least no more than I have to put up with. If you look at my profile you will see signs of that. I have since added two headph... | |
| LSA 20 Statement Speakers I've said this before in another similar thread. Somewhere in China there is a factory that cranks out hundreds of thousands of these curved enclosures and anyone who orders a sufficient minimum quantity can customs-spec the cut-outs. Baltic ... | |
| AKM makes the best DACs @melm Great post. The main intent of my post is to point out that optimum DAC design is osteopathic and not allopathic. Treat the system and not the symptom. And I say this as a lawyer who sees only MD's as doctors. | |
| AKM makes the best DACs Funny [to me] that Chord gets mentioned because imho Chord is a company that in Ahab fashion focuses so much attention upon the DA chipset at the expense of many of the other things that matter like the input and output stages. A good DAC should b... | |
| AKM makes the best DACs To simply say what others have said differently, your statement is tantamount to stating "The GE 9X jet engine makes the best jet plane". I try my best to resist the "what I have is best" tendency so often demonstrated on this Board and all audio ... | |
| The worst sentence in audio writing Just not true. I wish it were though. It would invalidate about 99.7% of Mikey Fremer's audio writing. As an aside, does anyone want to participate in a one year over and under and to when Mikey will finally shut up about his new electrical scheme... | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time Say what you will about the basic tenets of the mental construct "PRAT", unlike the adjective "musical" at least it is an ethos. | |
| I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time Without meaning to be snide, I believe finding PRAT unexpectedly is like finding the face of Jesus on a Lay's potato chip. | |
| Antique Sound Labs Joseph Lau is not “unfound”. I trade email with him from time to time and have purchased audio accessories from him at good prices. He is a joy-and a wealth of practical experience and knowledge. | |
| Transmission line speakers! I started designing Transmission line speakers in the mid '70's. They can be real good for the money. These days I use a ported cabinet design because you can get a better final performance curve. Though not a speaker designer, this meets with ... | |
| AMR DPP-777 DAC tubes It took me a while to figure it out with some trial and error and head scratching but the way you ended up trying is not it. It has been some time but IIRC I removed the sides and slid the circuit board out. Contact the importer for AMR/iFi and I ... | |
| van den Hul Colibri - Reconditioning John McGurk is first class. My Crimson XGW Strad went back for 200 hr. adjustment six months ago. The turn-around time was about two months. There is no reason to worry, particularly if you have your original box with the mounting hardware. It is ... | |
| Lyra Lambda Atlas/Etna I am listening to the Etna Lamda as we speak. Vastly hot-rodded 301 with Reed 3P 10.5 into a Steelhead to my ARC Ref 6 to an Ampsandsound Nautilus driving Spendor 7.2's via Auditorium 23. Chuck Prophet's "No Other Love" has just been re-released... | |
| Tonearm that surface mount without cutting a hole? Reed arms surface mount. |