fsonicsmith
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| Footers under my speakers double the perceived value of my speakers! Jim’s book is ok, but underrates importance of quality of gear. Setup can’t fix mediocre gear. You can’t reach upper level sound by tuning and tweaking average gear. Anyone disagree? I’m not too bothered by that. :) Wow, this just gave me a Eurek... | |
| Footers under my speakers double the perceived value of my speakers! Revolution going on in digital, and a new DAC under assessment, and I'm going to spend time on a stand? I'll let someone else do that. Can anybody understand Doug's entire posts? I can't. I am reminded of Geoff but Geoff's weird statements ar... | |
| Footers under my speakers double the perceived value of my speakers! Doug (Shroeder);I respect your opinion and agree with much of what you have said in this thread with the exception of the height theory, and on that, I was the first to disagree. Have you read or even just casually perused Jim Smith’s "Get Better ... | |
| Footers under my speakers double the perceived value of my speakers! Scary how few audiophiles can arrive at correct conclusions regarding such things. The improvement is not due to vibration control, but to physically elevating the speaker. The speaker will sound far better with raised soundstage. Just one reason ... | |
| Mingus Ah Um by Mofi millercarbon5,116 posts07-10-2020 1:58pmWhen you get up around $125- or even when you don’t, any time sound quality is paramount- save your money and look for it at Better Records. A White Hot Mingus does cost substantially more. However it sounds... | |
| The very best sound: Direct to Disc I'm a little surprised that the MoFi Mingus Ah Um D2D, featured in the latest S'Phile has not been mentioned. It is largely sold out on preorder. It is not cheap-$125 and up depending on reseller for two 45 rpm records reportedly (Jim Austin wrote... | |
| Is the Manley Steelhead still relevant? Time and time again, my rig amazes me and since I have a Steelhead, I know it is relevant and one of the reasons I get such good sound. Last night I forgot I had the original RCA pressing of Mingus' Tijuana Moods that I "inherited" (he is still al... | |
| Audio Note AN/E vs. DeVore O/96 Sorry about my typos. I need to use my readers when typing on my laptop and don't. When at the office I have a much larger screen. I think I have learned more from this experiment about audio than any other transition or shift I have made over the... | |
| Audio Note AN/E vs. DeVore O/96 Since this is not a note about Audio Note, I apologize. This is for @prof I put my O/93's back in, in place of my Spendor D7.2's. I played two albums that I had just listened to last night. Car Seat Headrest's "Making a Door Less Open" was more en... | |
| Audio Note AN/E vs. DeVore O/96 @prof I intend to put the Devores back in this week and will report. In fact, I listened for quite a while last night more critically than normal in preparation for the swap. I listened to the Perspective2 Graphenes for an extended period of time ... | |
| Which To Choose...Devore Fidelity O/93 vs Zu Soul Supreme ? Herb Reichert loves the DeVore O93/XA25 combo. Not to digress for no good reason, but Herb imho has gone off the deep edge. He has no criticism of anything that makes him smile. He loves the audio equivalents of Norman Rockwell paintings. A cri... | |
| Which To Choose...Devore Fidelity O/93 vs Zu Soul Supreme ? Where are you located?I own the O/93's. Whoopycat pretty much nailed it. I would add that over time, there is a slight glitch in the upper midrange. Rightly or wrongly, I attribute it to the two way design without a dedicated midrange. At times th... | |
| Audio Note AN/E vs. DeVore O/96 And I still find myself wishing I’d been able to hear the Devore O/96 in my room! You still like the O/93s it seems?I do. I think. I am going on five months of having the Spendors in my system. In a month I will put the Devores back in and see wha... | |
| Audio Note AN/E vs. DeVore O/96 I’m not sure you can have it all with one system... maybe throwing a boat load of cash in to it, but even then I’m not convinced. I think a variety of gear to rotate in and out may be the only way.Right on fjn04!Every six months I rotate out my D... | |
| Question For Those In The Know About Audio Research Power Amps I talked to my AR dealer this morning. ARC is evidently charging $275 for the KT150's. That is EACH. So in case you are not good at math, with shipping and tax, you are looking at close to $2400 to re-tube a Ref 150SE like mine. It tempts me to se... |