fsonicsmith
Responses from fsonicsmith
| What are the current "speaker trends" in your opinions? I visited most of the rooms at AXPONA this year and I would answer that there is no trend. There were line arrays, wide baffles, open baffles, side firing woofers with narrow baffles, you name it. I agree that the "vintage thing" is making a comeb... | |
| A civil discussion about the state of Audio Research I want to say a hearty thank-you to Jeff Haagenstad of Exogal for putting his perspective into this topic. I appreciate the positive comments. But why not address the questions that remain unanswered; who is going to replace Ward Fiebiger with eng... | |
| A civil discussion about the state of Audio Research The beauty of having clearthink join your discussion is that it is amazingly easy to diplomatically remain silent. Everyone knows his act by now. Someone mentioned a "jester" already. | |
| A civil discussion about the state of Audio Research With ARC going to autobias, the tube matching issues will only be a problem for the existing user base. Everyone hears differently and prefers what they prefer. With this caveat, the kt150 has a superior sound signature to the 6550, kt88, kt90 and... | |
| A civil discussion about the state of Audio Research Thread drift from my own post but; I ended up buying from Tyler and Chelsea of TCtubes. This is what Tyler had to say about the KT150;I avoid most QC issues by paying extra for tubes tested and matched by New Sensor. This costs me more on the fron... | |
| A civil discussion about the state of Audio Research I wish to apologize-and do so humbly-to the excellent mods for using the "C"-word (censorship) as it was totally uncalled for. I am often surprised by the threads that remain unfettered on this Board-the mods have proven their tolerance and restra... | |
| A brief review of 15 high-end speakers on home demo including B&W, Boenicke, Magico,Wilson Thank you for elevating the level of "average sophistication and written-word intelligence" on this Board, granted that such is not hard to achieve. Fantastic read. Second to Prof, you describe the hard-to-describe very well and that was a fantast... | |
| How thick should the front baffle of speakers be? There used to be a loudspeaker manufacturer named Hales that featured ultra-thick front baffles-I believe of birch ply. They were reviewed multiple times by Stereophile. As with any loudspeaker, they still had strong points and weak, and the compa... | |
| Contemplating DEVORE SPEAKERS (and others)....LONG audition report of many speakers Prof, fwiw, I never thought my O/93's lacked sparkle on top but as I wrote in the Misc section, removing an area rug in my listening room made the sound very saturated with a shelved up high end just bordering on excessive. The O/96's and O/93's t... | |
| Area rug-my dilemna My O/93's are sitting au natural which means on their stock small wooden "nubbies" that John Devore's cabinet maker glues to the bottom. When a lot of positive press was coming out about IsoAcoustics Gaia footers, I emailed John asking what he tho... | |
| Area rug-my dilemna @oregonpapa thank you sir. The plinth on the Garrard was made by Russell Collinson of Layers of Beauty in the UK. I can not express in words how grateful I am for Russ's work. I asked him to go all-out and he did. In fact, he made a video about th... | |
| Area rug-my dilemna Thanks to all who have responded. Yes, after posting the thread I figured it was about time to post some photos of my system. Funny thing-at the same time that I was listening and before kicking over the can of seltzer, I was reading my new issue ... | |
| TT on Symposium Super Segue - slate or maple underneath? @bdp24 the Symposium Foundation, unlike the Symposium Osiris does not incorporate rollerblocks. I should know as I have an Osiris Ultimate for my main component rack (ARC Ref 6 preamp and Manley Steelhead) and two Foundations on either side for my... | |
| New efficient speakers - best way to keep noise floor down? Agree with Chakster. There are too many variables. I have Devore O93's and tube gear every step of the way to the loudspeakers and I used to have a hum problem with my VPI table due to a grounding issue. My other deck, a hot-rodded TD124 with a Re... | |
| What is trully important? Spelling. |