jasonbourne52
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| Looking for a cd player that plays nice with classical orchestra. NAD! | |
| Rush - The New Birth Control Metallica's Death Magnetic will cause sterility when played back LOUD to anyone nearby! | |
| Stop compressing our bloody music!!!!!!!!!!! One of the worst: Metallica's Death Magnetic! Dynamic range of 3db! The New York Times had a report about this CD and the widespread use of compression in modern rock. | |
| Speaker cone shape Lincoln Walsh was a pioneering expert on radar design back in the Forties! I think he may have invented the perfect speaker! | |
| Speaker cone shape Back to cones: how about the Walsh soeaker? Omnidirectional and phase coherent! I have a pair of the older Sound Cylinders and they do produce a 3-D room-filling sound field unlike the typical box speaker! Astounding is the best word to describe t... | |
| Speaker cone shape Don't forget the Quad 63 with its flat ESL panel driven concentrically by delay lines to approximate a point source. Now made in China by the IAG group! | |
| Speaker cone shape Manger makes flat diaphragm drivers that use the "bending wave" principle for phase coherence. | |
| Speaker cone shape A company named Phase Tech made speakers using FLAT woofers. In fact, the owner/designer invented the first dome tweeter! | |
| Looking for CD player A $25 DVD player + $100 DAC + $5 digital cable will give you excellent and enjoyable sound! I kid you not! Don't listen to the audio snobs who only believe that you must spend $thousands for "great" digital sound! Not true! | |
| Looking for CD player I also have three DVD players for movies that are also used as transports for a DAC (Weltion TEK Khadas). JVC, Toshiba and Sony 7000ES. All bought secondhand cheap! That's a route you can do! Just add a DAC + a Monoprice cable ($5). More choices h... | |
| Looking for CD player Why spend that much? Just get a new NAD player for around $500. IMO all CD players sound alike! I own five of them: CAL, Denon, Marantz, NAD and Sony. They were all bought secondhand and are still working reliably! They all sound fine! | |
| Anyone familiar with the Empire brand of cartridges? Thank you Bill! It's been awhile since I visited AudioKarma! Anyway I almost exclusively use mc cartridges. | |
| Anyone familiar with the Empire brand of cartridges? I have an Empire 4000 in my collection. These are all excellent mm cartridges. Now sadly forgotten along with the Empire belt-drive TTs. I have four of those! | |
| Anyone familiar with the Empire brand of cartridges? Get a bottle of Stylast and use it before playing an LP side. This will reduce diamond wear and extend life! | |
| Townshend Audio F1 Fractal Interconnects - Less is More! Max Townsend and Ted Denney, each wearing a Colt .45 on their hips stand facing each other 40 feet apart. Each advances ten paces, draws and fires ... |