wspohn
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| Most rooms don’t need acoustical treatment. Not snake oil, but many people buy stuff that they may not need, blind and expect miracles.The only way to really assess a listening room is to have someone with the gear and software they need come and test the room, preferably with all the furni... | |
| Apogee Scintilla Power If you ever get a chance to audition the Classe DR3 VHC I mentioned earlier in the thread, do so (hard to find as less than 200 made). The pair I have were driving the heck out of Scintillas when I bought the amps.Run in stereo they put out 40 wat... | |
| If your were to assemble a vintage system ? Pretty easy (depending on what you mean by vintage).Pair of Spics TC50s driven by a NAD 3020 or Audiolab 8000A.Source could be an old Thorens TD-124 or a Rega RP1 or RP4. | |
| If you don't have a wide sweet spot, are you really an audiophile? No big deal. I carefully choose my seats for the symphony so I am in the sweet spot for the particular room, and I choose a optimal seating position in my listening room. I don't walk around when listening so what does it matter how wide the swe... | |
| CD or Streaming... am I missing out? From the point of view of cost, if you happen to own thousands of CDs and you don't mind ripping them to a server, all it costs you is time (I did mine while watching TV in the evenings) rather than fees for a music service (I ripped well over 400... | |
| Best cost no object tube phono I don't think that you want a tube phono stage for great sound. In fact I run an amplification set up that is entirely tubes, but use a solid state phono stage simply because it is better than any tube phono stage I have heard. (my tube phono sta... | |
| Open Letter To REL, SVS, Hsu, etc., et al I think the original question is a valid one, but including various manufacturer names in the thread title without checking whether they provided what was being referenced or not was an error. Failing to do a bit of homework doesn't detract from t... | |
| Acoustic treatment question: do you agree with Dennis Foley that $46k to $65k is required? It certainly doesn't have to cost that much to treat a room.I was lucky enough to have a friend whose profession is building home theatre spaces, and he owns many thousands of dollars worth of audio instrumentation and software and he was kind eno... | |
| Audio Lessons Learned - post your best advice for the newer members! 1 - if you don't know what music sounds like in person, before you start on your system, attend some live music performances - as many as necessary to embed the idea of what it sounds like.2 - accept that it is almost impossible to exactly replica... | |
| what are some of best tonearms you own or experience with. I also vote for the SME V - I use them on both of my tables. The Grahams are also excellent, and at the lower end some of the Regas give very good value .I have played around with things like the Mission Mechanic (good luck finding one) which wer... | |
| Warm, rich but detailed SS preamp (made you give up tubes) The only solid state preamp I've owned that gave most of what tube preamps offer was a Classe DR-7, but they were rare (100 and something made) and would be hard to find.One was for sale a couple of years ago and I include the URL as the descripti... | |
| will changing to solid-state make the bass in my wilson sophias better at low volume? You are battling against a speaker efficiency of 87 dB vs 92 dB on larger Wilsons, so you need a higher output tube amp to tame the Sophias.I use a 70 wpc tube amp on the more efficient models with no loss of bass control compared to a 300 wpc sol... | |
| Some DACs I am Considering-Any thoughts? I have been quite pleased with the Moon 280D I bought recently. | |
| Does it annoy you when companies don't show the internals of electronics ? Hmm - potted circuits that you can't see into must drive the OP crazy. Wonder if he demanded that the car dealer drop the oil pan for a look-see before he'd buy a car, or asked his spouse to submit whole body X-rays before agreeing to take them on... | |
| Curl or Pass I like both, but IMHO neither attains the level of Curl's older Vendetta design (I don't believe that the parts are available to replicate those, although a variant was used in the CTC Blowtorch preamp. |