wspohn
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| I am Looking for That Elusive 3 Dimensional Room Filling Soundstage Without a perfect replica of the performance space, - i.e. a lot of careful sound treatment in your listening room, you probably won't get close to a 3D experience using two speakers.If you must have more than what you are getting, either invest i... | |
| Need Help! My Class A Amp Is Running Very Hot I have four Class A amps. I run two of them bridged in one system and each one is over 100 pounds of radiating fury. That system is not one I listen to frequently during a hot summer - they would drive you out of the room in a bit of time. Great... | |
| Quarantine/Vetting by Admin prior to allowing "Company Is Dead" Threads to go live Not stereo, but in a similar hobby where there are many small companies producing high end product, I watched a similar thing - someone posted that they couldn't get hold of the company and that it must have crashed.Turns out that the owner had ju... | |
| 30 Watts of class A power: What Speakers are you using and suggesting? I also use a CJ Premier 11a driving Wilsons (in my case Maxx 2 - which had a lot of input in the design of your speakers which are sort of half sized Maxes). They will drive you out of the room before the amp clips.Suggest that you keep that amp a... | |
| Separate DAC or continue using the Oppo UDP-205 Sonos is a handy house distribution utility, but as others have said, they don't have a top notch DAC on board. I use stand alone DACs with unprocessed digital input from the Sonos for better sound.Having said that, the Oppo has a very good rep a... | |
| SOTA Cosmos and other models - lean sounding? I use a Cosmos in my second system. I would not characterize it as being lean. | |
| Tube life I did a lot of auditioning of both low level tubes and power tubes in preamp, power amp and phono stage, and found that there was no reliable general rule - some brands sounded better in one use and another in a different use. It is cheap to try ... | |
| Recommendations for a new integrated amp for Vandersteen 3a speakers I like just about everything David Belles has built (I believe he still hand assembles himself on at least some models). I used to use a Belles A (think he made less than 200 of those).I would think that 100W would be fine to run your Vandies.(87... | |
| Good CDTransport (player) without DAC? Anyone know anything about Emotiva ERC-4? Yup - use one in my main system when I want to audition a CD to see if I want to add it to my library. But as was said earlier in this thread, ripping to a full fidelity music file and playing from a se... | |
| A moderate priced dac I went through this awhile ago. Bought a Hegel HD12 which bettered anything else I could find at the price point ($1400, IIRC).Another one you don't see much press on is the Monarchy NM24 preamp/DAC. Look up Dick Olsher's review in TAS a few years... | |
| High value, giant killer speakers? Vandersteens - all of them. I honestly prefer the 2s to the 3s, even though the 3s are more accurate, and the 2s with a pair of the subs over the 5s, for the same reason. 2s are a bargain classic, but I like the later larger models which have ... | |
| Why HiFi manufacturers don't make active crossovers anymore? The best crossover is a high grade capacitor to roll off the bass going into the mid/high.One of my systems uses a pair of monoblocs to feed the mid and highs, and a separate set of monoblocs to feed the bass, with what is basically a fancy gain c... | |
| can someone answer me this..... I went through the tube rolling phase with my CJ Premier 11a and 14 in my main system and was able to arrive at considerably better sound by doing that. I suggest that you make sure you have no polarity issues and then post your query on a tube b... | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr Love the Quad ESL 57s, but own original Martin Logan CLS - they need care in set up and good stands to get them up off the floor but offer a bigger share of magic than any of their other models I have listened to (haven't heard the CLX bit would l... | |
| Has anyone finally decided to sell their Turntable and Vinyl collection? A friend who has a vinyl set up has been eliminating albums that don't sound better than digital but keeping the ones that do. Not a bad rationale |