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Digital love
I have moved to a fully computer based set up as a source. No transport and none of those shiny disks any more.

The system has an open, huge soundstage, with very clean, tight bass that dives deep into two figure Hz.

The sound is very powerful and dynamic. Extremely detailed, but still warm, musical and believable and easy to listen to. With the right recording a reach out and touch holographic image and soundstage is possible.

I have been through quite a lot of equipment. I am and was a huge Audio Research fan for years, and I used their tube monos/preamps with great happiness.

I have pretty much always had planar speakers until recently. So I needed powerful amps to drive Magnepan2.6R/3.6R and Apogee Diva/Duetta sig etc.

I have moved to high sensitivity speakers in the form of the Avantgarde Trios now. This has enabled a move to very low powered SET amplifiers which has been great fun.

I have been searching for equipment that keeps the music free of colour and true to the recording. I believe you choose your source for its sound. The rest of the equipment should let the source do its magic as much as possible and get out of the way of the music.

Happy listening
Chadeffect  (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)

01-09-08
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02-02-11   Hi charles1dad, thank you for your post and kind words. t ...   Chadeffect

02-02-11   ""delicate finesse" that's a good descriptio ...   Mapman

02-02-11   Hi mapman i spent many years with avantgarde horn speakers a ...   Jasonparmenter

02-02-11   The other way i look at it is that the best amp for the high ...   Mapman

02-02-11   Chad, i'm curious what is your assessment of the system you ...   Mapman

02-02-11   for my own personal speakers the parmenter fat boy horns i ...   Jasonparmenter

02-02-11   Mapman, the comparison between the best sound i managed to ...   Chadeffect

02-02-11: Mapman
Apogees/planars and horns are two totally different beasts in most every way, efficiency being just one, dynamics another.

No surprise how different the best matching amps for each are as well as a result.

Mapman  (Reviews | Threads | Answers | This Thread)


02-02-11   Based on my own past experiences with various systems over t ...   Charles1dad

02-02-11   Hi chadeffekt, i agree re the comparison of planars to horn ...   Duomike

02-03-11   Hi duomike, i am just dusting the sand off my hands. i fina ...   Chadeffect

02-03-11   Hi chadeffect, glad you like the sand tweak. not a huge dif ...   Duomike

02-04-11   Hi duomike, loving the sand. subtle but good. it just tigh ...   Chadeffect

02-04-11   I was lucky that v-caps offered me to put the caps on the ca ...   Duomike

03-24-11   Hello chad i have a recommendation for a solid state amplifi ...   Jasonparmenter

03-24-11   Hi jason, this looks promising. i cannot see anyone to conta ...   Chadeffect

03-25-11   Hi chad, since you have moved to a highly resolving speake ...   Muralman1

09-12-11   System edited: the arrival of the weiss medea plus. having m ...   Chadeffect

09-13-11   Hi chadeffect, have you tried modding your trios further li ...   Duomike

09-13-11   Hi duomike, i have been a traitor by working on my ht syste ...   Chadeffect

09-13-11   External xover boxes are a good idea. just by removing all i ...   Duomike

09-14-11   Hi duomike, yes i have found quite a few ways to improve th ...   Chadeffect

11-20-11   Gracious, sometimes all you can say is wow!. what a sweet sy ...   Glenfihi

11-24-11   Hi glenfihi, thank you. i see you have a reel to reel. doe ...   Chadeffect

04-02-12   Chad, hope your very fine system is going strong. held back ...   Glenfihi

05-24-12   Hey chad, been thinking of getting an a-08s to try. i have ...   Aball

05-26-12   Hi arthur, i love the a08s. this one has had a few simple ...   Chadeffect

05-26-12   "music just oozes out" this is the pinnacle achiev ...   Charles1dad

05-27-12   Hi charlesdad1, i think you are right. but it's hard to kno ...   Chadeffect

05-27-12   Chad, the decreased focus on the "hifi/audiophile" ...   Charles1dad

05-27-12   I read srajan ebaen`s report on the sit-1 monoblocks, he cer ...   Charles1dad

05-27-12   Charlesdad1, i am with you. i tried quite a few ss amps ov ...   Chadeffect

05-28-12   Well after hearing all kinds of solid-state amps, my mcintos ...   Aball

05-29-12   Hi aball, thanks for your post. i must give the mac a list ...   Chadeffect

05-25-12   Hello chad, i love your system...especially the trios ;-) i ...   Bmwmcab

05-30-12   Hi bmwmcab, the 1st tweak is get rid of the wife so you can ...   Chadeffect

05-31-12   Chad, if you use the preset target curves that tact provide ...   Bmwmcab

05-31-12   Bmwmcab, "i have had owned tubed equipment and with the ...   Chadeffect

06-01-12   The provided target curves from the tact 2.2xp start to drop ...   Bmwmcab

06-03-12   Bmwmcab, i had the lyndorf version & spent time with its co ...   Chadeffect

06-03-12   Chad, i totally agree with having a simple system. i rememb ...   Bmwmcab

12-27-12   Chad, is there a hum or buz with the combine of yama 08s an ...   Houstonreef

12-28-12   Houstonreef, which duo do you have? i don't get any real a ...   Chadeffect

12-28-12   Chadeffect, have you demoed/considered any other subs for yo ...   Knghifi

12-28-12   Knghifi, funny you should ask as i am about to build a dual ...   Chadeffect

12-28-12   Chad, do you have any picture of the cap mod you did?   Houstonreef

12-28-12   Chad, i have regular duo with 225 sub. do you remember the ...   Houstonreef

12-28-12   Chadeffect, i always find integration between the horn and ...   Knghifi

12-29-12   Houstonreef, i cannot remember off the top of my head the v ...   Chadeffect

12-29-12   Knghifi, i know the sub integration problem well after year ...   Chadeffect

12-30-12   Chadeffect, this sounds like a very interesting project. the ...   Duomike

12-30-12   Hi duomike, i fancy trying 15inch subs. i don't have a big ...   Chadeffect

12-30-12   Hi chadeffect, unfortunately i'm not able to give you any a ...   Duomike

12-31-12   Hi duomike, what didn't you like about the ag bass horns?   Chadeffect

01-01-13   Hi chadeffect, they sounded totally disintegrated with the ...   Duomike

01-02-13   Hi duomike, sounds like a case for some room correction! i ...   Chadeffect

01-02-13   Hi chadeffect, i think the main problem with my friends bas ...   Duomike

01-03-13   Hi duomike, "i think to build a sub with dual 15" ...   Chadeffect

01-03-13   Hi chadeffect, any idea what kind of enclosure to build ?   Duomike

01-05-13   Hi duomike, well the 15 inch driver i was hoping to use is ...   Chadeffect

01-06-13   Hi chadeffect, believe it will be important that whatever e ...   Duomike

01-06-13   Duomike, the guys who will build the enclosure are very fin ...   Chadeffect

01-06-13   To put them under the trios is a bad idea. the tweeter needs ...   Duomike

01-07-13   Duomike, like i said the enclosure is bound to be too large ...   Chadeffect

01-07-13   Hi chad, why not look at a pair of jl audio f 212 subwoofers ...   Jasonparmenter

01-07-13   Hi jason, it has crossed my mind. but from what i understa ...   Chadeffect

01-07-13   Hi chad, the fs of the bd design drivers is only 35 hz, this ...   Jasonparmenter

01-07-13   Hi jason, this is the problem i have been facing. the high ...   Chadeffect

01-09-13   Hello chad, go with the tact w410 subs. you will love them. ...   Bmwmcab

01-10-13   Hi chad, sub bass integration is time consuming and is not ...   Jasonparmenter

01-11-13   Hi jason, i had many years with different planar speakers w ...   Chadeffect

01-25-13   Chad, when i had the 225 subs hooked up, the tact did actua ...   Bmwmcab


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