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| Plus and Minus Look through your collection. How much of your music is truly live recorded with a single stereo microphone pair and nothing else with no manipulation post recording?I would say for most people that is close to 0%. Even someone who really seeks th... | |
| suggestion for a SS class AB amp that sounds like a class A ... if such a thing exists The Benchmark will be by far and away the least class A-sounding, so delete immediately from your list.That's an interesting comment, since Class-A "sound" is far more influenced by design goals. A low feedback Class-A will have much different dis... | |
| What speaker – under $10k – has the best timbre and tonal qualities? Use Magico S1 https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis98ica-magico-s1-mk1-full-rangeFor me, personally, I would not consider Maggies the best for tone and timbre, though many love them. I find I love them on some stuff, not on others, and that can ev... | |
| *WHITE PAPER* The Sound of Music - How & Why the Speaker Cable Matters Well Max showed, and continued to ignore 100+ years of settled engineering. He was joined by David from Wireworld who communicated his own brand of lack of engineering knowledge. Altogether it was as expected. Oh ... get this, the source impedance... | |
| Vinyl Fremer Wrong, I would always suggest the lowest inductance for your speaker cables assuming you don't have amp oscillation problems, and don't be skimpy on wire gauge, it is not that expensive. I would not suggest overly exotic materials.I would suggest ... | |
| Vinyl Fremer Of course it has nothing to do with those who listen to digital not being stuck in the past and the vast majority moving into streaming.In other news, shockingly, DVD sales are down too. In other shocking news, horse drawn buggy sales vastly excee... | |
| REVEL performa3 f208 or TEKTON Moab Yup ... okay.Best used deal I ever got (besides my Khorns) were the Thiel CS 2.3. I think the Thiel would slaughter the Revel. That was a properly engineered speaker, not a mass produced Harmon product. I hate those mass produced Toyota's and... | |
| Audiophile demographics? Most of those drivers are a couple bucks bought once.Fashion and cosmetics are regular ongoing purchases. Way way bigger. It's not even close. | |
| REVEL performa3 f208 or TEKTON Moab 2 * sqrt(14 * (1/2)^2) = 3.75" not 9"Not sure where that 9" midrange area came from, but whoever came up with that is bad at math.Used to have 90db/watt speakers being driven by a 50 watt Sugden with a lot of headroom. Those speakers had dual-8" w... | |
| Why are digital streaming equipment manufacturers refusing to answer me? The Supra was designed by Toyota, using a bevy of BMW parts from the Z4, and ASSEMBLED by Magna Steyr. This is a contract manufacturing model that probably applies at least at some level, to much of the electronics industry at some level. Even App... | |
| REVEL performa3 f208 or TEKTON Moab 98dB 2.83V@1m sensitivity, that is not 98db 1W. They offer it in 8 and 4 ohm, and you know this is going to be at 4ohm. So at best 95db, which is 6db over what Stereophile measured on the f208. As noted, Tekton has measured way below spec on their... | |
| Honest Amp Reviews: Impossible? George is that you?I think the ops "rant" is quite possibly born out of the same reaction that people with $200K+ sports cars had when they came to the realization that some "lowly" pleb, with a $50,000 Tesla Model 3 could clean my clock at the li... | |
| No protection for buyers on Audiogon Happens on Ebay all the time. As noted Paypal, and if it is something really expensive, there are escrow services. | |
| *WHITE PAPER* The Sound of Music - How & Why the Speaker Cable Matters Please come prepared to discuss the following questions, as a start.1) Why does your speaker electrical model does not match impedance curve shown.2) Why are you using an electroacoustic speaker model that is not accurate for electrical transmissi... | |
| Audiophile demographics? Using a very narrow definition of audiophile perhaps. From what I can tell, many are fixed income :-) |