lloydc
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| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused In my admittedly limited experience, I haven’t run across any active powered speakers with internal tube amplifiers; it would seem to make little sense to create such things. I don’t think I would enjoy the OP’s system as much as he seems to... | |
| Do speaker cables really make a difference ? @ebm two exclamation points? This loquaciousness is getting out if hand. | |
| Recommend a good tube power amp in the 100 wpc range for under $4k You don’t need or want such complexity. A good c. 100 wpc tube amp will be fine; good tube amps (e.g. Quicksilver, Rogue, Mac) can play bass very well, and the superb ones (e.g., VAC, Rogers, VTL) play bass extremely well . Better to get a subwo... | |
| Dust Settled Consensus- is the Benchmark AHB2 an Audiophile Amplifier? "consensus" and "audiophile" in the same sentence/paragraph always makes me lol | |
| kt88 vs kt150 Thanks for the insights! Guess I’ll have to experiment. | |
| what kind of power conditioner for front end? Perhaps i should have noted that I can not install a 20 amp line, which eliminates many of the most recommendable power conditioners. | |
| Roger Waters and Graham Nash on The Band. @bdp24: Oh, come on. You went to their show. No one could hear the Beatles in concert, thanks to all the screaming girls. It's why they quit playing live. | |
| The science of why we like — and dislike — certain music This is why 12-tone, bebop and modern jazz are failed experiments which have only tiny audiences. | |
| what kind of power conditioner for front end? Thanks for the suggestions! | |
| Atma-Sphere Class D… Amazing I’m curious why the Atmasphere Cl D amps are so low powered, compared to many others. Most D’s seem to claim fairly high power. I guess the switching power supplies are not so constrained by size and weight limitations. I had a D-Sonic, based o... | |
| Recommendations for the best headphones with equalization after severe acoustic injury I find headphones to be very isolating, and don’t like them at all. If you want music listening yo be a social event, hearing aids is the only way to go. they might help in the car too. btw, the Lyric is very expensive, but they are still analo... | |
| Recommendations for the best headphones with equalization after severe acoustic injury your hearing loss is in the range where speech differentiation occurs, and mist of the midrange and low treble, so if you don’t have a pair yet, you will. The best ones cost around $6k per pair, last time I checked. My hearing aids have 4 eq cu... | |
| Class D Amplification Announcement If any Class D amp is “good enough” for you, you’re lucky. Not being able to hear the differences will save you lots of money. Unless you buy an Aavik. | |
| What I really hate about some music Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia and Lou Reed were terrible at singing, but it didn’t stop them from singing some great songs. | |
| New Dedicated Line - Almost No improvement Be aware that large isolation transformers hum. I got rid of mine for that reason alone - could not keep it in the listening room. I understand that they may not be so objectionable if based on a toroid, but that those have other limitations. |