pharaoh
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| Totem Mani-2 vs Devialet Phantoms Gold Devialet phantom gold go subsonic. They do sound excellent. bass is tight, from a sealed enclosure. Treble from a titanium dome is very nice. Use clean power supply for better results. PS Audio Power Regenerator recommended. Using high quality c... | |
| Recommendations for against the wall high efficiency speakers Dipoles against the wall? Sanders 10e with 2 magtec amps. Includes active crossover and dsp for bass down to 20hz. No subwoofer needed. Not so efficient, but the amps are very efficient. Some acoustic treatment advisable to get best sound. Dec... | |
| "But it sounds better at night...." Aside from solar radiation, quite real, there is industrial noise on the power lines during working hours. Neighbourhood activity also contributes. Soon after about 10pm when most people have turned off their lights, computers, microwave ovens etc... | |
| What are your favorite songs or albums for illustrating a deep soundstage? Female voice: Madonna singing Vogue. Sound comes from behind and left of seating position and goes to right and behind right speaker at the beginning. At the end, "Vogue" repeats 4 times, in front of you, closer, to the left and right of you, then... | |
| If someone handed you this system, what would you change? As ghdprentice said, room treatment. The room is the biggest part of the sound. Secondly, get hold of a power regenerator. NOT a conditioner. This will take care of any money burning a hole in your pocket, and will make every item you have already... | |
| Solid core OFC vs stranded OCC copper I find stranded cables smear the time domain and never provide the attack of a single solid core wire. This applies to both interconnects amd speaker wire. OCC silver has proved the most lifelike and detailed for interconnects. I tried differe... | |
| Interesting situation! Do we need this.... I have discovered that most speakers can sound good listening casually, when attached to good gear in the right space. But when critical listening happens in a quiet space little things like timbre, soundstage, separation, thee dimensional imaging... |