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| Madman! Digital vs Vinyl Fuzztone is correct. Bill Evans’ Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961 sounds better on CD than vinyl, so does Duke Jordan’s JORDU. It would be incorrect to conclude based on this small sample size that CD sounds better than vinyl. It just is ... | |
| Class A or Class D solid-state amplifiers (modern designs) @bigkidz My previous post answers your question. Why do you want Ralph to advertise for other people? Would you go to GM and ask them who else makes good trucks? | |
| Class A or Class D solid-state amplifiers (modern designs) FYI…Benchmark is not a class D amp. It’s a whole different animal. | |
| Amir and Blind Testing @chayro You just say aloud something that a lot of us have known for a long time but couldn’t articulate as well as you did. It takes me months to assess a new piece of hardware and I usually won’t know until I remove it and see if I missed it. ... | |
| Tekton Design - New IRL Technology - Lifelike, Real, Immersive Thanks @willrich47, you just gave us a peek at the distant future. As long as my generation is still around, they will cling to their vinyls, turntables, class A amps, two channel systems and $500k floor standing speakers. I am grateful they let f... | |
| Tekton Design - New IRL Technology - Lifelike, Real, Immersive @willrich47 How many channels were at play? Was it multi channel or stereo? Thanks for the report. | |
| Class A or Class D solid-state amplifiers (modern designs) @goheelz Specifically, we are referring to amps like the Merrill Audio Element 116 Merrill Audio - Element 116 Power Amplifier Monoblocks the AGD Audio Gran Vivace AGD Gran Vivace Monoblock · AGD Productions the Nuprime Evolution One The Nu... | |
| Stay grounded Yep. Some well grounded people believe that these apparatus are effective only if there is a deficiency in the system that needs to be addressed. We are probably lucky 😀 | |
| Stay grounded My experience was somewhat different. I had the Synergistic Research Active Ground Block SE in my system with all the necessary and recommended ground leads for a few months. When I took it out, I didn’t notice any difference so I sold it. Their P... | |
| Intriguing inquiry, are floor-stand speakers always better than active speakers? Good discussion folks. I like a thread that makes me smarter by providing me with more information than I started with. Thanks. | |
| Intriguing inquiry, are floor-stand speakers always better than active speakers? @ghdprentice Keep in mind, the amps in these good and some of them (KII3) great active speakers are NOT low cost class D amps. These amps are actually quite good. They are designed an optimized for one specific driver and no cable between the am... | |
| Frequency Response @erik_squires Nice article. It’s well written and well executed I appreciate your honesty when you said: ”Lets be honest, these are not typical results. This happens to be the combination of my speakers, room, listening location and, very im... | |
| Intriguing inquiry, are floor-stand speakers always better than active speakers? @audioman58 I would say 100% of the time a QUALITY separate amplifier is of much higher quality than a LOW COST class D amp in an active speaker. | |
| Intriguing inquiry, are floor-stand speakers always better than active speakers? @holmz Didn’t quite get the last point, sorry. Frequency response is not the whole story, I hope you would agree. Also, because THIS floor stander has a better frequency response than THAT floor stander is not a reason to judge an entire design ... | |
| Frequency Response @polkalover Yes you should use at least one sub. Your speakers bass response depends a lot on placement and on the room itself. The placement requirements for your mains to provide good images and tonality are different from the requirements to ... |