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Saw the following for the first time yesterday. I think this stuff is more fun if/as one takes it seriously. It's not like I don't care about specs; but for me it's more like it matters on reflection if the amp "works" in the first place, and even th...
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Just listened to Gould’s unusual Brahms Intermezzi (See Music Board) via
the Loudspeakers for the first time. The speakers were powered by the MA-9S2s. Of
course I’ve noticed before how Gould deconstructs these pieces. Today I took
advantage o...
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It’s been a while since I visited face to face with my World-traveling
friend, Mark. He came by yesterday, and we talked and also listened to Music
via my MA-9S2s and The Loudspeakers. It was all LP playback. Mark has had his
own giant hi-fi syste...
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Romy, thanks for another nudge toward Bruckner. I was not at all aware of Schuricht before your post, and I do like what I heard of his 8th and 9th via headphones, off the computer, although I realize this is a just thumbnail version. You have said s...
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Nice monolog to kick off a Dialog. He certainly touched on a lot of important ideas, and we have certainly batted around a number of these questions at GSC. Also nice that he quoted Adorno! I recommend to all to immediately read Adorno's hypertext, "...
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Amir. for me. regardless of what I've started out to do in audio, I have been forced to compromise along the way. I am sharing my speaker/amp compromises in this thread. My "second system" is a radio (or computer) and headphones (or "desk speakers")....
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Amir, I have shared that I quite liked the (original) Audiopax amps I have heard. Whatever they claim, they do sound right to me. Although I have never played much with a de Lima amp I have played quite a bit with most of my own phono stages, pre-amp...
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Only so much can be gained from thinking about
speaker/amp matching in the abstract. At some point we have to decide what’s
most important to us, personally. I think the idea of a “comfort zone” for
given amps and speakers is objective to a po...
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At some point recently I became particularly aware of the
fact that the sound from the Loudspeakers has transformed significantly over
the five months that I’ve used them, not in the sense that the character of The
Loudspeakers has changed, ra...
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Amir, what you say and the simple way you put it is indeed a very important consideration for speaker/amp matching, and it is something that one must actually hear and cultivate in the first place. Since there is no way to emperically quantify the "r...
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Amir, where I am with my main system today is a ways from
Minimum sound. I have shared that I got to where I am now by using experience
to “leverage” the sound from my gear for targeted changes that I deem to be “improvements”,
according to my...
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Which came first, the desire for “Good Sound” or the
equipment to get Good Sound from our hi-fis? Actually, it’s a trick question,
since most of us start out with “something”, and we move on from there. And
taking it from wherever we first enc...
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Robin, I have had recurring thoughts about speaker/crossover/amp "compatibility", and I wound up on the shoals of back EMF. You pointedly mentioned BL, and, on the one hand, you are "right". At the same time, an "easier" (high BL) circuit can very qu...
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No question that there are basic electrical issues to deal with in matching amps and speakers. After our best attempts to deal with these issues on paper or in our minds, we listen. Part of dealing with reactive loads is keeping amp output impedance ...
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It’s been some time since I seriously considered hi-fi
gear in terms other than sound qualities. But I did think broadly and
specifically in terms of “current” when shopping for big amps. I have heard
some bad-sounding amps that were said to h...
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Amir, I told of my own approach to wall power in other threads. Basically, I tried to make my gear as tolerant of AC variations as I could without simply smoothing everything over. My DAC runs on battery power. I modified the power supply and changed...
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Amir, the Marantz MA 9S2s are the subject of this
thread, and I chose to keep using this amp because it was consistently acceptable
to me with different sources and driving vastly different speaker loads, including giant (Sound Lab A1)
electro...
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Rowuk got me re-thinking about how I arrived at the sound I
now get from my system. The short answer (shorter than the Long Answer…) is
that I started out trying to stay close to the sound of master tape from a nice
reel-to-reel machine. Right...
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Robin, I'm not at all certain that my new speakers are "source tolerant", because I have "taken steps" all along to "ensure" part-to-part compatibility. I have tried to "sync" my phono and CD/DAC as much as possible, and the main thing I wanted from ...
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I guess it’s time to talk about these amps in terms of The
Loudspeakers. In truth, I thought of these amps from the first time I thought
about The Loudspeakers, to the point where I “built and tested” The
Loudspeakers with these amps in my hea...
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Some years back I posted on the Musical Discussions board
about a remarkable Everest recording (X-923) of Josef Hofmann, and I mentioned then that I
thought this recording was pretty amazing, based on the Music I was easily able
to extract from it...
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Never used the old Hafler (quad) much, mostly because I had so many mono LPs at the time, and that system (if I remember correctly) worked best with hard-panned stereo. Basically, I agree with you, and whatever I wind up with will be fairly easy to u...
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Some time ago I posed two hypothetical questions: 1) How
big does a system have to be to satisfactorily present Music? 2) How big can a system get before it interferes
with the Music? These are actually two takes on a very complex question, an...
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I saw that one of the DSP processors has an option to put a pair of "rear-type" ambience speakers in front, along with the main speakers. I am probably describing it incorrectly, but this sent my mind waay back in the GSC archives, to the days of res...
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I tend to look at specs even though they might not tell much about sound. I saw that one of the DSP processors has an ambience type phase injection option for a pair of front ambience-type speakers, along with the rear ambient speakers. I am probably...
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Well, Romy, "the industry" never really settled on anything for any reason, so many versions of pretty much everything out there, although the convolution sound processing, very generally speaking, is the pro darling these days, especially in terms o...
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Gotta say, it's nice having great stereo front channels; but the way typical stereo is done ensures that the "sense of space" typically "stops behind the speakers". I messed around with big OB speakers for many years, and they made some nice room eff...
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I love the way Janowski develps this symphony, and the WDR deserve recognition and praise for their remarkable abilities. They even have nice instruments!Paul S...
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Clearly, if to retain LP or CD source and analog-fed stereo main speakers, there is the matter of backwards compatibility with any added DSP RI enhancement. From the 8 things list, it looks like current Auro is backward compatible with 5.1 surround e...
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It
sure sounds like the best in the way of ambience is a ways down another road
from the road Romy has taken, One big difference would be DSP, which is at the
very heart of the Trinnov and the Auro 3D. Another big difference is that the
optim...
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