truckfighters;224488 Wrote: > hi there, > > as some might remember, my first thread about good transporter MODS > turned out into something nobody wanted. > >
I'm having a bad case of deja vu here. truckfighters;224488 Wrote: > > the earlier mentioned tube stage mod for transporter is available now > so I am pretty much wondering if anybody living in the us will be able > to hear it / buy it soon and might post some findings. since I live in > germany, I would be quite happy to hear some reviews before I send my > transporter to the US for having it modded by modwright. > I think it's great you're taking a cautious approach before sending your TP anywhere. You might find that you might get more improvement if you spent your hard-earned money in other areas. e.g. room, loudspeakers, room correction and if they are all sorted, amplification. The Audio Critic guys have made my blood boil on so many occasions. But the more I learn, the more I head *toward* their way of thinking. I can see you don't lean that way, so I'm not going to criticise. But I will share my own thoughts, and maybe it will help. :-) For example, I wondered at one time why the pro audio industry likes active loudspeakers. Was it for the convenience of amp and speaker in the same package? Wrong. Active amplification is normally bi-amped or tri-amped. That means you have line-level or digital cross-overs which work better than one amp trying to drive a complex, difficult load (classic hi-fi loudspeaker with crossovers). Why spend $100k on a system designed on flawed principles? Isn't it best to get the architecture right first? I wondered why the pro-audio wasn't afraid to use correction like room correction or equalisation (once they have optimised the listening space as much as possible). Was it because they were lazy and didn't have equipment with "tonal accuracy" like hi-end gear? Wrong. It's because a flat frequency response is one of the totally necessary ingredients of accurate reproduction! A lot of what we do in "high-end" doesn't make sense. I decided to take a step back and re-evaluate the big picture. I am still doing my research, which is why I have spent no significant money on my bad hi-fi habit lately. Darren -- darrenyeats SB3 -> Sony DAS-703ES DAC -> Krell KAV-300i -> PMC AB-1 (home-made room treatments and supports) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38106 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
