Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is your personal philosophy as an audiophile?

2013-12-19 Thread banned for life
1. Massive wattage with unbridled amperage. (My LR speakers can dip below 1 Ohm on the woofer side of the biamp.) 2. You cannot pay too much for a good tweeter. 3. Never underestimate a paper woofer. (SS 18W/8531G springs to mind.) As a corollary: bass response is no longer pinned to driver

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is your personal philosophy as an audiophile?

2013-12-19 Thread ralphpnj
banned for life wrote: 10. Face it: a lot of source material is REALLY crappy. First Corollary: All source material associated with anyone or anything from American Idol is absolutely 100% crap. Second Corollary: 99% of source material from any of TAS founder HP so called Super Disc Lists may

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] What is your personal philosophy as an audiophile?

2013-12-19 Thread Mnyb
About 3 cone area*linear travel is physics you don't get away from that ! so reasonable cone area ( can absolutely be more than one driver , that could be even better , more motors ) is worth something . Of course in the boxes that the acoustics of the system require :) not what's fashionable .