Recent content by mandd

Well you guys are no help!! Just kidding. slowGEEZR, thanks for the hypothetical offer. It sure would be nice to hear it first. invenio, I have the same concerns but... I've decided to give it a try. I really want to try tubes I'm not sure how else to do it. This will give me a chance to...

Hi all, I need a new amp (oh...darn it!!) and have a local opportunity to get a reasonable deal on a used tube integrated. It's Jolida jd1000rc with slightly upgraded tubes. This would be my first venture into the tube world and I'm a little apprehensive. Before I do this, I'd to run some...

For what it's worth... When I had Puritys (Purities?) I tried them both ways. I thought they sounded better direct from the pre-amp than with an amp (Carver tfm-45) in the path. mandd

I have the same question...but more. Dan I hope I am not crossing the line of forum decorum here. I would like to find out if anyone has *heard and compared* both of these models. Even though they use the same panels, we all know that the crossover is can make a huge difference in the way a...

Hi Sal, You shouldn't need any amp with the Purities. Any preamp signal should trigger them. Do you have a way to test your system? I don't know anything about the UMC-1, but I would try a different output on it to see if it can work. I had Purities running off of a USP-1 and they were...

I will try that. I don't think I mentioned, that the test I did for the sound degradation was with the equalizer settings all at flat. The only thing that I was looking for was if the addtional connections, cables and circuitry of equalizer messed things up. They didn't, to any discernable (by...

Thanks Roberto, Don't worry. I use the equalizer sparingly, only a db or 2 change here or there. I got it mainly to have control over the bass. It will not be in the system permanantly. But I must say, it does not seem to degrade the sound quality. We did a test where we listened with it...

Sadly, I think that Apogees (and Maggies, and Soundlabs, and Quads, and...) are not possible for several reasons. The first, and only reaon that matters, is the WAF. On a scale of 1 to 10 it was 0. I took her to listen to Maggies. She saw them and said, "Why are we listening to these--we're...

Yes, exactly!!! I don't want to look elsewhere. MLs do so much right. But slam is a weak spot. And we don't listen to much of that sort of music--we are much more likely to be listening to unaccompanied cello than head-banger stuff. But there are elements of it in a lot of music. For...

As with everyone else here, I am on a quest. I have been looking for the elusive "you are there" experience from my system. I stumbled into Martin Logans and it has taken me a big step closer. I love them. My quest is perhaps a little different from the normal quest because my wife shares...

Hi Gordon, Thanks for the thoughts. I imagine you are right on the mark with figuring the Puritys out before leaping to other things. And I have not spent the time to do that with great care. I think their setup are pretty good for a baseline starting point, but I would be very surprised if...

Robert, please do not apologize. I enjoy and appreciate your post!

Hi dmsusoke, I can only compare the Sunfires to the Puritys, but I think we can safely assume that the Theos can do anything the Purity can do, only more and better. I assume that since you have a 7401 you also have a sophisticated pre-pro that may make the Sunfires perform differently in your...

Roberto, Again, thank you for the thoughful reply. I know what you mean about the plastic man. Sometimes there are plastic pianos too, and instantly moving saxophones. Magic! Annoying! I will do some more listening this weekend. I hope you have a good one! Thanks again!

Hola Roberto. Thank you for the reply. I should clarify. The highs in the Purity are there, it is just that compared to another speaker (Sunfire CRM2 (ribbon tweeter) ), the highs were not quite as clear, and de-emphasized somewhat--as if the high freqencies were rolled off a few db. But I...