Recent content by upbeatdownbeat

Welcome to the electrostatic world. Your room is large. Your hardwood floor construction could possibly be in need of some nice thick area rugs but if you notice this only on certain recordings it could be a bad recording. My personal experience leads me to think perhaps that your KT88 amp is...

If power cords or speaker wire makes that big a difference in the sound quality your brain perceives from the same speaker being fed by your unchanged power source then wouldn't manufacturers just raise prices and sell all this good sound themselves?

Have ML Montis which were being driven using Eastern Electric integrated KT88 amp that produces 60watts 8ohms. Was not happy with the top frequency brittle sound that had not existed with previous speakers. Suspect the Ohm drop at upper Hz was to fault. Switched to a Vincent hybrid integrated...

I think keeping the signal path as short, direct, and unprocessed as possible gets you closer to the way the music was recorded. So much of today's music has already been so processed by the electronics and producers with bad hearing that it should only be played over the radio in your car...

Thanks for the welcome. Don't have the room for those CLX's you have but would if I did. Then I would also want different pre and power.................

I'm new to the forum presently am driving ML Montis with a Vincent SV235MkII hybrid integrated that I bought used at a really good price. Was using an Eastern Electric KT88 valve amp. We hear with our ears and see with our wallet. I agree that the small incremental increases in measurable...

I built my first speakers when stereo didn't exist. Production, transmission, and reproduction was mono but still if you actively participated in music or just went to concerts you knew your brain tried to turn everything into a three dimensional world. Over many years I have owned many sound...