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    Advice for Beginners - consider this test from an audio club

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    43 minutes ago, kink56 said:

    I notice that on this forum imaging and soundstage "spatial presentation" is seldom near the top of the priority list, and often dead last.   It would make sense as this is not the priority of heritage Klipsch speakers either and almost any monitor speaker on stands can beat Klipsch in that respect, even $300 ones. 

    While this is true, I find that the imaging and soundstage from my heritage Klipsch speakers is still pretty good.  It seems that the Heresy II are the best in this respect.  Maybe because their more compact size time aligns the drivers better?  

    Advice for Beginners - consider this test from an audio club

    in General Klipsch Info

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    5 hours ago, Deang said:

    To be fair, the amp was a gift from his wife, for his power hungry Vandersteens. Man, that must have sounded good. Too bad he didn’t let the cables break in more.  

    Yes.  He probably gave her a list of the must have features he and every beginner audiophile require, and there is no other amplifier with that feature set.  So McIntosh it was.  I’m pretty sure that my wife loves me, but not that much.  Let’s hope all the beginners out there have thoughtful and generous wives as well.  Otherwise, no crucial mono switch, metres and balance knob for them.  Oh well, what to do?  At least every amp sounds the same and they won’t miss out on audio quality...

    Advice for Beginners - consider this test from an audio club

    in General Klipsch Info

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    Pretty much any amp, including some truly crappy ones, make the cut as set by Clark.  ODS123 has much higher criteria.  He has a much more refined inability to hear differences between amps.  

     

    Here are his criteria based upon his posts, since all he seems able to do is refer to Clark’s article, even though Clark’s criteria for the test are looser than what ODS123 finds acceptable.

     

    1.  Any great amplifier must have a balance control.  An accurately calibrated dual volume pot is not enough.  Perhaps two seperate volume controls and a balance control together would be best?  ODS123, any thoughts on that?

     

    2.  An amplifier must have a mono switch so that crappy early stereo recordings can be converted to mono.  This is deal breaker and, unfortuneately, only McIntosh provides this critical feature that is so highly sought after by audiophiles the world over.  This is especially true for beginner audiophiles, many of whom are upset that this important feature is not provided by lesser manufacturers than McIntosh.

     

    3.  A amplifier must have wattage metres.  This is very important.  Without this critical feature, an audiophile who is wearing earplugs during his testing by Clark might not notice that his expensive high quality MDF speakers are being overdriven to the point of destruction.  When earplugs aren’t being worn, it is still amusing to watch the metres barely move because your excellent, sensitive speakers use less than 1 of the 200 watts available.

     

    Only an amplifier of the highest quality will provide these must have features (albeit not audio quality since a crappy quality $100 receiver sounds the same).  

     

    Conclusion:  Begginers, go out and buy a $6000 McIntosh receiver.  No other amplifier provides the features required by a budding audiophile.

     

    Thanks for the sage advice ODS123.  Beginner audiophiles of the world rejoice!  Finally, some advice you can actually use.  Oh, also, spend most of your money on speakers.  A good budget for beginners is around $6000 for the amp and, well, more than that for your speakers since you are supposed to spend most of your budget on your speakers, right?

    Advice for Beginners - consider this test from an audio club

    in General Klipsch Info

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    ODS123:  What is a “modern amplifier designed to be linear”?  In your words, not Clark’s words, and with the specs required by your Objectivist stance.  Clark’s criteria include amplifiers that you have rejected, and slagged, in this thread, so referring to the Clark test link doesn’t cut it as a reply.  Beginners everywhere, and ignorant somewhat more experienced folks like myself, await your reply with baited breath.  

     

    I can’t believe you forgot your Cornys’ birthday by the way.  Unforgivable.  Hey!  What’s that dog doing back there behind the Cornwalls?

     

    Advice for Beginners - consider this test from an audio club

    in General Klipsch Info

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    ODS123:  I was worried when you didn’t report in on your Cornwalls yesterday.  I feared for the worst.  Perhaps an errant candlestick fell off a nearby table and chipped a chunk of the veneer covered fibreboard off a corner, or maybe one of your dogs had a bad day and made an unnoticed pee on the back right corner of one of the cabinets, causing the particleboard to swell and the veneer to delaminate.  Thank God all is well.  

    Happy belated birthday Cornies!  I’m sorry that your owner missed it, but he was busy dreaming up an insidious plan to mislead newbies with vague, unsubstantiated, and unsupported claims that all amps sound the same.  It’s not his fault though.  Some guy called Clark made a really dumb test with too many questions and your owner got confused by it and went on a rampage.  If I was your owner, I would have bought you a nice SET amp for your birthday, so you could sing in your best voice.

    Advice for Beginners - consider this test from an audio club

    in General Klipsch Info

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    31 minutes ago, ODS123 said:

    Tiz..  From Richard Clark's website.  There's a great deal of Q&A from RC to critics such as yourself.  I suggest you go to the website and read for yourself before further hectoring me.

    I went to web sight and read what was there.  That’s not what I asked you.  Clark’s criteria include amplifiers that are not included in YOUR criteria.  So what are your criteria?  Specifications etc.  Once again, define “a modern amplifier engineered to be linear”. You are the one giving advice, and although you refer to it repeatedly, your advice doesn’t correspond to the Clark test criteria.  Pointing to the test is not answering the question posed to you.  Again.

    Advice for Beginners - consider this test from an audio club

    in General Klipsch Info

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    2 hours ago, glens said:

    That's only because you sold them amps that only sound good on horns.

     

    Had they demo'd them on regular speakers you'd not made sales.

    Horns sound better than FR speakers, but the amps I sold in the last batch sound good on any sensitive speaker.  Not just horns.  They read the ad and knew the output wattage of all amps for sale.  None of them owned horns, but all of them had speakers of 95 DB/W/M and up.  I demoed on La Scala II and on Heresy II.  I always offer a full refund if people don’t like the amps once they put them in their system at home.  They all said that they liked the amps that I sold them and all of them kept them.  Months later, they are looking to get the horn speaker experience in their own homes.

    Advice for Beginners - consider this test from an audio club

    in General Klipsch Info

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    5 hours ago, Tizman said:

    Clark sets the bar pretty low.  You set it much higher, and are willing to dismiss certain topologies outright without having heard them.  Quantify your choices and advice to beginners as an Objectivist.  Clark’s criteria include amplifiers that you don’t include.

    I will use the same trolling technique used by IDS123.  What is your reply ODS123?  

     

    5 hours ago, Tizman said:

    So, ODS123, what qualifies as “a modern amp that is engineered to be linear”?  At what point does an amp’s non-linear behaviour disqualify it from being “a modern amp that is engineered to be linear”, and how do you quantify this objectively?

    What is your answer ODS123?  Do you have one, or are you just a boring troll?

    Advice for Beginners - consider this test from an audio club

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    1 hour ago, ClaudeJ1 said:

    My own A/B tests from the same Blue Ray that had both says that with my own EARS, I can't tell the diffence, so my own hearing tells me I agree with Tom Holman AND Mark Waldrep on this SINGULAR issue of 96 vs. 192 sampling on  Audibility, there is NONE, and it's a waste of good storage space, so you can fit more songs on that piece of plastic.

    There is too much attention paid to different DACs and data rates, and not enough on the quality of the source’s output stage.  There is an amp at the output of most line level source components, including DACs, CD players, etc..  This amplifier varies in quality.  Some are bad and some are good.

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