Paul McGowan wrote a while back ….. I am heading out this morning to visit a reviewer who agreed to listen to the BHK monoblock amplifiers. It’s exciting and I like to be there when reviewers have a chance to listen; there are always questions best asked and answered in real time. And no, I […]
Month: March 2020
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Paul McGowan: Yesterday I promised you an interesting thought challenge that has to do with getting music to sound live in your room – something we mostly all agree our industry and our equipment falls quite short of being able to do. First, imagine yourself sitting in the center row of an auditorium. There on […]
Winter is here in the Northern Hemisphere, so things are changing both outside and in. Last week I posted a thread because I cleaned my current CD player for the first time using an old Milty CD Lens Cleaner that I found when I rearranged my CD rack. I thought, and still think, that perhaps […]
Paul McGowan writes: It was an active bass correction device that made sense – because instead of correcting the output of the speakers for bass problems in the room – it fixed the room itself and left the main speakers alone. Not sure whatever happend to it but it mirrors an idea I’ve had for […]
Paul McGowan: There was a time when we could accurately say that most all digital was inferior to most all analog – the CD vs. vinyl debate. As I pointed out the fact we can master a digital recording into vinyl and have it sound like analog suggests that’s no longer the case. In fact […]
Paul McGowan writes: My suggestion that it probably doesn’t make sense to hold loudspeaker designers to a flat spec certainly generated a few comments and one poster asked me not to fuel the fires of this “movement” because there’s already enough chaos in sound reproduction as it is – let’s not add more in the […]
Barring another financial disaster, I’m sorted. My flea power and horn fetish is over, as is my stupidly large floorstander period. Bob ICHM laughed the other week and said all the mad speakers I’ve had, then come back full circle to standmounts with conventional drivers! I have the Focals as my everyday speakers, and […]
Paul McGowan writes: Recently I posted about the controlled demo and several of you seemed upset that I would even think about suggesting my musical choices might show off our equipment better than yours. I understand the sentiment but I only half agree. Let me give you a bit of background. Years ago when […]
My system is left on most of the time and sometimes on standby. I noticed that when I first start to listen the sound is a bit bright. All of my IC’s are balanced and single ended Silver Streaks, the components are Krell. It seems to take almost a half hour before the system seems […]
Paul McGowan: One of my readers commented that “it sure is easier to just put a record on the turntable and play it” in response to trying to understand the complexity of sending music out of a computer. Well, sure it is – just as it’s even easier to put a CD into a CD […]
The thread starts: I’m sure many others have been through this phase. I did, quite a few years ago. The issue at Rab Towers is quite simple. I always separate funds for fun, from funds for necessity. It hasn’t been a wonderful few years in terms of business, so the ‘fun fund’ is quite depleted. […]