Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsZephyr24069: Tony Levin is excellent. Not sure if you have seen the videos of some of Peter Gabriel's concert. Tony Levin played some great guitar in there. Do you have the Best Of Dire Str... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsglenhifi, thank you for the kind words. But you know looks can be deceiving (and being active on audio forums can also be deceiving...and the amount of money spent on audio can also be deceiving). ... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsroyalty: hahaha that is because I have not come up with the final words of thank you speech for your assistance in making that power supply :)Seriously, several items need to be updated in ... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Arnie:Thank you very much for hosting me. As before, it was a total pleasure. The system sounds great. Your room along with Mike Levine's and Winston Ma's are the three most outs... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsHI Zephyr24069, I am gonna shop for Yello's . I have several other Yello albums and like them all and hence can imagine Touch to be as good as you say. will also look for Jordan Rudess' "T... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsDes, the range of loading would be system and taste depending. What are your impression of 200 vs 50?I do not know your system. posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsT212: Correction, I have the loading set at 200 ohm, not 100 ohm as I previously said. Sorry for the mistake. posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsAnother piece of excellence is Influence album by The Art of Noise. You would think it is another non-musical audiophile crap. Nope, the music is stunningly good while providing all audio glory....... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
adventure continues!!wow, that is quite a collection, including the Persian poetry on the wall :) Three totally different speakers and extremely opposite kind of preamp and amp, I would say you are pretty adventurous :... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsMy musical tastes run the gamut (sans hip-hop and rap which are blasphemy to the word music) ....LOL. well said.I agree with you on the points you made. For me one thing is very important. ... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsItch:I have got one GT-800 (a pair of mononblocks for left and right channel). Each side has two chasis (one for am, one for power supply). I have also got one GT-400 (two monblocks... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsZephyr24069: Glad to know of your musical taste, several similarities with mine. I have both He Xun Tian (Paramita) and Dawada. I am a big fan of Yello. Have several Ondekoza works. Will check out ... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsZephyr24069: Thanks for the recommendations. I am certainly gonna be looking for The Last Samurai and Tears of the Sun. I am a big admirer of Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerard. I assume you have ... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsChadeffect: Thank you. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you too. posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsZephyr24069: I like a wide stratum of music, virtually anything that sounds good and can inspire. Have you listened to the sound track of "The Dark Knight Rises"? try it. posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsJohny_1: Thank you buddy for the kind comments. The room is 26 by 16. You asked the most important question, that is speaker placement. Basically, I view speakers and room as one entity -- they mus... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsItch: hahahaha, $900,000? You gotta be kidding me, man. There is no way the price of my amplification can be that. You missed 2 zeros at the end my friend.....think of $90,000,000. The amp chassis ... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsThank you Zephyr24069. You too have a very nice system.happy holidays. Make suggestions of some good music if you can :) posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsSystem edited: tons of pictures added posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsI hate to beat my own drum and that has never been my intention but cannot help share my joy with all of you nice audio buddies. The sound is so damn musical. It is like magic, with holographic ima... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemArnie: I will visit you soon. Thanks for the invitation.You too are cordially invited to my place. posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsMallen123: Big mistake you made. My Apogee Fullrange with go with me to the grave. It is not a speaker that you wanna get rid of. But it (and other planar speakers) does require extremely careful p... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsT212: I have the loading set at 100 ohm and VTF at 1.85.However, I must mention that I love my digital more :) posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Texas Heat with Apogees and TRL ampsAlbert: I have been in touch with audiogon technical support to see if my old system could be restored, along with all the threads (which is really the wealth of information) but sadly it could not... posted over 11 years ago | View comment | |
Babybear's SystemHi Arnie:Are you still using the REL subs?I wonder how this system compares to the one I listened to 2-3 years back.GD posted over 11 years ago | View comment |