Recent content by DaanS

I recently compared the BX2s and WD220s, and compared those to their floorstanding siblings as well, the BX6 and WD240. At one point I compared them to the Dali Zensor series as well, but it quickly became apparent that was not the sound for me. The Wharfedales are warmer than the Monitor...

My Monitor Audio BX2 loudspeakers didn't sound exactely the same when I was testing them (switching channels, driving them solo on all channels etc). This was while I was running them in though and the amp wasn't in the best of shapes either. But, a difference could be heard so I set them up...

So I was curious about this SL-10, and looking at some pictures instantly put a smile on my face. It looks like a precursor to the cd-player only big and it plays vinyl and boy I need to have one. It's just too sweet not to have one. Thanks for bringing this un to my attention.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding that a more powerfull amp will generally perform with less distortion at lower volumes, and as such a powerfull amp wouldn't be bad in a small room at all. It will just do it's job effortlessly (which can be problem, depending on what...

*dash1* ... I blame it on the missing edit button Don't get me wrong. Not saying you can't have a good time with those videos. I just don't think they make for the proper material to do a comparison with.

To be honest it's seems like a really dumb thing to do. There's not just the issue with youtube compression, but also the fact that the speakers you want to judge are part of someone elses setup, in someone elses room, set to someone elses licking. The performance of that setup was was than...

Ok now I can't edit my post, that's weird. Sorry for the weird double post, perhaps someone can remove that? What I wanted to add was that it was the tilt of the cartridge was off by a mm, not the arms length.

I think that's part of it yes. When I checked the alignment it was off by a an entire mm over the length of the cartridge and correcting that seems to have done a lot. The voice of Beth in Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds was a tad lispy and that is gone now. Vocals seem clearer overall now that I...

So there's a couple of things I changed, with good results. I connected each speaker to the other channel, which allready gave a different soundstage, further supporting the experience both speaker don't perform quite equally (which was also clear from testing each speaker seperate from the...

So as I'm running in my new loudspeakers I noticed that really high tones, such as those produced by cymbals, appear kinda shrill/distorted. It feel like one of the tweeters is resonating along uncontrolled more than playing along. I went on to investigate, hooked up the speakers to eachothers...

I listened to all of those speakers recently so can give you my take on them. Please remember that's how they appear to me, I'll try to stay away from subjective terms (and fail miserably right away). The Dalis really want to have a go at it, like an excited dog that knows it's gonna have a...

I don't think he is talking about needlepreasure, but about setting the cartridge into the headshell. That's a bit more tricky to do. You can buy a plastic tool, as the guy in this video uses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsvAqTBI_7Y

It's not illegal I guess but I don't think that's normal at all. To most salesman the help you need to make use of a product you just bought from them is included in the price. Within all reason of course and fitting a cartridge doesn't only seem within reason (it doesn't take that long to do)...

I auditioned for the BX2s (among others) not too long ago and they were my speakers of choice. I listened to them using a couple of different setups: the marantz 6005 with a project debut3 turntable, NAD C375BEE with a C-516BEE cd-player and the Rotel RCX-1500 with a build-in cd-player. All...