Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Opinions wanted on upgrade

Thank you, Randyman, that's very generous of you. I gave the Cambridge a fair chance, a fair test and got rid of it. If someone else likes their D500SE, that's fine. My report was honest.

I think Semi On and Chess should take their rude behavior to another forum, so visitors aren't led to think that the Axiom site is unfriendly and inhabited by trolls.

2x6spds

Since when is subject clarity, opposing opinion and a logical response rude?
Calling someone rude openly in the forum, now that's puerile.

Don't degrade yourself to name calling in public. Posts those thoughts privately if you please.

As for those visiting the boards, I think they can decide for themselves whose advice they prefer to take. I'm sure people are smart enough to do that on their own 2x6spds.

Sorry to digress (again), but I see that 2x6spds loves tube amps...

I was an electronics nerd in my youth, and built quite a few DIY tube amps in my highschool days back in Japan. My pinnacle "opus" was a 60W x 2 output-transformer-less power amp, which used as many as 8 big power tubes (called 6336) per channel to lower the output impedance. That was a heck of finicky beast, but when set up correctly, it sounded so sweet (well, at least to me!). I still have that amp in the closet, but I do not have guts to power it on anymore. Talk about getting old...

Indeed, a fresh-off-the-bench tube amps always needed some "break-in." The big final-stage tubes kept changing their electrical properties during the first 20-30 hours or so of operation, only after which I could stably set the bias voltage, etc.

I also built a high-sensitivity tube pre-amp for moving coil pick-ups (remember those?). The tough part was the calibration of the RIAA curve... You can readily hear a 0.5dB deviation, and it was fun!

My memories long for those good ol' days with low dumping factors, RIAA deviations, and easily measurable levels of harmonic distortion... Those days you could easily detect a real sound difference between amps, I guess even without a blind test! Each amp used to have its own "character," much like loudspeakers still do today...

By the way, those days (late '70s) it was very fashionable among Japense audiophiles to use a thick, heavy-duty, outdoor-spec power cord as speaker wire. Talk about low resistance and high reliability! I guess the hobby was then much healthier than it is today...? LOL

Cheers!

Heaven forbid people disagree with you 2x6. We wouldn't want anyone questioning the party line of audiophile rhetoric in favor of *gasp* scientific inquiry!

I simply don't have the time to cuddle with you so you feel satisfactorily consoled when we don't share the same idea.

I hope someone from Axiom weighs in here. This used to be a friendly, wecoming board -- even to people who mentioned cables or burn-in.

I suppose this isn't the time to ask if bi-amping will double or half the amount of burn-in required?

lol. You owe me one keyboard.

Sorry chess...

Didn't mean to rile you up!
If I step outside I could get hit with 20 - 25ft. waves on the north shore! (surf's way up!)

Somehow I thought I was pretty much agreeing with you! - I just didn't want the posts to become PERSONAL attacks here!

I am one of many here who believes that there is little (if any) sound difference between receivers when they are truly comparable in price/specs. As I have stated (and Alan has reiterated, I believe) there are just certain principals of component design and construction vs cost that cannot be ignored. If any company wants to stay in business, they have to make a profit, and to do so they usually have to be competitive in price vs their competition.

Thus similar prices usually mean similar specs, features and sound.

Gee, is it possible for that statement to be controversial???

Randyman

Randyman,
I was just kidding about the stepping outside thing...and i was poking fun of our idiot B.C.provincial premier who got caught for drunk driving down in Hawaii and was charged recently.
I figured you had heard about it buti guess i lost you on the joke.
If not, chek out this link and you will see what i was referring to:
cbc news story
My apologies if you thought i was serious.
Next time i'll try to remember to add more emoticons.

Dang chess...
I missed that news item! You are SO ON TOP of everything!!

Nah, I didn't really consider that you were you seriously mad!
Now let's all get together and have a virtual group hug.....

Outta here!

Rman