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| 'Unlistenable' early digital recordings? I've had a Tice Power Block III Signature for about 25 years and it seems to do a good job of cleaning up the power. I also live in a semi-rural area where my power is pretty good to start with. As far as early digital recordings there were indeed... | |
| Anyone else notice rating scales are getting inflated? Totally agree with OP. My other pet peeve is lack of photos. It's amazing to me that sellers will list a piece of equipment for over $1k and provide a single photo of the gear in his rack. If they are so lazy that they won't pull it out and take p... | |
| Pure Class A amps above 100 Watts? If you're willing to buy used a Krell KSA 300S is one of the best implementations of pure Class A topology. 300 watts @ 8 ohms, 1200 watts @ 2 ohms. You could buy one and have it restored/recapped and still have room in your budget. | |
| Low Sensitivity Speakers Compression Issue. The OP is attempting to back up his personal sonic preferences with a theory that may or may not be valid. I have developed the exact opposite listening preference - I generally prefer the sound of low sensitivity speakers. High sensitivity speake... | |
| How far have ss amps really come in the last twenty years? In an interview with Steve Guttenberg Dan D'Agostino commented that one of the best sounding amps he ever produced was the KSA 50. I have a KSA 300S and I have wondered how it would compare to today's high end SS amps. I have personally heard a di... | |
| Thiel CS 2.2 Speakers... What you all think? " 25 years with the same speaker? That's remarkable. What are you even doing on a site like this? ;-) "Good question! Had to laugh because I've had my Mirage M3si speakers for 23 years and I'm in no hurry to upgrade. I also have had my Krell g... | |
| Speaker advice for listening to Blues music I have several hundred blues CDs and records and some of them just aren’t recorded very well. If your system sounds good on your best recorded source material I would not recommend choosing speakers to take the harshness out of your poor recording... | |
| Speakers under $50k that rival $200k+ speakers? If you can spare the time (you obviously have the funds) I suggest attending an audio show to calibrate your expectations. I went to the 2018 AXPONA and the Tampa show this spring. My favorite speakers at both shows were the MBL 101 E's Yes, they ... | |
| Ultimate power condotioner I'm at a loss as to how you can separate the effect of the new room from whatever impact the transformer made. In my experience the impact from a different room would grossly overwhelm any impact from a dedicated transformer. | |
| Double Advent wiring question... OK, here's to your original question. Yes, you can make a single run of speaker wire to each speaker and then add jumpers to go from the + of that speaker to the + of the stacked speaker, same for minus terminals (actually Advents labeled their te... | |
| Double Advent wiring question... I ran stacked Advents (literally stacked vertically with woofers on bottom) for several years first using a Marantz 2325 then an Adcom GFA 555. They sounded very good overall but had their plusses and minuses. In true budget fashion I built 8" sta... | |
| Some Thoughts on Axpona 2019--from an Axpona Newbie I've been to two audio shows; AXPONA last year and the Tampa show this winter. I think the thing that struck me most was an almost complete disconnection between the price and the quality of sound. I heard modest systems that sounded wonderful and... | |
| Is it possible to have vinyl nearly noise free? I've always hated vinyl noise and I've been on a quest for the last 30 years to minimize it. There are quite a few of my precious albums that are in pretty rough shape. I have tried various cleaning methods with mixed results but nothing has been ... | |
| What is the one piece of advice you would give about attending AXPONA? Some of the rooms will be crowded nearly all the time. Wait until the end of the day, particularly on Sunday to catch the most popular rooms. People get tired and call it a day a couple hours before the show closes. I had the best listening on Sun... | |
| Disco...yep, I'm going there Yeah, disco sucks. How can anyone can like blues; it's just the same chord patterns with the same lyrics over and over. Grunge is a few whiny bands from the same gray town who are pissed off at being alive. Metal? There's no music there, only horm... |