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| Stainless stell stoves are cool, but not high-end B&W sells in-wall speakers. Tweeters Etc. has a display of in-wall speakers. | |
| Adcom GFP-750 Modfication Question Michael Percy Audio sells Black Gates. If all you have to do is swap out cap's maybe you could do it yourself and not have to ship out the pre.FWIW, I asked Adcom about swapping out components and they told me they use high quality components thro... | |
| DYI Speakers. How good can they be? Corian? | |
| Why are some cables 'directional'? Could be from the direction the wire was drawn through the die and formed the crystaline structure in the wire. | |
| Best DAC for under $500 Viggen, I've got a Marantz CDR-500. Uses the Philips VAM 12.5 mechanism. Same as the $3,000 Cary 303/100. | |
| DYI Speakers. How good can they be? If you want to succeed, I would suggest a design which does not currently exist.Like a floorstander designed to go up against the wall (Naim is the exception - Naim is always the exception and is one of the most highly regarded names in Hi-Fi in U... | |
| Gilmore Audio planars revealed A 2 ton jet is lighter than the air it displaces too. Otherwise could'nt get off the ground. | |
| Grain free, how to identify it My take is that vocals sound rough and coarse like the singer has a hoarse throat. | |
| Need to clean some cds Power tools, you need power tools my friend.Seriously, doing anything to the CD's will only make them sound worse. Polishing one area will made the surface wavy- not a good thing. And any scratch removing polish will put in zillions of finer scrat... | |
| Sensitive Monitors Warrenh, how about Merlin TSM's or Red Rose? I agree, 100wpc runs out fast with the M20's. | |
| Best Rock, Blues, Jazz speaker under $1,500. Polk Lsi 15's from Crutchfield or www.jandr.com. Paradigm also has bass. | |
| Paper Cones in HiFi? Paper is the most natural sounding to my ears. But it lacks dynamics and high volume capability.To add to TWL's post, I think paper is good for absorbing unwanted resonances in the driver. Better than metal and polypropylene (that's a low end mate... | |
| Audiogon Abbr. Dictionary IMS = in my systemROFLMAOPIMP = rolling on floor laughing my ass off pee in my pants | |
| Am I the only one who thinks B&W is mid-fi? After talking with other people, here's a ththought about Nautilus. First I get don't measure a spike at 80 and 10,000 hz as Mikez says. And the BBC dip at the presence region is measured anechoic and may make actual in-room response more flat. In... | |
| Heard the Ultimate speakers in NYC Stereophile has an October issue? Wonder if I'll ever get mine. |