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| antiskate disc I read AR XA inventor Edgar Villchur’s “Understanding High Fidelity” as a young man, and his position was that antiskate correction was unnecessary because it’s not the skating force you care about, it’s the groove damage caused by mistracking tha... | |
| Bi-amping McIntosh MC2120 and MC2125 with Klipsch RP-5 I’m with Glennewdick on this. You inherited Dad’s amp, and you want to incorporate it into your already well equipped system…very understandable…but your system simply doesn’t need it. Put the 2120 on a shelf in a place of honor, or develop a sec... | |
| DIY Speaker Kits, a good idea? I have gone this route and built what I think are pretty darn good speakers using Dayton Audio and Morel components, and a professionally designed crossover, but now I want something new and they are nearly impossible to sell, even for a fraction ... | |
| Cable Quandary If your wires are equal in length, you can probably chalk it up to the speaker placement and how reflected energy affects your perception. Why is Valhalla 2 different from Heimdal or Red Dawn? It does have lower resistance than all of the other m... | |
| Long Run of Speaker Cabling Transparent Audio makes custom installation bulk wire…10-2, (10 ga. 2-conductor). Terminate with their bananas. Add their Biwire Bricks. Crimp and seal all connections with silver content solder, shrink wrap, etc. This will cost you an bit under... | |
| SACD over HDMI No. eARC is specifically designed to take a signal only from an ARC port of a TV. A player like your Oppo will not work. | |
| Open Reel Curious In the early days of my audio journey I spent time with a Pioneer 10.5” RtR ans a Sony of similar quality. We recorded albums and live radio broadcasts of concerts by the likes of The Dead, The Wailers, Little Feat, Robert Palmer…that were pretty ... | |
| Single way or multiway One of the leading proponents of a single full range speaker element with no crossover are Pearl Acoustics and Mark Audio. Both keep the driver fairly small to preserve some high frequency dispersion and so give up deepest bass extension. Fritz... | |
| Powering a center channel with a two channel amp I have 50 years in audio sales and system design, with early adoption of home theater…of necessity. I also am a cheap sob, so I hate waste. The idea of using a second MC352 as a center channel amp appalls me. I agree that your front end is weak... | |
| Old SS amps I want to put a word in for G.A.S. Ampzilla, Son of, and their successors. These were among the crop of Jim Bongiorno designs that broke the “SS sounds harsh” mold and preceded the Mark Levinson era of ridiculous overbuilding and price inflation a... | |
| KEF "Q"uestion I used to sell those. At the price, there is nothing to complain about, but my recollection of these is they are a mass market model with low cabinet density, cheesy crossover components, and middling sound quality…and an early generation UniQ dr... | |
| Why so many B & W Speakers on the used market? High end buyers tend to be older. Older people tend to die, or downsize their living spaces. Surviving spouses may not have shared their deceased husband’s hobby. Generalizing, but in my area of Eastern Massachusetts we see a lot of this. | |
| New Product - Schiit Byggy DAC Details I also like their philosophy of not making their stuff bigger (and so more expensive) than the innards demand. I love small, cute components. | |
| Speakers for Mc240 Look into an AVA FET-Valve CFR all tube line preamp. $2299.00 For speakers, the Fritz Carbon 7 SE have a smooth impedance curve and are a perfect match with any tube amp. $2950.00 per pair and you’ll want some sturdy 24” stands. | |
| MBL Insolvent Past innovators like Peter Walker, Henry Kloss, Nelson Pass, and Jim Winey made products that while some were “upscale” they were within the reach of enthusiasts who were not super- wealthy. The idea that innovative speaker design has to be crazy ... |