fsonicsmith
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| Audio Research S80 with DeVORE FIDELITY O/96 @wolf_garcia I hesitate to respond at all. There is nothing in your response that calls for one-in fact it seems a bit irrational. Collings guitar? Pricing of audio components sometimes has a black and white border such as when Lexicon took the... | |
| Audio Research S80 with DeVORE FIDELITY O/96 It's always a good idea to combine overpriced components with each other. 12 grand for a couple of drivers in a box with a veneered front? Count me in! @wolf_garcia Try finding equal sound for less. In addition, all aspects of both ARC gear a... | |
| Audio Research S80 with DeVORE FIDELITY O/96 I have the 80S with a Ref 6 and the Devore O/93's.You definitely do not need the 160S, no matter how large your room might be. Pentode vs. Triode is personal taste. Triode provides a bit more depth to the midrange, Pentode provides more authority,... | |
| VPI upgrade? I almost never agree with mijostyn but this time I do in part and not in part. He is right, the VPI unipivot arm is a total pain for the average schmo, though my trusted set-up expert Brian Walsh says he can make them sound very good and he has no... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) @prof First, to answer your question Friend, it measured very well. Extremely well. I don't normally even read the measurements section as to loudspeakers so I had to go back and read it to answer your question. What most impresses ME is that ... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) I am not surprised that John Atkinson favorably reviewed them in the new issue of S'Phile. I am surprised that he a) spent three times as much space describing Andrew Jones' design process as he did with listening notes b) completely ignored his m... | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps @dmader48 I bet we either know each other or know of people in common. I went to tOSU from '78 to '84 for both undergrad and law school. As I bet you know, Scott, the owner and founder of the store started out selling speaker building kits ... | |
| Has anyone kept the 6550 regulator tube past 2K hours in a ARC REF6? carlsbad 1,213 posts 12-31-2022 at 03:41pm I’d say a very low percentage of tube amp users actually log hours. Most tubes are run to failure. I'd say very few ARC Ref 6 run them to failure as the remote to the Ref 6 makes in incredibly... | |
| Don’t buy used McCormack DNA 1990s amps Audio Research Corp will not repair their solid state amps. They say it is not possible. A stupid story. I bought my McCormack DNA.5 Deluxe from Progressive Audio on High Street in Columbus OH in 1996 or so. Shortly before, Steve had come to Pro... | |
| What are your top 3 favorite female singers? Steve Perry Michael Jackson Adam Lambert I despise Natalie Merchant but I am fairly certain she could kick all three of their asses at the same time with one arm tied behind her back. I saw her with 10,000 Maniacs when she yelled at the audienc... | |
| Steamer upgrade? Follow up follow up When I was a boy we would dig for them on the beach, take them home in buckets, and my grandma would cook them up and serve with drawn butter. | |
| Contemplating DEVORE SPEAKERS (and others)....LONG audition report of many speakers Thanks Matt Hooper. | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home Try this for grins. Go to Devore Fidelity’s website and scroll through each authorized dealer, hitting the hyperlink to view each dealer’s site and lines. With some exceptions you will see that the vast majority carry what I call the small niche b... | |
| Contemplating DEVORE SPEAKERS (and others)....LONG audition report of many speakers @prof I hope you will write about "them" here. I look forward to reading your thoughts and hearing which AN model you auditioned. I imagine that with your writing skills you will meaningfully convey the strengths and weaknesses of the MoFi project... | |
| Lyra Etna Lambda SL tracking force The sweet spot is normally 1.69 to 1.71 assuming you have all other parameters correct. I am the original owner of one of these, though it is not an SL. I think you need to let this cartridge break in at the recommended VTF and then and only then ... |