johnnyb53
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| Are subs worth the price for music? My question is, for strictly music, are subs even worth while...$$$......if so, why? What could I expect that’s different and/or better than what I’m already hearing..............No experience with subs and music, so forgive the lame question for ... | |
| Technics Turntables...really??? pjrebordaoLP12s remind me of Model Ts...Then you’re doing it wrong. Period. | |
| Which Nakamichi to choose? 11-1/2 years ago I abandoned digital and returned to LPs. I have a 2002 Cartier Town Car, which--because of its year of manufacture--has an audio system that plays both CDs and cassettes. I always felt that pre-recorded cassettes were junk, too. B... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? cd318 wrote (in part):It's just that it's [playback through the larger Tannoys] so emotionally satisfying, especially with some classic EMI 1950s and 60s recordings where it feels like everything has aligned and this is as close to perfect as yo... | |
| In need high-efficency speakers Remember, the Heritage Klipsch products are reproductions of their products when *all* the home amplification was low-powered tubes.Klipsch claims a 99dB sensitivity rating with 1 watt input for the Heresy III. | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? kosst_amojan writes:Lots of things aren’t huge radiating surfaces. Flutes. Horns. Human voices. I certainly think dipole speakers have advantages you can’t get any other way, but they have disadvantages unlike any other speaker too. Well, the funn... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? audiotroy writes:So the reason why timbre is so difficult is that all systems are colored and true accuracy accross all freqencies is very hard to achieve.True enough as stated, but I submit that the speaker/room interaction and the resulting rad... | |
| Which magnepan I have a pair of 1.7s bought new in Nov. 2013--nearly 5 years ago. I power them with a Perreaux PMF 1150B amp rated at 100wpc into 8 ohms and (I presume) around 200wpc into 4 ohms, which is the typical Maggie load.I also supplement them with a pai... | |
| What phono pre am I looking for? I'd look into the Black Ice (formerly Jolida) F159 vacuum tube phono preamplifier at your exact target retail price of $1495. It's all tube and has 40dB and 60dB gain settings.Designed by Jim Fosgate. | |
| Foil damping tape as a tonearm tube wrap? noromance:Anyone use PTFE (plumber’s) tape?I use PTFE on the tonearm of my Technics SL1210 M5G. I consider it an ideal mod, at least for that application.Advantages are:It’s very light, and doesn’t significantly affect the tonearm’s effective mass... | |
| Technics 1200 Critic Fremer Praises the newer 1200G ...My criticism: $4000 is still a lot of moolah - unless you are in the top 10% of wage earners! So I will just make do with my vintage 1200 (maybe get a new mat!).The SL1200 debuted in 1968 for about $350. Adjusted for inflation, that's about $... | |
| Technics Turntables...really??? Ok, what am I missing? When I hear Technics turntables, I think Craigslist and DJ tables. What am I missing? I’ll tell you what you’re *not* missing--too much Kool-Aid--Kool-Aid from high end audio snobs, Kool-Aid from belt-drive snobs and from th... | |
| Filling speaker Stands? geoffkait writes:So did anyone actually AB the system with filled stands and without filled stands? No. How about a blind test? No.Um, yes. I had some "bookshelf" speakers on undamped stands for several weeks and came to know playback's resonant p... | |
| SL1200GAE New Tonearm tzh21y:one of my questions regarding the Technics arm is how were they able to bend it? It is magnesium?The tonearm is made of aluminum with a magnesium coated finish. | |
| Best speaker/system piano concerts When I got my Magnepan 1.7s almost five years ago, I was stunned by their realistic presentation of piano. Hearing piano through Maggies often cause me to turn my head in reaction to look at the piano that isn't there. I Googled to find some corro... |