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| All Pre 1970 Vintage speakers suck! Prove me wrong Roxy54, I agree. I do like the Grand Utopias, but at the modest listening levels I prefer, they don’t have the liveliness of great horn systems. Which is best depends on priorities. For comparable dollars spent, I can get a custom designed hor... | |
| Thank You Fumihiko Sugano and Koetsu Of course a $2,000 Koetsu Blue Lace beater would be nice, but if it were something easy to do, it would have already happened. I have heard quite a few nice sounding cartridges, and some sounded better to me in certain respects, but nothing sound... | |
| How are we wiring our Mono systems? There are plenty of people who want to play mono, even when the source is a stereo recording, meaning that the two channels have to be summed. The easiest way is with a Y connecter, which is essentially what your mono button does if your componen... | |
| All Pre 1970 Vintage speakers suck! Prove me wrong I heard the Beveridge system in 1974, I believe, when they were quite new. This was a very nice sounding system, but bass was a bit loose, boomy, and not well integrated with the rest of the spectrum. It may not quite be pre-1970, but, it is a g... | |
| All Pre 1970 Vintage speakers suck! Prove me wrong While not my favorite, the JBL Hartsfield is still a pretty good vintage speaker. | |
| All Pre 1970 Vintage speakers suck! Prove me wrong Doyle, IPC made terrific speakers. The drivers, in particular are still highly prized. You are quite lucky having it. I know of a few mono systems built around vintage drivers. One of my favorite speakers is a mono system that Deja Vu Audio b... | |
| All Pre 1970 Vintage speakers suck! Prove me wrong There are great sounding speakers from the 1930’s that still deliver great sound, albeit not in living room friendly packaging. Shearer-Lansing systems sound good, as are Western Electric theater systems. If you include modern systems built from... | |
| Not sure if I have enough oomph. Why not wait to hear the set up before going off in search of another amp? I cannot think of a speaker that really "needs" more than the 240 wpc you can get out of the Krell; if the sound disappoints, it is not for lack of power. | |
| Anybody here got a leftover Naim 555PS regulator after upgrade to DR version? Have you looked into power supplies from Teddy Pardo Audio? They are MUCH cheaper than Naim. I sort of worry about what to do when my 555PS DR gives out. Unfortunately for me, Teddy Pardo does not have a direct replacement for that power su... | |
| The use of digital pitch correction software on vocal recordings Autotune has its place, witness what it has done for this masterpiece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxTNhD5jTyQ Now, think of what it would do if Yoko Ono had access to same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsgMbxyDmCY | |
| Corner base trap- to the ceiling? Given how long are bass frequency waves, the pressure of the soundwave is highest at a boundary because the positive pressure of the wave moving toward the wall meets the positive pressure of the wave reflected back from the wall (the incoming and... | |
| speakers cables for Lavardin and Harbeth? I agree that cables will matter a lot with these speakers. Any good speaker will reveal differences in upstream components. While I have not heard these speakers with either the Cardas Clear or Nordost Frey, I am not at all surprised by the resu... | |
| Corner base trap- to the ceiling? If maximum absorption is the goal, it is probably best to reach all the way to the ceiling, but, getting close is probably enough. You most certainly can overdo any kind of treatment. I once heard a really nice setup in a very large dedicated ro... | |
| Let's Talk DAC's My local dealer loves to do whacky, but very instructive, demonstrations with the ProAc Tablette speaker. Recently, he put a $30,000 tube amp on the speaker to demonstrate that amps matter a whole lot, even when the speakers are supposedly "modes... | |
| Question about suitable fuse metals If you open the amp, you will see that the fuse holder has two tabs where the wires are attached to the fuse holder. Simply de-solder or cut the wires at the tab and then connect up the two ends of the wire together (solder then insulate with ele... |