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| Music Server What *IS* it with people who have so much money they feel they need to spend it on something that costs 30 times as what they need to spend? Antipodes is based upon Fedora 20, the experimenter’s version of Redhat Linux. It is not something that wi... | |
| True audio stories! Do you have any? Back in the mid-70's, I was hanging out one evening with my friend Tom Tutay, who now does a lot of tube amp work. He'd just gotten in a Dyna ST150 solid state amp, and as was his practice back then, he went about beefing up the power supply. He... | |
| Looking for a new pre-amp!! For just under $1000, you can build the SP14 kit from VTA and get something to set up against those much, much more expensive preamps you see on Audiogon.http://www.tubes4hifi.com/SP14.htm...or you could build the same sort of thing from scratch u... | |
| Speakers for 15K - Discounts Forget spending $15k on this. Build the Linkwitz LX521 system for 1/3rd the price, get a loudspeaker at least as good and likely better, and being this is a DIY project, you'll have much, MUCH more enjoyment from your system. Spend your $10k sav... | |
| Looking for my first tube amplifier, help appreciated. Get hold of the guys at VTA. They'll help you out to customize your amp.http://tubes4hifi.com/ | |
| Need Suggestions for speakers up to $15K new/used If you want a set of speakers you'll never want to replace AND be well under your budget, build yourself a set of Linkwitz LX521 or the Linkwitz Orion. If you don't feel like it, even within your budget, you can get them delivered to your doorste... | |
| Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp?? The problem is you’re spending too much.http://tubes4hifi.com/pre11.htm#PH14 | |
| Subwoofers.... one 10" or two 8"? You've GOT to be kidding that you're even considering an 8" sub-woofer. There's no replacement for displacement and even with a 10" driver, you're marginal on the deep end, which is where subs are supposed to operate. There's a reason they make ... | |
| Power for Klipschorns K-horns are just about the most efficient loudspeaker on the planet. You can drive them with one of those under 10 watts single ended tube amps. Back in the late 50's Klipsch decided that a center channel was a good idea, which is where people s... | |
| Best Small Floorstanding Speaker under $2K Under the $2000 price point, the best loudspeaker, by way far, is the Linkwitz LXmini. In fact, you can put together an LXmini package, WITH amplification, for about $1100. Unbelievable imaging, detail and natural tonal balance. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? The other night I pulled out a 1960 recording of Betty Carter. She just killed it. Wow. I ripped a track to mp3. Take a listen for yourself to her rendition of "What a Little Moonlight Can Do". Be sure to hang onto your seat.http://russbutto... | |
| Bi-amping Rules When you bi-amp, you become a speaker designer, like it or not. There was a time when it was a bit of a pig in a poke, but the possibilities were always there. The miniDSP 2x4 active crossover only costs about $110 and it allows you to do DSP EQ... | |
| ok im opening pandoras box here.(treatment vs framed wall art) If you have a room specially dedicated to sound, what you've got is a very, very big set of headphones. And some like that. For me a sound system should live with the rest of the family and the rest of the home. I do what I can in terms of room... | |
| Magico Ultimate, how is it? The great thing about opinions is that there are so many of them.My own opinion is that anyone who drops much more than $6000 on loudspeakers is wasting their money because you can build a Linkwitz LX521 and amplification for less than that and ne... | |
| Equipment Rack P.T. Barnum was right. |