terry9
Responses from terry9
| $16K new/used speaker question? Second the new Quads. I have been using 2905's for 10 years now, with no issues - just happy ears. | |
| Best Of Breed or Matching Components? This from the perspective of a DIYer.Every resistor, every capacitor matters. Not to mention every single tube, transistor, op-amp, and transformer, as well as the topology. Just this month, I had to scramble because a simple resonance tweak chang... | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? Inna is right. Nottingham Analogue may be a bit obscure, but it is considerably underpriced, whatever your budget. I have been a happy customer for 18 years. | |
| Suggest affordable cable options Wire is most definitely not wire. But it is not a function of budget, either, as Czar points out.The physics comes directly from Maxwell's Equations: high inductance attenuates high frequency as a linear function of length, for currents in the lou... | |
| Bryston vs Modwright? I was offered a Bryston 3BSST demo and took it home. It sounded good, so I talked to some guy at the factory, quizzed him for an hour, and it turned out he was the president! I bought the demo and ordered a 4BSST as well, to biamp a magnepan syste... | |
| Do I really need Desoldering for replacing resistors/caps? Eddy, in my home town the local high end store also does car audio. Their installer is superb - Mercedes quality or higher (and I own Mercedes). I suggest that you visit a few car audio stores, and when you find the best, go into the shop and meet... | |
| Do I really need Desoldering for replacing resistors/caps? Sorry, meant to say, "But it is a skill, and good REWORK equipment makes it a lot easier." | |
| Do I really need Desoldering for replacing resistors/caps? Eddy, gs5556 obviously has experience with the very units you wish to modify. I would take his advice very seriously.Soldering is not a very difficult skill, but it is a skill. I would not start on something which is towards the difficult end of t... | |
| best value current production tonearm Dentdog, low low low compliance works. Don't know about high.The TransFi seems to be made for tweaking, and so may be superior to the alternatives at any price. As you know, the wand is aluminum and has a series of holes along the major axis, whic... | |
| Thoughts on replacing caps in 30 year old speakers To clarify: I have upgraded KEF's, Magnepans and Quad ESL's, not Thiels. But if you like their sound, why not? When I upgrade to film and foil, I expect increased clarity and decreased harshness. I have found that polypropylene is rounded, polysty... | |
| Thoughts on replacing caps in 30 year old speakers Stolen makes four basic grades of cap, in ascending order: metallized polypropylene (black), tin foil and polypropylene film (white), metallized teflon (blue), and tin foil and teflon film (green). They sound very different.Metallized poly is the ... | |
| Just moved to an apartment need speaker suggestions One more vote for Magnepan. Or electrostatics. | |
| Power conditioning from the ground up Jafant, to my knowledge the main advantage of industrial grade outlets is a very strong, positive contact. Think hospitals, with a string of cords hanging on one outlet. | |
| Power conditioning from the ground up Consider an isolation transformer. Plitron makes a good one, good enough for medical equipment, and sells directly to the public. It's a spectacular deal.Then run 10AWG Romex to good industrial grade outlets, say $15 each from an electrical supply... | |
| Back to it - Practical speaker upgrade I think you should make a point of listening to Magnepan speakers before you make your decision. Planar speakers like Magnepans and electrostatics sound different. Some people can't stand them - but I won't live without them. |