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| Some of the best pre amps used for $600 or less There is allot of Krell stuff that SHOULD BE 600, but people keep overpriceing this stuff. It is great if one can get it cheap enough and when it breaks you don't really need to worry- just get another one if it is cheap enough. | |
| Help Needed Designing an "Amphitheater-Like" House Geezee, you call me a Steely Dan lover, then run away. Talk about drive by trolling. What about the chink in my armour? You don't see me crying off to mambe-pambe land (I love that add) lolololAnyway, you do raise an interesting point. I too have ... | |
| What makes strings sound "sweet"? I think it is due to tone woods and the type of varnish they use and the strings and the bow and the player too.How to get to Carnege Hall - Practice! | |
| Help Needed Designing an "Amphitheater-Like" House What ever you say, Mr_stain. Remember, in the end, it is all in the brain. Some of got one, some of us didn't. The brain is the ultimate transducer, so don't forget to work on that a bit too. okay? lolololol!! | |
| Help Needed Designing an "Amphitheater-Like" House I thought amphitheaters were outside with no walls or roofs?The idea was to make sounds audible to all listeners without the aid of amplification.Maybe what you really want is an arena rock venue? lolol | |
| Does the Audio Research PH-3 Invert Polarity? Don't most good preamps have a polarity reversal swith?Seems like an overpriced phono preamp that doesn't allow you to adjust ANYTHING!? Like you have to get inside and change resistors just to adjust the input imped!!.(And this is from a hugh ARC... | |
| Favorite Non-Major Record Label Rounder - is that non-major? I was buying allot of their blues (and allot of artists that dont fit into a typical genre)back in the 1980s and 90s. Relativity Records - great in the 80s and 90s for metal and they had players like Steve Vi and Joe S... | |
| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers well, this topic started in '02, so at that time one could have taken out a giant home equity loan and bought one heck of a pair of speakers, but that option is not in play these days, is it?. :) | |
| What if you designed your ultimate speaker? 20 way? Are you going to have 20 inclosures too? Is there anyway to predict how 20 drivers are going to react in the same box? So what if the X-over is only sending them 1/2 octave, what about back waves (passive atunatoin) from the other drivers.... | |
| Top 5 Rock n Roll Vocalists Jimi Hendrix. I have always thought he had a cool voice and am always surpriesed that it is just guitar-guitar-guitar, when he was a really good singer too.The chick from Heart - is that Nancy Wilson ?The dude from Supertramp?Marie Osmand Pat Beni... | |
| High End Audio and Your hearing as you get older Really, a trained ear takes years to develope. So, with age, what you may loose in Hz range, is offset by knowing what to listen for. Younger people probably dont hear "better" because they don't know how to listen yet. My hearing for detail has g... | |
| what are some of the best amplifiers Really, I just got rid on 300lbs of SS monoblocks and found true love in a 300B 9W triode- never been happier, and my back too! Im too old to play with the heavy iron, and NON of it is really that great anyway.(this is an old topic, and by reading... | |
| Zingali Overture series thumbs "up" or "down" Hi Marty.Do you know what brand of drivers they used? I have poked around on line and found some indication that Zingali, at one time or another, OEMed the drivers from JBL, but maybe only on the "pro" models made before a certain year. So, i was ... | |
| Threshold Stasis 2...Worth a rebuild??? id invest the 1300 into a good SET. and burry the old SS, imho. | |
| More hifi in TV ads "Pawn Stars" - have they bought any high end gear yet? It would be interesting to see someone come in with a $20K SET amp and what Chymly thinks it is. |