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| Thiel speaker service I also had a great experience with Rob regarding rebuilding the woofer in my CS6. I dearly love these speakers and it was a huge relief to be able to repair them.Regarding Thiel's demise, there are different ways to look at it. Jim Thiel was a gen... | |
| New ebay payments require SS#? @mtrot In the case where you don't have the receipt for a piece of gear you simply estimate it's original value. In 99.999% of the cases you lose money on the transaction.This whole thing will only be an issue if you get audited. You will report n... | |
| New ebay payments require SS#? Thanks to the OP for this post. I was not aware of this whole issue. Several other posts have excellent information and thanks to them as well.As a former small business owner I can make a few points.The issue is legitimate and it is not some sort... | |
| transistor pre with the sound of tubes A low cost option is to buy a Yaqin SD-CD3 tube buffer for a couple hundred bucks and try it to see if you like what it does. I've got mine hooked up between one of my CD players and the preamp. You can also insert it into the tape loop if you hav... | |
| Soundstage A few thoughts:A deep, layered soundstage is fairly difficult to achieve IME. Choose a couple recordings to use as a reference that will give you a basis for judging your progress. "Coal Train" (Hugh Masekela - Hope album) and "Roughest Place in T... | |
| Holographic Soundstage ? @ mikekollarI also have a C9 and I've compared the two processors. I prefer the BSG because the effect covers a wider listening area. You can be sitting a couple feet to either side and you still get the soundstage effect with the BSG but with the... | |
| Holographic Soundstage ? There is a piece of gear that has the specific objective of giving you a more holographic soundstage. It's a processor from a company called BSG (no longer in business) and the model is a QOL (pronounced coal). It has been positively reviewed by S... | |
| Stereophile's 2021 products of the year I think it's interesting that nobody has mentioned the obvious - that the sound quality of modern gear is getting closer and closer. To us mortals with normal hearing modern components sound very similar to each other. In other words, they mostly ... | |
| New-ish to Audiogon Forums... Is it always like this? This forum is a mixed bag but it is worth it for me to check in every day and see if there is anything relevant. I skip most threads that ask for gear recommendations for the reason you describe. Once in a while the question is structed in such a ... | |
| About to invest in room treatments; GIK, RealTraps, DIY -- what is your experience? Here is a really interesting video on DIY panels made from towels. The guy tests several different materials and cotton towels work the best. I haven't built any yet but I'm going to try it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pABvTWSxOes&t=29s | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning Thanks for all the informative posts in this thread. Unfortunately, I'm a little late to the party and the Happybuy cleaner is out of stock at Amazon. I see that there is a separate record spinning attachment available but it appears to be out of ... | |
| A question to the Sound Engineers out there I had a home studio and recorded bands in the Portland, Oregon area for about 10 years from the mid 90's. I was a one stop shop - I did the recording, mixing, and mastering. Here are a few observations from my own experience.Most well known master... | |
| Speaker sensitivity vs SQ First, thanks to @b_limo for posting the DeVore video. I hadn’t seen that before and it is the best explanation of the relationship between sensitivity and impedance I’ve ever seen.Several good answers to the original OP question but I wanted to a... | |
| A deeper more holographic soundstage. I've heard two pieces of equipment that increase the depth of the soundstage - one I own and the other I heard at AXPONA.A company called BSG Technologies made a processor called the QOL (pronounced coal). This unit is a refinement on phasing proc... | |
| Is this how a Subwoofer Crossover is supposed to work? Except for the name calling this has been an interesting thread. I've learned several things.I realize that I'm not answering your question but I would like to take a step back and look at this from another angle.1. Your Moabs are spec'd to 20 hz.... |