abnerjack
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| Bass distortion before tweeter distortion with a monitor at high volume? Thanks for all the interesting answers and differing points of view. I don't have the knowledge of many of the experienced posters here and it is nice to be able to take advantage of it. It seems it might be a good idea to look for a speaker/tw... | |
| Bass distortion before tweeter distortion with a monitor at high volume? sboje, "If your speaker manufacturer uses the same tweeter in a larger 3 or even 4-way design, I would expect it to breeze along just fine."Thanks for an excellent common sense answer. To find a real world example, I went to Kef's web site and l... | |
| Bass distortion before tweeter distortion with a monitor at high volume? sfall,Thanks for the response and for the link. Here is what I don't understand. If I try to play a small speaker in a too large room and have to supply too much power to it, it will distort. True? It just can't play that loudly. So simply ad... | |
| Pass Labs stfoth "Seems like he'd be a tube guy"+1He was also into sax! | |
| Snell Type A II Speakers This will help with putting a value on them. Put "Snell Type A" in the search box and away you go. Be sure to look at the sold listings as well.https://www.hifishark.com/search?q=snell+type+a | |
| MMGs kythyn,Magnepan used Bryston to drive their speakers for years at shows. I have the 1.7 and use the Bryston 4b sst2 with a pair of REL T5 subs and am very happy with the sound. | |
| Pass Labs JC 1 current price $4,495 each x2 = $8,990 per pair.http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PAJC1 | |
| Upgrading Turntables. Stick with Rega? I would vote for the Rega as well. Based on what you have said, it sounds like you think you will be upgrading in the future anyway, so get the Rega and in the meantime maybe read and listen to other options. When you decide to upgrade, the mar... | |
| Ever Bought an Audio Product that was Stupid Good for the Money? Whoops, forgot to mention I'm referring to the Magnepan 1.7. | |
| Ever Bought an Audio Product that was Stupid Good for the Money? From Jonathan Valin of The Absolute Sound"I have now listened to the 1.7s for almost four months, and I can say with confidence that they are worthy successors to the 1.6s, the speakers I have long thought (and often called) the best buys in h... | |
| I dislike so much new music, but I am liking this very much! toddnkaya,Thanks for the Mutual Benefit recommendation. Here is the first sentence from allmusic.com review: ""Gentle" and "reassuring" aren't necessarily the most exciting compliments to give an album, but Mutual Benefit's Jordan Lee turns those... | |
| Looking for CD player recommendations that are a great match with Classe & Vandersteen I have had what I think is a wonderful cd player, Simaudio Moon Supernova, for several years and enjoy it, but have been using it as a dac only to stream Tidal via a pc. I have forgotten about cds. Tidal offers 40 million tracks at redbook quali... | |
| My Audio Research experience davidpritchard+1 | |
| Speaker recommendation for married couple audiotroy +1. The man speaks the truth! | |
| Help: Feedback Needed for Monitor Audio Silver RS Pricing Hifi Shark works well for this purpose.https://www.hifishark.com/ |