armyscout41
Responses from armyscout41
| What's the oldest piece of gear in your system? The oldest piece in my system is the carver c-4000 preamp, 1.5t and m-400 amps including c-9 sonic holography, all made in 1980-1981 era! | |
| RECOMMENDATIONS speaker selection is subjective. I would advise that you demo various designs. I find ribbons, electrostats in regards to transducers to produce cleaner and more realistic sound on the upper mid and high range then dome or horn designs. Planars an... | |
| Best real world radial / omidirectional speaker if you can get a hold of older SLS bookshelf speakers, that would be an alternative to ohm's. I'm amazed at what it can do for home theater and audio only with their patented ribbons. I own all sorts of speakers and my favorite is my ESSHEILS and ... | |
| Speaker Choices As long you don't purchase this fraudulent person posting all over audiogon name Dakiom modified Sony that is a small cheap $60 speaker pair in 2004 turned into a $1495 speaker bunch of sticks and a black box or stabilizer in the crossover, claimi... | |
| What a difference curtains make...WOW It also depends on your speaker design. Some designs doesn't require heavy room treatments but more detrimental to the speaker performance when used, while others require extensive room treatments and environment placement. It just depends on the ... | |
| Complete newbie needing guidance/purchase advice In choosing loudspeakers, and I am loudspeaker collector, there are different approaches to design and different transducers. You have the average dynamic designs using conventional drivers such as woofer, dome tweeters etc and you have omnidirect... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? I used to be a BOSE FANATIC in the 80's but the only reason is because i could never AFFORD the INFINITY RS series which today is the best ever designed loudspeaker systems when infinity used to make high end speaker systems. They were revolutiona... | |
| The search among the great ones - 20k+ speakers I'm not a fan of any of the mentioned speakers but VON SCHWEIKERT would be your best bet for the list. But for the amount, there are so many other speaker systems to me that are far better then any that are mentioned. You can get a used infinityr ... | |
| Help Me Build a Second System For Less than $10000 I am not going to tell you any brand but I agree with many of the tube advisers. If you're getting solid state, it's going to cost you more then 10 grand for some of the real good ss. At least tubes you don't have to spend megabucks to make your s... | |
| electrostats vs ribbon drivers I have both and I like them both since I collect different designs. I'm happy with my ess heils, magnepans, eminent tech's, ohm walsh and acoustats. So there you go a variation of different designs but I don't favor one over the other, except poss... | |
| Cheap tweaks...What would YOU reccomend? I have my amplifiers and preamps on BRICKS or stone slabs which helps vibration. I also use the controversial dakiom feedback stabilizers for negative feedback vibrations. Room treatment is something I'm staying away from due to being too costly b... | |
| Where does your user name come from? My username is based on my MOS or job specialty in the U.S. ARMY when I first joined audiogon. Went back to infantry, so I should change it again? | |
| Is no preamp the best preamp of all? I have an oppo bdp 95 too, but my grant fidelity cd 427 tube cdp player is my reference. I actually tried not using a preamp as far back as the 80's with a yamaha M 80 and it sounded flat. I guess on some equipment it works better simply because o... | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Leonardo da vinci should be mentioned regarding history and then thomas edison, benjamin franklin and of course, GEORG OHM, the german physicist in 1827 who came up with ohm's law! Dr. oskar heil, I like bob carver, conrad johnson, nelson pass, Ji... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? I can't afford the many tube amps, preamps and including solid state or FET amps the fortunate members here have and I ENVY all of you for having awesome amps and preamps. I'm happy to have my CARVER/SUNFIRE AMPS since I am a carver fan. My future... |