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| Magnepan vs. Martin Logan I've owned both, and sell yet another planar.I'll assume we're talking about hybrid Martin Logans, and leaving out the sadly discontinued CLS. In general, the Martin Logans have a bit better detail and better imaging. The Maggies have better coher... | |
| certin speaker makers harder to get dissounts fro Cj1capp,I carry roughly a dozen high-end electronics and loudspeaker lines. On paper the average mark-up is right at 40 points, but in practice it's less because in most cases I have to pay for shipping. I have one line that's at 50 points if I pa... | |
| Ultimate Amplifier for the next 20 Years Hi Ptheo -True Class A at 60 watts per channel is defintely not cool-running. Are you serious about needing a cool-running amp? If so, may I be so bold as to suggest that the best deal in the world on a product that does't meet your requirements m... | |
| taming female voice Something that can happen with two way loudspeakers is this:The radiation pattern of the woofer is quite narrow in the crossover region, while the radiation pattern of the tweeter is very wide. In fact, for equal on-axis sound pressure levels, the... | |
| center channel speakers --- low height I agree with Rives, and know several people who have gone from using a center channel to phantom center mode and prefer the latter. To widen the listening area in phantom center mode, you might try this: Toe your left and right main speakers in se... | |
| BEST BALANCED XLR TUBE PREAMP FOR JC-1 MONOS? I'm using an Atma-Sphere MP-3 with JC-1s right now and think it's a great combination. I am a dealer for both. If you go with the MP-3, be sure to opt for the regulated power supply option. Sonically it will meet your criteria, but it does not hav... | |
| New book on "Audio, Acoustics and Perception" Just an update - the first three chapters of Earl's book are online now. The third chapter, "Psychoacoustics", is especially relevant.http://www.gedlee.com/audio.htmDuke | |
| High Pass a hard-to-drive speaker - Now Easy???? Typically it's the woofer that sets the system efficiency. Taking a low-efficiency system and high-passing it at 80 Hz won't change the efficiency. Depending on what the impedance curve looks like, once highpassed the speaker may or may not presen... | |
| Emm Labs CDSD transport and other DACs. Hi David,I recently became an EMM Labs dealer, and if I get the chance I'll play around with several combinations. I can understand your curiosity - here's this killer transport, what else can we do with it? I may have the chance to try it with a ... | |
| Bob Crump passes away over holiday. Bob told me once that his company was originally called Throbbing Gristle Audio, as mentioned in the asylum thread (link provided above). Apparently he had a customer who wanted to make a substantial purchase, but the customer's wife was offended ... | |
| Bob Crump passes away over holiday. Brian Walsh, close friend of Bob Crump and definitely one of the good guys, has arranged for Bob's traditional Friday evening party at CES to live on as the Bob Crump Memorial Beer and Pizza Party. Kickoff is at 6 PM on Friday the 6th of January, ... | |
| Parasound Halo JC1 mono amps and Merlin VSM-MX My impression is that Merlins tend to sound their best with high-output-impedance tube amps, in particular OTL's (SET's tend to not be powerful enough). I have a couple of friends with Merlins, one of whom has experimented extensively with amplifi... | |
| Bob Crump passes away over holiday. 'Til we meet again, my friend.http://www.audiokinesis.com/ces03/images/P1010100.jpg | |
| What Is Best Monoblocks For Around $10,000 Used? I think the Pass X600 is an excellent amplifier. I've never been less than impressed with its bass. It's even better sounding than their X1000. The X600 is virtually a Class A amplifier; the first 120 or so watts are Class A, so in normal use it o... | |
| List speakers thast can be put cloeto rear wall Programmergeek did an excellent job of summarizing the problems wall placement gives rise to. Nicely done. If you can stand the width, the Snell Acoustics Type A (sadly discontinued) was made to go up against the wall, and it was among the finest ... |