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| Subwoofer for Wilson Maxx2 Dear Richard I never, never, never use a crossover to any main music speakers.The idea is to bring up the sub to just start to add a pressure wave to the leading and trailing edges of the notes produced by the mains.11 feet into the room may be th... | |
| Subwoofer for Wilson Maxx2 Dear Richard,I hate to disagree but you are totally wrong.I worked for Sound by Singer, in their glory Wilson years and I was in fact the top Wilson salesman in the country for most of that time, Mark Goldman would bear that out. As an experiment ... | |
| Speaker cables for Wilson Sophia 3 Your assessment of the KEF vs the Wilson's is interesting, but if your KEF's weren't producing enough bass then the KEF's would sound thin and bright. Personally I think the Kef's image better and are more coherent than the Wilson's. The 205.2 are... | |
| small companies making today's best products Dear Elizabeth, I got from your answer, you don't like dealers. !The fact that most of the guys on Audiogon, are ever changing equipment striving to get a good sounding system makes me disgusted with the bargain mentality that values price over kn... | |
| small companies making today's best products Hey guys, I can give you both sides of the argument.I am a dealer and when I stared my company I could not get many of the larger companies and so was forced to sell many of the smaller companies products.Over the years I have had many companies t... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 HDR vs Esoteric SA-50 There is no comparison, the Benchmark is a decent dac, but no where near the class of the SA 50, I had a customer trade in a Benchmark and I listened to it, when it came out a few years ago it was ahead of the pack, today, it is a decent sounding ... | |
| EMM-Labs XDS1 vs Esoteric K-01 We received our K03 which I wanted to evaluate before we took the plunge for the K01. I have been in professional audio sales for 25 years previously working for Sound by Singer and Innovative Audio, and I have heard almost every uber expensive pi... | |
| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs Dear Radio Head, you missed the point, the fact that the reviewer bought the unit, doesn't mean necessarily that he is buying it just because the sound is good, bad or indifferent.The problem with reviewers is they don't play by the same rules whi... | |
| McIntosh and Brystons: Fair comparison ? I have to agree with many of the points raised.The autotransformer is a cheat, designed to match the speaker load to the load of the amplifier. This must be done due to the impedance mismatch which occurs when a high output impedance device tubes ... | |
| I'm convinced: my Power Conditioner was ruining... I have been in the industry for 20 years, and good power conditioning can make a huge improvement, but bad power conditioning can suck the life right out of a system.I heard a demo of a $2,000.00 Richard Gray vs $4,000.00 worth of Monster power co... | |
| Thiel CS3.7 vs WP8? I like the WP, I do not think it is the holy grail, and I do think there are way less expensive speakers that are really great such as the top of the line Ushers.I have always felt that the Thiels are transparent but lack warmth, and are somewhat ... | |
| Thiel CS3.7 vs WP8? The WP are far better sounding and are way better built than the Thiels. | |
| What should I upgrade? You need one Jl Audio F 113 or two of the smaller F 112 which are magnificent subwoofers.Your room is huge, and the Maggies 1.6 are really too small for this size room 3.6 would be better,More power couldn't hurt either it depends on how loud you ... | |
| AMR new product - PH-77 phono stage Buconero, you are way off. The AMR CD 77 has discreet analog everything except for the DAC which is of course a chip.The Phono stage is all discreet components and an impressive all NOS tube output stage. A chip in an device such as this can be us... | |
| New Distributor for Audio Aero?? Audio Aero still exists they just were at the Munich show, they might be on Summer vacation which is something which a lot of European companies do. |