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| I need bass I agree with the many others that suggest a sealed sub. Beware of REL many of their models have a passive radiator which can have disastrous effects on low mid clarity. checkout Soundoctor.com white papers for some excellent information about subs... | |
| Best Way to Integrate Subwoofers? Thanks newtoncr for your post. I could never understand why audiophiles are so against crossovers. Your link to http://www.soundoctor.com/whitepapers/subs.htm is greatly appreciated. I found it very informative and reaffirming. | |
| Did Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" blow up my woofer? Hey Jayy42I spent many years in live audio and have blown up more woofers than I care to remember. When ever we thought we had possibly blown a speaker our first test was always to push back and forth on the paper cone with our finger tips. If the... | |
| Strange turntable/speaker issue I have or actually had the exact same issue with my turntable.Within the past couple of days I installed a Kiseki cartridge in my 1979 era Sony turntable with a SME 3009 arm replacing an old audio technica cartridge from 1984, and experienced exce... | |
| Who makes great active preamps ? Tube or solid state or hybrid. I concur with markus1299.Atma-Sphere MP-1 or MP-3 | |
| Clearaudio Turntables Thanks everyone.I appreciate your responses and you have all been very helpful. | |
| Please help me clean up this stupid speaker cable mistake I maybe showing my ignorance here and I do not know anything about Magico speakers but every binding post style of speaker connector I have ever seen has a hole in it so you can insert an unterminated wire through the hole. Can't you simply remove... | |
| MC suggestions I just purchased a Kiseki Blue after auditioning cartridges at my local dealer. They recommend four different cartridges that they thought would work well with my system. They mounted the ones that weren't already on demo turntables and we compare... | |
| Best LPs to Test Turntables I was auditioning cartridges yesterday and I used the the first minute or so of "Time" from Dark Side of the Moon. You can learn a lot from all those ringing clock chimes. If I want to test a systems low end I use about the first four minutes of "... | |
| DAC's and external portable hard drives My computer is a newer MAC. I believe the wi-fi signal will reach the media room. I mostly listen to vinyl or CD's. My digital tracks are stored in iTunes and I then transfer them to a seagate HD so I can listen to them in my car and I have a few ... | |
| DAC's and external portable hard drives Could you give me some names of DACs that do.Thanks | |
| Pre amps cost vs. value ... what I discovered last month. Nothing is perfect or repeatable in music playback across rooms, time, temperature, pressure, etc. Translation means that something has it’s integrity in ALL playback forums. There is no one perfect playback situation. As far as "flat" this and "f... | |
| John Prine A buddy of mine and I were riding around in his old rust bucket Chevy Nova II one night back in the mid seventies. Just a couple of teenagers with no place to go and no one to see. John was playing two shows at one of the local colleges. We decide... | |
| Home audio system recommendations You have some interesting requirementsYeah, Live audio will do that to you.but the amplifiers can really be anything.This was kinda what I was thinking, but in reading through a different thread in the forum where some guys were stating that some ... | |
| Home audio system recommendations The room can and will probably change. The current room is 10' x 14'. I don't want to influence responses at this time by stating a budget. The current plan is to assemble the system over time by scouring the secondary market. Having said that if ... |