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| Speaker Break-In - What Physically Changes During Break-In To Enable Better Sound? Two key factor's regarding break-in why one should wait 60 to 100 hours.If you purchased a truly high end 3-way floor stander, where the crossover is on three separate boards, combined with very exotic drivers, then more time is needed for burn-in... | |
| Belles Greatest Integrated ever! The Virtuoso kclone...Black. I like components that disappear when the lights are low. | |
| Belles Greatest Integrated ever! The Virtuoso carmenc..You contacted me by email asking if Belles is really that great, based on your ownership of the Soloist-1 and Aria. David Belles is in a league of his own, designing both tube and solid state components for 30 years. Hes' currently 57 yea... | |
| Belles Greatest Integrated ever! The Virtuoso menosavy..To bad you are moving on from the Sierra's. The Aria integrated does not have enough power under the hood to bring the Sierra's up to their full potential. Amplifiers rated between two and three hundred watts per channel would be a bette... | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? amg56-Absolutely!! The Egyptian's did indeed create the first sub-woofer.In fact,the Kings' Chamber has the highest damping factor in human history, measured at 700,000. Phew! The sub-woofer inside the chamber measured 30x30 feet on all sides. The... | |
| Integrateds: Why do they all SUCK? My my..One of the highest quality integrated amps in the U.S., hand made in sunny California, just popped up on TMR, brand new, not used,50% off. The CODA CSiB. The V3 version. A real brute if you need a lot of muscle. 400 watts per side @ 8 ohms.... | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? There's no sincerity starting this thread whatsoever, and I ditto that this thread should be under the topic, tech talk, not amps-preamps. Its obvious whats really going on here. Of all people to bring up these tech issues regarding sonic performa... | |
| Belles Greatest Integrated ever! The Virtuoso 2chfreak..Well said. I miss the old Rotel line in the late 80's with their all black components with beautiful wood side panel's. Standard Hi-Fi, Seattle's first record store that opened up in 1941, now closed, was the first Rotel dealer in Seattl... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers There were rare moments back in the late 60's and early 70's where the fusion of drums and instruments blended so well together in a handful of live rock/blues concert's that will go down in history as the greatest concerts ever that not even Jimi... | |
| Anybody watch the Grammys tonight? 2chfreak..you nailed it. The dumbing down of America is correct. I haven't watched any award shows for years since those shows are nothing more than political arena's for moron's. What has caused this downhill slide during the past twenty years is... | |
| Speakers costing range of 2500-3500 per pair ctsooner.."Also, good luck when the company eventually fails"...HA! What a joke! Ascend Acoustics has a very strong following globally and have been in business for 11 years. David Fabrikant works an average of 12 hours a day at his production fac... | |
| Eric Clapton reveals this week of his declining health What has always amazed me about Clapton, is when he was 15 sneaking into the blues clubs around London, and his obsession with American blues at that age. Also, when he got his first electric guitar at the age of 17, and within 24 months he's rate... | |
| Eric Clapton reveals this week of his declining health pops..at the time the accident happened with Conor, there was a small party going on in the condo with about a dozen people present. Talk about reckless responsibility. Eric was just several blocks away at a recording studio, and when he got the n... | |
| Belles Greatest Integrated ever! The Virtuoso For the most part, many Audiophiles are preoccupied with whats on the radar, in the mags, and their demigod reviewer's they worship. If your an Audiophile/Musicphile with an intense passion for music, and your ongoing search in recent years has no... | |
| Eric Clapton reveals this week of his declining health I've always been convinced that Eric Clapton would not be alive today if it wasn't for his son, Conor, falling from the 49th floor window of Claptons condo in March, 1991. What a tragedy. Up to that point Eric was battling ongoing drug problems, a... |