avanti1960
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| Mac MA 352 vs Pass INT-60 @howardlee you may like the Pass better but neither are ultimate destinations. mac makes incredible amplifiers but their preamp and preamp sections are not so great and imho gives people the impressions they have have about the brand. put a cl... | |
| Turntable Quandry You are wasting your Chinook phono stage with that Ortofon 2M black cartridge. Get a Low Output Moving Coil cartridge with 0.3 mv gain compatible with the Chinook at 60db. The Dynavector DV20X2L cartridge will work great and sound so much cleane... | |
| Who positions their speakers straight ahead (zero tow in) and why. I do not for two reasons- 1) I like a big i-max like sound stage and space my speakers wide a'la Audio Note and then aim them inward to fill in the sound stage. 2) My current speakers are a bit softer sounding and like to be aimed so you can s... | |
| Vacuum Tube Preamp for Solid State Power Amp Pairing My recommendation would be for the 6SN7 based preamp the Cary Audio SLP-98L. Beautiful unit with remote power supply chassis and an uncanny realistic tone quality but I fear the gain would be too much for the Chord amp and the Rothwell attenuator... | |
| Tweaking Your Speaker Placement @rubicon15 How many blatant flaws and red flags can you spot in that Sumiko video? | |
| Main speaker placement- fundamentally wrong? Evolution is a designer now? How many ears did we start with and where were they positioned? | |
| Can you damage your speakers by plugging bass port vent? @ether no damage for sure but be aware that not all ported speakers are designed to be plugged. Unless your speakers came with plugs originally chances are they are not. It depends on physical properties of the woofer suspension stiffness and tr... | |
| Main speaker placement- fundamentally wrong? I thank God for putting our ears on the sides of our head. It helps so we can hear all around us and can tell where sounds are coming from. Lets us appreciate the spatial qualities of live and recorded music. | |
| Audio stores near Bloomington/Normal Illinois? See Geoff at Glen Poors. Settle in and listen to some decent gear. | |
| Which subwoofer should I get? @mwsl For your speakers I would recommend avoiding subwoofers and letting them run as they are. They have 3 x 9 inch woofers and response down to 25Hz driven by a robust powerful amplifier. Unless you want to high pass filter your main speakers... | |
| Upgrade from Revival Atalante 5s A recent review mentions that the A5s are indeed amplifier sensitive. He tried 3 different amplifiers and was kappy with the sound of only one. This mirrors my experience hearing them at AXPONA using a very good push pull tube amp. They demoe... | |
| Question on Speaker Placement @mysterioso1 If you measured the frequency response of each speaker independently at your listening position they would show huge differences, mainly in the bass to midrange regions. It may sound ok, but each speaker is broadcasting a very diff... | |
| What to fill Skylan stands with for Harbeth SHL5s I filled my Skylans with cat litter. Worked very well. I | |
| Current or Previous Harbeth Owners… It's a matter of picking which poison you can live with. What Harbeth does well- a fatigue free sound with very good detail, vocal timbre and tonal realism and a superb midrange- I have not heard another speaker that sound better in those areas. ... | |
| DeVore O/93 or PureAudioProject Duet15 for a First Watt SIT-3? @fsonicsmith I have had the Spendor D7.2 for almost three years and the D7 before the. They are simply not a boring speaker- at all. They resolutely track lightening fast transient rhythms literally better and with more refinement than horn sp... |