bdp24
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| Speakers need to be placed close to back wall. Help At the risk of coming off as a dick, allow me to inform you that the wall behind the loudspeakers is actually the front wall, not the rear. The wall your listening position faces is front, right? Unless you listen with your back to the speakers! I... | |
| Great service from HSU Research CONSUMER ALERT! Don't buy any of the old HSU models which contain woofers with foam surrounds. The foam runs to dust in no time (at least in the SoCal air), and replacement woofers cost more than the subs are worth. | |
| Maggie 20.7's and Tweeters Your amp is clipping, a very common cause of tweeters being destroyed; I myself have done it ;-(. All Magneplanars require huge amounts of current, the 20.7 the most of all models (but not more than the woofer panels of my Tympani-T-IVa!). Take a ... | |
| Eminent Technology 8b Speakers - Amp/wattage Recommendations VERY interesting. Thanks @jwr159. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @mammothguy54: Yeah, Music On Vinyl is a terrible reissue label. Everyone here should avoid all their LP's. I'm surprised Acoustic Sounds is selling them. The MoFi A Salty Dog was $35 when released, but as with all MoFi's the price skyrocketed wh... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bslon: Is your A Whiter Shade Of Pale LP (A fantastic album!) a "stereo" pressing? I put stereo in quotes because the original U.S.A. A & M pressing was a "Reprocessed For Stereo" (fake stereo) only release. For that reason we Procol Harum fa... | |
| VPI Scout 1.1 parts to upgrade HW~19 I was relying on memory when I stated the Mk.3 HW-19 has a steel subchassis rather than a stainless steel one. At my age that is ill-advised. ;-) I knew VPI had replaced the steel plate with a stainless steel one, but I mistakenly though it was in... | |
| Eminent Technology 8b Speakers - Amp/wattage Recommendations I don’t yet know anything about the new ET woofer system for the LFT-8, but unless it’s a dipole design I can’t see how it will be as good a mate as is any dipole sub (including the Rythmik Audio/GR research OB). Magnepan is working on a "concept... | |
| Does a REL subwoofer make the speakers' job easier? I was amending my above post, and ran out of time before fully completing my thoughts. As we know, a continuously-variable phase control is very uncommon on subwoofers. All the control on the Rythmik subs does is provide either no delay, or up to... | |
| Does a REL subwoofer make the speakers' job easier? @gladmo: I time after after time see and hear people laud REL for their high-level connection design. Well, Brian Ding provides both high-level AND line-level connections in the non-XLR/Standard Size versions of the plate amp of his Rythmik Audio ... | |
| Eminent Technology 8b Speakers - Amp/wattage Recommendations There is a new listing on USAM for a Music Reference RM-200 MK.2, asking price $3,000. The amp has been Michael Fremer's "reasonably-priced" reference tube amp for about 20 years. Roger Modjeski's engineering brilliance allowed him to produce 100 ... | |
| 80 years old - Paul McCartney & Brian Wilson Jerry Lee Lewis has somehow managed to make it to 87 (so far), and can still out-drink Keith Richards. | |
| VPI Scout 1.1 parts to upgrade HW~19 The matter of the different bearings and platters VPI used on the various incarnations of the HW-19, Aries, and TNT tables is a little convoluted, and can be confusing. But first, the Mk.3 HW-19 does NOT have a stainless steel sub-platter, it has... | |
| Eminent Technology 8b Speakers - Amp/wattage Recommendations @jrw159: One thing to know about open baffle woofers is that because of their inherent dipole cancellation characteristic (the front and rear waves meeting on either side of the open baffle frame, the opposite polarity waves causing a drop off in ... | |
| Eminent Technology 8b Speakers - Amp/wattage Recommendations @jwr159: I’ve been away from home for a coupla weeks, and have been playing catch-up, just now seeing your thread. First, congratulations on your new speakers! And on your good taste ;-) . The ET LFT-8b is an outrageous bargain, imo one of the bes... |