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| Boulder monoblock 2150 My last post has been percolating in my mind since I made it. I was uncomfortable with it’s tone, and knew it didn’t express what I was trying to. But as I was watching A Few Good Men on TV, my thoughts on the subject of hi-fi pricing crystalized.... | |
| Boulder monoblock 2150 I don't have a problem with an amplifier company offering a $99,000 amp, or a loudspeaker company offering a $685,000 speaker. What I don't like is a hi-fi mag reviewing them as if they're a product just like any other, only "somewhat" more expens... | |
| Why are low impedance speakers harder to drive than high impedance speakers Excellent clarification from Al, with more specifics. No surprise there! Timbre77, you missed the important qualifying adjective of the amplifier scenario I described---"tube". As Al stated, while the power solid state amps create increases with d... | |
| Solid State Amps for Quad ESL 57? Chris (ct0517), a man sharing my point of view, both figuratively and literally! I too prefer to look up at the stage, and find many, many loudspeakers to produce too low an image---as you said, a balcony perspective. | |
| RCA or XLR iInput Shorting Plugs or Pins Those Cardas RCA jack covers are just cosmetic---if the plugs aren’t shorting, they do nothing except keep dust off the RCA’s. Why does Cardas (and others) offer such a useless, ineffective product, if not to simply make money off vain, insecure a... | |
| Rythmik subwoofers? Yup yogiboy, it sure will. But it will provide only one slope---2nd order, 12dB/octave. And only two x/o frequencies, one at each switch position. You’ll need to specify those frequencies when you order the x/o from HSU. I doubt you can beat it fo... | |
| Rythmik subwoofers? Great report on the two 12" Rythmik/GR Research drivers, erndog. Both used the same basket, frame, motor, etc., the material of the cone being the only difference between the two. Rythmiks Brian Ding feels his aluminum cones greater stiffness affo... | |
| New maggie 1.7's ........ need help! The closer the panels are to the side walls, the better it is to have the tweeter strips on the inside---less sidewall reflection. Three feet from the wall behind the speakers is an absolute minimum, with five feet being much better. Five feet cre... | |
| Boulder monoblock 2150 What I noticed was the 2150's $99,000/pr price tag. I didn't read any further. This is getting ridiculous. | |
| Best reasonably priced SACD player? The Esoteric DV-50S that Norm just mentioned is built like a tank, and should last a lifetime. It weighs 47 lbs! They are occasionally available second-hand for about $1500 (originally $6000). | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? Ha! | |
| Rythmik subwoofers? topjetboy---The Rythmik F12 plate amp includes lots of controls (most importantly a phase control providing not a couple of settings, but a continuously variable range of 0-180 degrees, to allow time-alignment of speaker and sub electronically, wi... | |
| Your choice of the most "inert" cabinets ? Max Townshend molds his speaker cabinets from Plaster-of-Paris I believe. That's one reason they are not available in the U.S.A.---too heavy to ship from the U.K.! | |
| Worst Rock Band Ever !!!! Ah man, how could I have forgotten Iron Butterfly? Those first two albums are about as bad as it gets for me. And for narcissistic self-congratulatory music making, few bands are as bad as was Vanilla Fudge (except perhaps Journey). Absolutely dre... | |
| Isolation Feet for Garrard 301 wood plinth At their low price, Geoff Kait’s isolation springs are sure worth a shot. |