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| Sanders magtech or odyssey kismet All right, thanks. I've done some more digging, and it looks like there are different levels of Crowns these days, with different designs, power supplies, etc. The fan noise the Pro amps are notorious for possessing would rule one out for me anywa... | |
| Top Ten Rock Vocalists Brian Johnson was fine by me. But AR (I won’t even speak his name)?! | |
| Direction of aftermarket fuses (only for believers!) I’d like to hear from AC power cord designers/manufacturers. Do any of them test the wire they make their cords with for directionality? They can't simply be reversed by the user though, of course. | |
| Tube Phono Stage There is an Allnic 1201, held in high esteem by it's owners, available on Audiogon right now. Asking price $2100. | |
| Albums you can listen too all the way through and it's all good Me too, Ghost. There are also photo albums ;-). | |
| Top Ten Rock Vocalists I'm so dismayed that AC/DC, one of my favorite bands, is having AR be their new "singer". Damn it! | |
| What's going on with the audio market? As I feared. And I can’t really argue the point, or offer a defense, can I? But I did think it was related to the mention of the movie, and the decline in standards, both in terms of music systems/listeners, and America itself. Does that make me a... | |
| Sanders magtech or odyssey kismet That’s the kind of thing I’m wondering about Rodman. I have a PS Audio 200C that’s okay, but it’s "only" 200w/ch @ 8 ohms and 400 @ 4. I’ll try it first, but have been warned the Tympani’s can use and may require a lot more than that. Tympani afic... | |
| What's going on with the audio market? Absolutely jmc! Speaking of which, is it too much to ask for "to" and "too" to each be used where and when appropriate? They do mean different things, after all. I don’t want that to sound condescending or smug, but sheesh, c’mon man! | |
| Vandersteen 2xx - 100,000 units? And then there's the Quad 57. | |
| Sanders magtech or odyssey kismet Thanks, I believe I'll do that. I'm about to set up a pair of Tympani IV's, and am gonna need more amp! Only for the two bass panels, so the amp doesn't need a great midrange and high end. Maybe a Pro amp like a Crown will do. They're cheap. | |
| Albums you can listen too all the way through and it's all good A favorite subject of mine. Just off the top of my head:The Band (big surprise ;-): Music From Big Pink; S/T (the brown album)Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited; Blonde On Blonde; John Wesley Harding; Nashville Skyline. And that’s just in the 60’s!Jo... | |
| Relationship of amplifier sound to transformer quality? True for bass Don, but that compromises the highs. As in most things Hi-Fi, it's a balancing act. That's the art of transformer design. | |
| What are the best subwoofers to use with Magnepan 20.1s? Two points:- The Rythmik sub plate amp allows for high-level hook-up to binding posts (on the main speaker’s power amp), like Rel’s.- OB/Dipole subs (such as the GR Research/Rythmik), their figure-of-8 radiation pattern creating a null to each sid... | |
| sexiest sounding female vocalists? Yeah, agree with Lucinda and Kasey Chambers. Also Sam Phillips and Julie Miller. And, if I allow myself to admit, Shania Twain. Then there is Maria Muldaur ("Don't You Feel My Leg"!) and, perhaps surprisingly, Tammy Wynette. |