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| What are the best subwoofers to use with Magnepan 20.1s? +1. Well said johnny, agree 100%. That continuously variable phase control is absolutely mandatory in a sub; the Rythmik plate amps have one as well. That, added to the Open Baffle/Dipole design of the GR Research/Rythmik Sub makes it a particular... | |
| FR64s & Orsonic Av-1s Effective mass ? An alternative way to get damping for the arm and/or Decca is to mount them on a Townshend Rock turntable, which has a damping trough at the headshell end of the arm. The Townshend damping system also reduces the Q of the arm/cartridge resonance. | |
| speaker coupling question A three-legged stand. | |
| What are the best subwoofers to use with Magnepan 20.1s? If you have a big enough room, there is nothing like a pair of Tympani panels, the T-IV or IVa. Make sure they have been to Magnepan to have their wires re-glued. | |
| suggestions on upgrading my system The SB13 Ultra is a real good sub. It's competition is the Rythmik F15HP. | |
| What are the best subwoofers to use with Magnepan 20.1s? The GR Research/Rythmik OB/Dipole Subwoofer. | |
| Bass traps - too many choices!! rockyboy, if you email ASC a diagram or pics of your room, they will send you a proposed treatment of that room using their products, free of charge. Start there. | |
| ( Vinyl) Your latest purchase and where? Slaw, that Them album is great! I saw Them in ’66, and they were really good live too. I don’t have the Remains LP, but I’ve heard some of their stuff, and know they were the opening act for The Beatles on their East Coast dates in ’66. Sundazed i... | |
| What's going on with the audio market? whart and fourwnds, great posts, all true. The people I see all around me are so distracted, thumbing on their smart phones while doing everything else, even in a movie theater! Sensory overload. Short attention spans, a general sense of anxiety, ... | |
| Bass traps - too many choices!! Just be aware that the efficiency of traps at absorbing bass frequencies is very low; it takes a lot of them, and the larger in diameter they are the lower in frequency are they effective to. I’m investigating the cost to build a room within a roo... | |
| Should I build plinths or screw spikes into cabinet? The Ingress are the best deal around in roller bearings. He now offers a version made to Barry Diament’s specs: a highly-polished single cup made of 7075 aluminum, with a large diameter, shallow bowl (the result of machining the shape of the bowl ... | |
| Bass traps - too many choices!! Sand?! Sand is pretty good at absorbing physical vibrations, but not acoustical ones. Honest! There are diagrams on the net of how to build a bass trap. Get yourself some chicken wire (not a solid cardboard tube---the sound has to be able to get i... | |
| What's going on with the audio market? Real Hi-Fi has always been the providence of a discriminating extreme minority. When I discovered it (via, once again, my friend Pete C.), no one else I knew cared; but then, they were for the most part musician’s, the least caring of all, general... | |
| Obscure bands Straitjackets bassist Pete Curry was the leader/guitarist/songwriter in The Halibuts, and LS record in his home studio, a pretty nice one with a 2" 3M recorder, Manley tube mic pre-amp, and Neuman, Sennheiser, and AKG mics. Pete and I grew up toge... | |
| Bass traps - too many choices!! Everybody claims their acoustical product is a bass trap; It ain’t true. Room tunes is just cloth-covered fiberglass, a joke at the prices Michael asks for them. I still have some. Owens Corning 703 Semi-Rigid panels are far better for eliminating... |