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| Is high end audio to snooty for its own good? I always found Jonathan Scull more than a little pretentious. Ol' Harry Pearson himself as well, at times. | |
| Amps which are Great, but either Unknown or Underpriced BEL, Music Reference. | |
| When is your Hifi good enough? A system is good enough for me (as for others who have said the same here and elsewhere) when I find myself completely absorbed, consumed, and inhabited by the music---becoming one with it, rather than thinking about the sound of it. Good equipmen... | |
| Your three favorite audio dealerships? I don't know about audio shops in Austin jafant, but Rythmik Audio, maker of great subwoofers, is. So is Cornell Hurd and his band, a Western Swing/Hard Country singer/songwriter friend of mine. Go see and hear him some time! | |
| Dealer selling B stock doesn't tell customers Then there is this: I don't know if ARC still does this, but they did in the early 90's, and is what got me questioning their ethics. When the LS2 Mk.2 was discontinued, my local ARC dealer had a few "Factory Reconditioned" units available at the ... | |
| Proportion of expenses Agree 100% Wolf. In fact, very few (and very expensive) speakers don't benefit from a superior sub. A pair of modestly priced main speakers and sub(s) can outperform a "full"-range speaker (very few speakers actually provide low-distortion, sub-35... | |
| Proportion of expenses "a good system should be able to play all of it (music) well within its power and speaker driver limits". Well of course---"should be" is right! And if one has enough dough, the choice between, say, maximum SPL and amount of bass, versus, for inst... | |
| ARC VT100MK2 substitute cyrrix, there is an amp you may be interested in because of it's great sound and low tube cost. It is the Music Reference RM-200 (or RM-200 Mk.2). It produces 100w/ch from only two KT-88's per channel. That much power is not the result of running ... | |
| Favourite Demo and Sampler CDs, LPs and Downloads Not to be contrary, but I prefer to use music with which I am intimately familiar, which has been recorded in good sound, as demo material. | |
| Suspensions on turntable...really effective? By the way, Diamondears, a spring need not be a metal coil---air can also function as a spring. A DIY isolation platform can be made by placing a barely-inflated inner tube (the lower the pressure, the lower the spring rate/resonant frequency) bet... | |
| SVS to JL Audio A good comparison---both excellent subs. Another in their class is the Rythmik F15HP, which HAS been compared to the SB13 Ultra. I don't recall where I saw the comparison, but of course a Google search will bring it up | |
| Suspensions on turntable...really effective? Diamonddears, I'm no mechanical engineer, but a spring has a resonant frequency (it's "rate"), above which it isolates whatever is sitting on it from whatever the spring itself is sitting on, and below which it does not---the mechanical energy pas... | |
| Proportion of expenses I hate to be first, but I just happened to log on and find this, so here goes:The common wisdom is to start with the source and work your way downstream. The further upstream in a system, the more important the quality, as what is not passed on fr... | |
| What do you do when you live hours from nowhere Where ARE you located? I've wondered what it would be like to be in, say, Montana, or N. Dakota. Then again, for all I know there are thriving pockets of underground activity in unlikely places! | |
| Bob Dylan MoFi Shadows in the Night is the first Dylan album I have not bought upon release since I started buying his in '68 (John Wesley Harding), and I have no intention of ever doing so. I don't care for that style of music, or Sinatra. No offense, Sinatra l... |