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| Does anyone else think this It's not just younger people. In 2003 I reunited with an old friend I hadn't seen since '79, and upon seeing the pair of Infinity RS-1b's I had at the time he said "Ya know, people don't have big speakers anymore". To which I replied "They never d... | |
| Bright & fast speaker cables with great imaging ? Clear Day Double Shotgun silver speaker cables. $500/8 ft. list, $450 discounted by designer/maker. I got mine used for $250. | |
| Hybrid SACDs or CDs for Redbook Playback One way to look at it is thusly: The improved sound you will enjoy later from the SACD layer makes sacrificing any possible better sound the CD layer affords now worthwhile. | |
| Subjectivity As Pertains To Preamp Comparisons There is another possible explanation. The original reviewer's perception of the Belles may very well have been "influenced" by it's price point, and heard it as performing only to that price. If he knew other, more experienced listeners perceived... | |
| LS50 and Big Fat Dots Exactly Geoffkait. In Barry's writings he describes the roller bearing as an isolator in the horizontal/lateral plane, and a coupler in the vertical. He makes the argument that most vibration travels horizontally, the waves moving across the floor... | |
| What is your recommendation on upgrading a Linn LP I've known a few younger, naïve audiophiles who bought the whole Linn propaganda manifesto. Wonder if their close audio buddies ever did an intervention ;-). | |
| ESS and Heil air-motion tranformer - any thoughts? Before ESS introduced the Heil AMT, they already had a line of really good speakers using KEF drivers. The way Dr. Heil and ESS hooked up was that the Doctor came into the ESS dealer in San Jose (TV-Audio Center, Inc. I was a customer of theirs.) ... | |
| How important is bass to you? I'm with you 100% Tostadosunidos. Getting the low bass out of the main speakers improves their sound (less doppler distortion, for one thing), as well as the sub being better at bass to begin with (assuming it's a good one!). It's getting the inte... | |
| Greatest Rock Guitar Riffs "Money (That What I Want)" by Barrett Strong. If you like The Beatles version, wait until you hear the original (if you haven't already). Much "tougher", with wicked, killer guitar tone! | |
| RCA Shorting Plugs vs Caps non-shorting ? At one of the Bill Johnson in-store appearances I attended, he told the story of a problem caused by shorting plugs. ARC had sent a pre-amp (SP-10?) to Harry Pearson for review, and soon heard from him as he was having an issue with it. The proble... | |
| LS50 and Big Fat Dots For an interesting take on component isolation (including speaker supports), go to the Barry Diament Audio site, under "Articles", then "Vibration control for better performance". Barry is a proponent of the "roller bearing" theory. | |
| How important is bass to you? Very few musicians are even close to being audiophiles, many of them liking loudspeakers that sound like P.A.'s. The JBL L-100 was popular with them in the 70's (the band house I lived in in '71 had a pair of Altec A-7's---our P.A.---in the living... | |
| Best Option In A Tube Preamp $1,800 Or Less - Used And there is an SP-16 available on Audiogon right now, at a good price. | |
| Has anyone heard the new Rega RP10? Since Rega's are almost suspensionless (their rubber feet are pretty ineffectual), what they sit on greatly effects their sound. A good isolation shelf (a Symposium Acoustics Segue Iso, Townshend Audio Seismic Footers, or even a DIY inner tube und... | |
| How important is bass to you? Every time I enter a club in which live music is already being performed, I am struck by how much more bass is in the room than what I hear in the listening rooms of audiophiles (including my own) and hi-fi shops. A lot of that is due to the multi... |