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| Most enduring audio purchase Quad old ESL's. | |
| Help picking a tube preamp, please Don't ya love asking for suggestions of tube pre-amps to check out, and getting lectured on the obsolescence of tube pre-amps?! | |
| Speaker Set Up...Math/Geometry Experts Please Help Even after you tilt the speaker cabinet back, the resulting time-alignment is good for only one listening height, is it not? Does anyone sit exactly the same height the whole time they are listening to music?! | |
| Brands w/ first order x-over, time & phase aligned Eminent Technology's LFT-8b crosses over from it's 8" cone woofer to it's Magnetic-Planar midrange panel at 180 Hz, via a symmetrical first-order crossover. That panel hands off to the speaker's Magnetic-Planar tweeter strip at 10K, also first order. | |
| Quad ESL 57 with subwoofer The best sub for any dipole is an OB. In the 70's a company named Gradient made one for the ESL63, with two 12 inch drivers facing in opposite directions in an OB "H-frame". A company named GR Research now offers a similar design, but with the add... | |
| What sub under a grand? You can get a new Rythmik F15 for under 1K, plus shipping. An F12 is even less. | |
| ESL's to Monitors The Eminent Technology monitors are well worth hearing. Planar Magnetic midrange and tweeter, cone bass. Better than Maggies! | |
| How can I drive a very large passive subwoofer? I have a DQ-LP1 to sell. It's in excellent condition, factory stock with manual. If interested (pics available) you can contact me (ericjerde@gmail.com). | |
| Help me spend $3000 on a used amp Music Reference RM200. It has balanced inputs, 100w/ch. | |
| Need recommendations to replace ARC VT100 MkII For a low maintenance tube power amp with great sound, look into the Music Reference RM200. Its tubes are mounted on the amps chassis, not circuit boards. Very bad idea, ARC. | |
| Got big amp-help with 20A line and receptacle Contact any of the makers of "audiophile" grade outlets (PS Audio, Shunyata, etc.). | |
| Granite surface plate A high-mass paving stone sitting on top of an under-inflated bicycle tire is another old idea (first proposed by Frank Van Alstine in the early 80's). | |
| Alternative for VPI springs? I have a pair of the Sims new in a blister pack if you are interested. It would take me a while to dig them out of whichever box I put them in when I moved out of my house in '08. | |
| Which Amplifier for Sonus Faber Olympica 3 Speaker Given the balance of the speakers and their impedance characteristics, look into the Music Reference RM200 tube amp. | |
| will new Beatles mono lp's require a mono setup A mono cartridge is optimum, but a pre-amp's mode switch set to mono will do. |