bdp24
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| Is Vinyl Worth It I never got used to CD's having only "one side". LP's were programmed as two separate sides, the songs and their relationship to the other songs on their one side being a complete experience unto itself. When older albums are put on CD with the tw... | |
| Cheap/free tweak of the Magneplanar 1.7s, etc. Let me add that the mass of the sand just stabilizes the panels, keeps them from swaying fore and aft. When I had stacked Quads, I put spikes on the tops of the stands I had made for them as well as the bottoms, and secured the spikes to the ceili... | |
| Cheap/free tweak of the Magneplanar 1.7s, etc. Yeah Johnny, four bags, one for the front and one for the rear of each speaker leg. That would take care of one speaker, so eight bags for a pair. You could make each bag 25 lbs, even. I used material that looked like felt on one side and velvet o... | |
| CD quality versus SA-CD ?is it worth it? If you can come up with another $200, there is an Esoteric DV-50s, a really good older CD/SACD/DVD player, on Audiogon right now for $1200. | |
| Cheap/free tweak of the Magneplanar 1.7s, etc. You can buy a 100 lb. bag of silica sand for under $10 at building supply yards. Buy two bags, put half of each in homemade cloth bags, and put a bag on each of the 1.7's legs, front and rear. Four 50 lb. bags for under $20, ya can't beat it. The ... | |
| Dynaco PAS-4 preamp I stand corrected--my apologies! | |
| Sound Lab vs Magnepan 20.7 Which Sound Labs? In general, SL's (and ESL's in general) are more liquidly transparent and higher in resolution than Magneplanars. But a lot of people really like the ribbon tweeter in the 20.1. Maggies need to be above a certain volume threshold... | |
| Dynaco PAS-4 preamp There was no PAS-4. There was a PAS-3 (tube) and a PAT-4 (transistor). May be that's why there's not much info out there on the PAS-4! | |
| HiFiMAN HE-1000s. Those who still have their old Stax phones will never need new ones. | |
| Interesting Article Wolf, if your Sgt. Pepper is from the new Mono series, it is NOT from a digital master, but from the 4 track analog masters! | |
| Quality pre amps with home theater by-pass The Audio Research line stages of the last twenty or so years have processor pass-through inputs. | |
| Interesting Article Some of the "facts" in the article sound specious to me. Better run this by Fremer. | |
| Segue ISO vs. Seismik Sink pods? I've been catching up on my reading, looking into HRS and others. But last night I hit pay dirt---the Minus K vibration isolator. Not cheap, but neither are the Ultra and HRS. | |
| Segue ISO vs. Seismik Sink pods? The Seismic Pods provide isolation down to a very low frequency (like 3Hz). The springs of the Segue ISO are also isolators, though to what frequency and with what suppression is not quantified on the Symposium website. Maybe I'll just have to get... | |
| What Determines The Amount Of "Current" In An Amp? Some speakers which dip to very low impedances at certain frequencies don't require lots of current, but rather an amp that is stable into a highly-reactive load that presents an almost dead-short operating condition, with, as Viridian mentioned, ... |