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| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? Go for it Frogman. It's a free country and I don't own this thread. I'd like to read your thoughts too. :-)And ... , Charles1dad's Q is not really so far off point because it indirectly touches on a related aspect of speaker selection. That is the... | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? I think the discussion about so called "live" music being a gold standard reference is ok by me and I find the discussion interesting. So by all means, please continue. But since I am the OP, I would like to add my thoughts and then "seg" back to ... | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? I think Mapman's advice makes a lot of sense too. And St114_nj, I posted a comment a little earlier that jives with what you said. Once one hits a certain level, incremental improvements require a lot more due diligence and effort. My comment also... | |
| Heads Up: ARC is introducing the new SP-20 in Fall Chris -- were the RS speakers the electrostats? If so, I remember those speakers too. They were spectacular. | |
| How to meaningfully audition speakers?? Great post Liz. I like the way you summed it up: "And if you go and buy [the speakers] online to save a few bucks after using the store to audition. Then you are a bad person." I agree 100% with that view ... and that really is my dilemma. I try t... | |
| Speaker's magnetic field and pacemaker Sorry if my Q is off topic, but it's kind of related. I have a 48" Panasonic plasma TV which has extremely strong magnets in it -- I think near the bottom of the screen for sure. Could be elsewhere too. The TV sit on top of an entertainment cabine... | |
| Speaker's magnetic field and pacemaker I agree with one half of what Albert just posted. I don't know squat about magnetic fields and pacemakers. But I agree that some of the album pics of my favorite lady artists make my heart skip, like Linda Ronstadt's pic on Living in the USA. Lind... | |
| Heads Up: ARC is introducing the new SP-20 in Fall The SP-20 looks like a knockout piece. I too would be interested to hear read comments from folks who demoed it. By the way, my old eyes aren't what they used to be. Can anyone identify the speakers in Marc Mickelson pic?? The amps look like Ref 2... | |
| Thorens TD 160 HUM Agree with Zd... I used to own a TD 160. I had bad hum problems. If you're handy, try replacing the tone arm cables yourself with new quality cables. | |
| Child-Proof Speakers Shumazing, being a young father a while ago with crawling peanuts, my response is that your question is an oxymoron -- there ain't no such thing as child=proof anything. I used to call one of my babies the "finder of all lost things" because he wo... | |
| An interesting experiment Cymbop +5 re Al for President. My next comment is not intended to be technical response because I am not a EE. To the extent Al and Oferi are speaking about input/output impedance matching, I kinda tripped into that issue a while back. Most ARC li... | |
| Do I esentially have a class A amp? Kijanki, Could you translate the paragraph you wrote into English please, particularly the phrases framed with double astericks (**):"Such amp will have 0.5% THD and perhaps only 50kHz bandwitdh not to mention **relatively high output impedance.**... | |
| Linda Ronstadt can't sing anymore. Agree 100% Donjr!! | |
| Do I esentially have a class A amp? Kijanki, there have been many threads which speak to the trade-offs of using NF. Certainly, Ralph (Atmasphere) has written quite a bit about NF. Just curious, does it matter how the NF is applied: local or global. For example, my amp uses a form o... | |
| Phillips no longer producing transports Spoke to Kal, ARC Customer Service Tech Rep, today. He reported that ARC is aware of the issue but seemed unconcerned, even with the advent of the new Ref CD-9 which uses the Pro 2. Kal said that ARC has more than enough Pro 2 transports in stock ... |