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Speaker Recommendations - from Vandersteen 5As
@mr_m come on, just book a fight now with all the rewards miles you have been hoarding!   
Speaker Recommendations - from Vandersteen 5As
OK gentlemen, Who can make the last Saturday in August the 31st to meet a Audio Connection?  I need to know whom will be coming so that I can work out the details with Johnny R.  I will buy the pizza. 
My Thoughts re: Dealers Posting on Audiogon
@br3098 thanks for that info.  I understand where you might have been coming from as a dealer,  Happy Listening. 
My Thoughts re: Dealers Posting on Audiogon
@br3098  my questions since you were a dealer at one time are:1 were you an honest dealer or only pushed your products2  why did you decide to carry one brand over another were you trying to offer the best products you heard or something else3 do ... 
1973
In high school my friends brother was at MIT and he helped us design what we called Bose 1801s Twice the size of the originals. He calculated the interior volume etc., and we build those suckers. Had a realistic 18 band EQ and we had them suspende... 
Speaker Recommendations - from Vandersteen 5As
@gdnrbob if John will allow that, we could do that or I can give you one of the prototypes for you to take home and listen. What are you using as a source transport or something else?  Remember that we are playing in a much higher price point with... 
Help Need CD player for about 2k to 3k
Naim, YBA and Electrocomp are very good recommendations in that price range. 
Mods/repairs to CEC TL-51 belt drive transport?
@pmboyd I am in New Jersey and can do the install and upgrades if that helps you. I have owned a few CEC units and currently I am replacing the laser on a TL-5100z 
What Sonically is the Difference between a $1,500 CD Player and a $10K-$25K One?
Price does not indicate the design and parts quality.  I can make a great looking chassis and put crap inside and sell it for much more that a cardboard box chassis.  But I can also make a product and put it into a cardboard box that would also so... 
Speaker Recommendations - from Vandersteen 5As
@gbnrbob I can bring anything you guys want to hear.  Johnny R has heard my DAC. 
How do I smooth out violins?
Get a better source and add ac filter chokes to your preamp and amp! 
Speaker Recommendations - from Vandersteen 5As
OK who wants to meet at JohnnyR's the week of August 25th?  What day and time?@audioconnection @ctsooner @twoleftears @gdnrbob 
Speaker Recommendations - from Vandersteen 5As
@audioconnection Johnny will you be getting in the new model Vandersteen that sort of replaces the model 5s?  I think the name is Kento??? 
Speaker Recommendations - from Vandersteen 5As
Thanks JohnnyR.  I sold the homebrew non-battery bias hi-pass units when I sold the 5s.  I am using the original Vandersteen filters that I have always owned.  When I had the 5s we compared the homebrewed to the originals and the originals did not... 
Alon I info
Contact Nola for info on the Alon speakers. Bill Legal at Miller Sound in PA knows the speakers and will refoam them for you.