bishopwill
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| Retail vs. List Price A local salesperson buddy of mine routinely gives me 30% off list, sometimes more, never less.I've been told on what I consider good authority (though I have no proof) that my Mezzo Utopias that list for 14.9K sell to the dealer for just a bit und... | |
| A question from a neophyte audiophile It has to do with whether the audiophile buyer is or is not on psychotropic medication (yet).will | |
| Ceramic fuses..where to get 'em Find an old hardware store out in the country. In my case, it was one in southern Vermont. I bought a case of them. If you can't find a supply, email me privately and I'll send you a handful.will | |
| Acoustat HT system I once owned a pair and liked them very much. I agree with the duke, however, that they are not dynamic enough for HT.will | |
| Whatever happened to Acoustat? My son and my best friend both use Spectra 1100s and love them. Both have replaced the woofers and added subs but love the mids and highs. Not sure what happened to the company or what it would be like to try to find parts.will | |
| Barber's Adagio for Strings Have to disagree with Pragmatist re St. Louis/Slatkin. On the Telarc recording there are MAJOR problems with tuning and intonation in the violins that make the piece nearly unlistenable to my ears.Will | |
| Have you tried "doping" your speaker cones? Doping means applying any kind of liquid to the speaker cones to change their performance characteristics, not using airplane dope. Airplane dope is nitrocellulose dissolved in ether or other highly volatile solvent. It isn't stiff and the solvent... | |
| Weirdest Question asked when selling gear? Lest we conclude that only buyers make dumb remarks, here are a few of my fave statements made by sellers:"It has a few scratches and dings but you can't see them." (Huh?)"I sent it back to the factory for an upgrade." Which upgrade? "Uh, I'm not ... | |
| Have you ever collected on insurance???? I once shipped a painting to a buyer via UPS. It was double-boxed and otherwise packaged exactly in accordance with UPS recommendations. When it was delivered, the box had been pierced through-and-through by some object perhaps 4cm in diameter. Bu... | |
| Need help on speaker choice I owned a pair of Accustat 11s. The planar element is sweet, sweet, sweet.The bass module sucks, sucks, sucks.And the transition between them is like a fast ride down a rough country road.Will | |
| Best symphony recordings I second both nominations. In general, if you are shooting in the dark you can't go too far wrong with Solti/Chicago provided that you like the distinctive sound that he produced there--forward brasses, lots of emphasis on low sonorities, brisk te... | |
| Okay, the gloves are off. Let the fur fly Seems to me we are once again debating the question of listening to the sound versus listening to the music. I'll concede that good single-driver systems offer incremental improvements in midrange clarity and accuracy....but at the expense of cons... | |
| New thread about FedEX I'm fortunate never to have had a bad experience with FedEx Air. But last week I took a parcel to them and overheard the counter staff chatting about FedEx Ground. Their concensus was that FedEx Ground sucked majorly and that the air division was ... | |
| How many truly high-end speakers sold yearly? Paradigm is expanding hugely, too. Anyone heard any scuttlebutt re: (1) Their corporate plans for Sonic Frontiers and (2) rumors that they will shortly introduce a new "big gun" speaker? | |
| Nothing new under the sun? I tend to agree with Sean that we're making incremental refinements, in good part due to component improvements. This is certainly true in the digital domain.IMO, 90% of the overall improvement in mid-to-high end sound in the past 20 years has com... |