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| To bi or not to bi-wire Spendor S8e I suggest doing a blind test at a dealer to determine your answer if possible. I've experimented w/my Spendors w/the stock jumpers, biwires, etc. and have found that they all sound the same. BTW, some very knowledgable dealers demo their products ... | |
| What new tubes for Cary SLI-80 and where to get? I don't own the SLI-80, but I recently went through what you are about to undertake. I blew a factory supplied EL34 on my amp and was forced to start doing research. I recommend doing enough research to get a clear idea of how different tube brand... | |
| Thiel CS 2.4 Vs. Harbeth M40? These are two very diferent speakers. The Harbeth has a more romantic sound, is warmer, and sounds fuller (like real music does in front of the orchestra). The Thiel is more a design from the head. If I had the change, I'd buy the Harbeth in a ski... | |
| Audio Tweak gone bad...similar experiences? I haven't laughed this hard in a LONG time (seriously, tears here). Thanks, Ben. | |
| Audio Tweak gone bad...similar experiences? Was the penny oxygen-free? Sometimes the OF pennies, in a desperate attempt to obtain oxygen (especially the older ones), will steal oxygen from nearby components. (I've had tweeters, CDPs, even cables go like this.) I think you had such a penny, ... | |
| Need to turn volumn up to break in speaker cable? Actually, the break-in discs realign the binary code structure that your amp's transformer sees, therefore increasing the oxygen capacity of your cables. And everyone knows that it's touching your nose w/your ELBOW that makes imaging better. Geez,... | |
| Bispeakering...am I the only one? No . . . many people are bispeakering, and help is available. | |
| REL is dead. Long live REL Terrat: Chill, dude! I don't support the WTO either, but REL's success is not due to the sheepish (I like to say "just more intelligent than the average citizen") nature of audiophiles. It IS due to the fact that they make KILLER subs. | |
| What music do you want to play really loud? Yeah, Jayboard. Pretenders just get better the louder the volume goes. Also Rush's YYZ, Zeppelin's Achilles' Last Stand, Petrouchka, Heart's awesome guitar work on Magic Man. | |
| Speaker Selection I've heard the Sonus model and thought it was a superb sounding speaker -- very engaging, dynamic, and just plain musical and fun. Haven't heard the others. A word of personal experience, though: Buying speakers based solely on reviews (even on Au... | |
| Integrating Subwoofer with ProAc Speakers.... HELP 80 Hz is the low frequency effect (LFE) default xover setting in surround formats/receivers. I would begin w/setting the xover at 10-15 Hz below your ProAc's rated frequency response (which very well might be 80-90 Hz on such a small speaker as th... | |
| Polite, Discreet Subwoofer The REL Strata III is a 10 " sealed box design and gets out of the way very well, and I happen to have one for sale! (OK, a shameless plug.) See my current add if interested. | |
| Grizzly Man That was a sad man, and he's probably beatter off where he is now. | |
| Hearing loss and center image Yeah, it sounds like things could be considerably worse than they are. I'm off to hear Willie Nelson right now, and hopefully I won't be worrying about the center image! (bringing the trust earplugs just in case). Thanks for the points of reference. | |
| Hearing loss and center image In fact I have, and found out that my left is down only 2-3 dB @2,000 Hz. The audiologist told me she found it incredible that I could even detect that amount. I am, however, convinced that the loss is more than that, as the test did not seem all ... |