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| Preamp Suggestions for hot-rodded Odyssey Khartago? @gochurchgo - I do listen to Jazz, and classical, and thrash metal, and punk and lots of 80s rock...etc. I would not have been happy if the C-J was incapable of doing rock well. I think the C-J preamps that were older, like the PV-5, had the sof... | |
| Surprised @wspohn - Well, sure, you basically turned the 4's into a full-range tower with powered woofers. That works as well, even though the argument can be made that being able to position the subs and the mains independently has some advantages. To go... | |
| Preamp Suggestions for hot-rodded Odyssey Khartago? I have had an Odyssey Stratos HT3 since 2006. It was first used with a HT pre-pro, then a Conrad Johnson PV-11. If you can abide the limited feature-set of the C-J, used units, when they come up, are in your price range. Great MM phono section,... | |
| Surprised @wspohn - Good point. However, it depends on what you're after. My mains go down to the mid-30 Hz range on their own. The bass is clean, extended, and not at all boomy. Nevertheless, for a bass freak like me, they just cannot pressurize a room... | |
| What is as tube sounding as Conrad today? Saw this for sale... it's no CJ, but might do what you want:https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis901fa-dynaco-pas-3-made-with-all-new-parts-tube#&gid=1&...For a few more bucks, this might work, too:https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis8jg6... | |
| Cocktail Audio N15 - A Contender? @rowbuzz - Thanks! Please keep us posted. | |
| Vandersteen Sub woofers v Rythmik Subs @mr_m - My first sub was (and is) a def Tech PF15. A boomy mess until I got a Behringer FBD Pro parametric EQ. The whole thing was a beast to set up, but the results were, um, okay. But I noticed, once I had flattened out the response a bit, th... | |
| Interconnects and non-believers @rvpiano - In no way do I disagree with you. But my post was an attempt to explain WHY wires sound different from one another. Just MHO. | |
| Interconnects and non-believers I still maintain that cables can only mess up the signal. The less they mess it up, the better. And plenty of cables from many companies in many price ranges mess up the signal. Noise, response anomolies, and other issues can abound. I think it co... | |
| Surprised I had no trouble integrating my Vandersteen 2Wq subs (each with the M5-HP crossover) with my Ohm Walsh 2000s. No, these are not stand-mounts, but still, it could not have been easier. I plunked the subs in the corners, where they are designed to g... | |
| I want to digitally record my vinyl but I'm not sure how to approach it successfully. It is not quite fully fleshed out yet, but I own and love the Sugarcube SC-2 by SweetVinyl. A one-box, turnkey solution for digitizing vinyl that also removes clicks and pops. Eventually, it will attach metadata, cover art and split tracks as we... | |
| B&W 705S/Rotel amp and where to buy in NYC area? A couple of good Rotel & B&W dealers in NJ: Homeworks Group, Ridgewood, NJAudio Connection, Verona, NJThere are plenty in NYC as well. Just check the B&W and Rotel web sites - they both have dealer locators.I have not heard the Rotel B... | |
| Extremely hyped omni directionals introduced Munich 2018 @erik_squires - looking at them, I think the two drivers firing into the tubes work in a similar fashion to current Ohm Walsh designs. Except for the deepest bass, the sound radiates into the room off the back of the speaker cone, the part expose... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? @mapman - I have owned and liked an Odyssey Audio Stratos HT3 (with cap upgrade) - a three channel amp for the front channels of my combo HT/2-channel system since 2006. Last September, the amp suffered a capacitor failure. So I sent (all 64 lbs... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? @mapman - Yup, that’s just it: Before my system soiled the bed last September, I really thought it could not get much better than it was, even if it wasn’t perfect (at least not without spending major cabbage). And yet, here I am enjoying not a mi... |