bpwalsh
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| Whatever happened to Ultech Sean, they used to be here, in the building in the lower right corner. Now you know everything :-)Brian | |
| Whatever happened to Ultech Ultech, whose name I don't believe was short for Ultimate Technology, was a Chinese company based in Wheeling, Illinois with most of their operations in other parts of the world. They had a very large building, mostly a warehouse, although it was ... | |
| realworld experience: Kharma subwoofer + 3.2 CRM Tireguy, any idea why that has happened? Are the ceramic cones really that fragile? Perhaps some residual stresses that eventually manifest themselves?Brian | |
| Seeking $15,000.00 speaker to replace Quad 988's Sound Labs might meet your objectives quite well. Being full range ESLs with prodigious bass, they excel at reproducing piano and many other instruments as well as voice in a seamless fashion. In all likelihood you can dispense with your subwoofer... | |
| Experience with Argent Room Lens KP, I'll cast a dissenting vote on this. I've heard Room Lenses help some systems but hurt others. In general the latter have been systems of greater resolution to start with, in which case imaging takes a turn for the worse. YMMV of course.Brian | |
| Power Cord Burn-In Information on the book, Electronic Properties of Materials, by Rolf E. Hummel, may be found here. It is more about the concepts rather than the pure mathematics and has been praised by many.Brian (sp) | |
| Power Cord Burn-In Morbius, I'm well aware of what FCC and BCC structures are as are others here, but you might want to look up Dr. Rolf Hummel's book wherein he exhaustively explains in technical terms how and why the break-in phenomenon occurs, covering high and l... | |
| Help who the best? Unishippers.com may be the most economical and as good as anyone else. They are a shipping broker and use various ground and air freight carriers. You may have to have a business to use them but I've found their rates to be extremely competitive. ... | |
| High-end hifi market share Don't guess, get the data from CEA/EIA who publish it. | |
| anyone heard the usher 6 series speakers? Sounds like proof by assertion, Bartokfan, although I'll grant you Seas makes pretty good stuff. Ever heard of Audio Technology? Probably not, as they do custom work among other things.Brian | |
| audio research or wife Between the two, I definitely choose wife research. | |
| Kubala-Sosna cables? Keithr, cable break-in is no joke. Some people have measured differences between identical cables where one was broken in and the other wasn't, although the equipment and the knowledge needed to do so are costly and substantial, respectively, whic... | |
| should everyone just order emm? i may as well jump in a lake and swallow a snake.Do you trust your own ears? | |
| Otl's with AvantGarde Duos? It seems to me the primary goal of an OTL is to eliminate hysteresis loss and bandwidth limiting imposed by output transformers. Since David Berning's patent is about another approach to achieve that goal, may I suggest that the results are all th... | |
| from a Krell SS- FPB 600 to What Tube Amp ? Before thinking about amplifiers I suggest you settle on loudspeakers, as you indicate you want to change them as well. A bit of information on your room and music and listening preferences would be helpful, otherwise you might be throwing money a... |