coltrane1
Responses from coltrane1
| Best used floorstander on the FS forum under $2500 Nadda. ML Vista's get my money every time. B&W can't approach the presentation of the Vista's. Flame on, but it's true. | |
| Amp for Martin logan CLS Originals Celtic66 is dead on accurate. I owned CLSiiz's and used a vast variety of SS amps, namely Plinius SA250, BAT VK500, Pass Aleph 2 monos, but the best overall performance I experienced was after mating the CLS's to a pair of Manley Ref 450 mono's, t... | |
| Acoustic Zen Dare I suggest perhaps they're meditating? It was only a suggestion... | |
| Best Late Night Low Volume Speaker Hawthorne Audio OB's driven by a simple 10 watt SET 300b integrated. Hands down, the most crystal clear presentation...I know because I'm having to listen late at night while the my other half is sleeping. | |
| Personal speaker evolution I find it interesting where the original poster advanced from buying new to used. I just bought my first ever pair of brand new ML's, but only because they'd been purchased by the original owner and were never unsealed. Hand me downs is the way to... | |
| Electrostat - M-L; Quad or Soundlab - reliable I've owned every former model ML produced: Aerius I's, SL3's, Requests, Monolith III's, and now Vista's, and I've yet to experience a single reliability over close to 20 years of use. I'm perplexed by the "reliability issue" posed by the author. | |
| How many 'listen outside of the box' design? As the owner of both OB's and Planar's I thought it might be interesting to hear what other non box listener's have experienced. I imagine many of you, like myself, ventured away from box designs for a reason...namely the more lifelike presentatio... | |
| Questions about room size and speaker choice Kevinzoe, you be THE man. Thanks for listing this info. It lead me to discover Dr. Toole's great 90 minute ipod-mp3 cast at: http://twit.tv/htg14I really enjoyed his thoughts on listening to live music versus recorded music and large room acoustic... | |
| Is my room too small You're fine at that room size. I've recently acquired a new home and gave up my much larger room. The room I'm in now is actually just slightly smaller than yours. I feared I'd not experience as good a soundstage, but I'm happy to report that wasn... | |
| Anyone have Coincident Frankenstein amps? My amp finally arrived and as promised I've returned to give a brief review of the 534B. As with most everything audio each users experience will vary. This is my first 300B SET experience, but frankly I can't imagine why anyone would spend more. ... | |
| Anyone have Coincident Frankenstein amps? Afc, I've just bought a 534B, and it's enroute. I'll be happy to post a review in a week or so. It's going to drive 96dB open baffle speakers, so combined I'm hopeful of a positive match. We'll soon see. Enjoy! | |
| Review: Coda FET-01p Preamplifier Fabulous review thanks! I owned one of these during a time when I first entered audio. It's been some 15 or so years ago that I bought one of these used for $450. I can still recall how floored I was by it's phono stage performance which looking b... | |
| Where does your user name come from? It was back in '97 and an AG staffer sent me an email after viewing my classified ad on rec.audio.classifieds to notify me of a new website called Audiogon...who else remember the days of buying/selling on usenet, the old audioreview website that ... | |
| You know you're an audiophile if-- your frame of reference for time, i.e. history, is forever linked to the components you used to own, such as: I recall that September of '98 when I got that killer buy on a $3k new Sony XA7ES CDP for $1000 as Sony was closing out production on it.... | |
| How good is the BAT VK40? Samzx12 I neglected to mention that my first tube preamp was the VK5i, which I owned at the same time as a Threshold T2, a flagship preamp from Threshold. I loved the 5i, and had a very difficult time parting with it, but in the end BAT's new user... |