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| bose 1801 amplifier I remember that beast. Had huge rising THD within the audio band, presumably from the designer's belief that since 901s have no tweeters, the hash wouldn't be audible! Had a monster power supply, lots of SOA to run parallel pairs and handle the ... | |
| What is the average dealer mark up? I’ve spent my life working in Audio, and some of the posts above are substantially correct. The real issue is so what does this tell you? B&M retail is in decline for many reasons. The vast variety of products that can be found on the interne... | |
| 50 foot cables? Rogue's manual gives no spec on output impedence, but most tube amps are higher than most SS amps in general, meaning less damping is applied to control the woofer of your speaker. Longer cables add series resistance, which effectively reduces da... | |
| what's the point? bdp24,Your classic straw man argument above simply says: This controversy over amplifer differences is just as beneath consideration as the ones you name...but why? Can’t one carefully set up well designed speakers, tastefully match choices of in... | |
| ~$6K mini-monitor recommendations? Give Focal Kanta 1s a listen...I'm a fan of the 2s, havent heard the 1s. | |
| Reasonable moving coil cartridge Do you need the built-in MM preamp? You do not! Don’t waste your money on a table with that feature! Check out the Fluance RT-85; it is supplied with an Ortofon 2M Blue MM cart. Enjoy for now, then choose the ATO9XEN. Or buy both and sell off th... | |
| I need advice for power cords After doing a comprehensive re-capping job, I just upgraded the power cable of my McIntosh MC240 by purchasing a Transparent Hardwired 2-prong ($75.00), clipping off the inlet plug, stripping, tinning (silver solder) removing the strain relief, de... | |
| Ok guys I've seen low mass arms so attracted by static from the dustcover that they are lifted right off the record! Stands to reason that less static can also attract the arm, even if not enough for full lift-off. So I NEVER play with the cover down. ... | |
| Why the woofer moves badly when playing certain LPs No one has mentioned the fact that reflex loaded speakers go nuts when driven below their tuned cutoff frequency. Does the OP have vented or sealed? He doesn’t say and our experts don’t ask. But the observation that this phenomenon is limited to n... | |
| Bose 901 The monster Bose power amp MC refered to was 250 WPC, not 350 (that was the Fizzle Linear at 350), and it featured a distortion curve that rose steadily above the upper midrange, no doubt due to minimal open-loop bandwidth limitations on the outpu... | |
| Bose 901 The Series I (“9 Rave Reviews!!”) were just getting the Bose propaganda machine warmed up. Series II are the ones to look for. They had the drivers custom made, not off the shelf as in S I. Yes they needed power because of the steep bass boost. ... | |
| Badly recorded albums needing upgrading Layla AOLS...never thought it was so bad relative to its time, but you want a great band that was really ill-treated by their label, try Jefferson Airplane. The first release that sounded good was the "Worst of" compilation, where the remasters h... | |
| Stereo Receivers from the past... I’ve never owned a receiver, having been advised early on that separates were the way to go, but my 45+ years in the HiFi business has given me a lot of perspective. Some favorites: the Pioneers of 1974-5 (SX-737, 838, SX-750 and up), Sansui 7 and... | |
| Are Bowers and Wilkins speakers overpriced? To the Bolsheviks on this forum, consider the mouths that are fed on the retail dollar. Markups at every level support the workers in the field of Hi-Fi! The design engineers at their CAD workstations, the woodworkers, the machinists, the Packagi... | |
| Best speaker between 15K-35K As appealing as it is to weigh in on this convo, I gotta agree with all those who mention the room environment and the listener’s expectations as a key to finding the right speaker. Do you want or require high volume “live concert” SPLs? Are we ... |