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| Tube Dealers 2021 +1 for Brent Jesse. He's an unusual combination of knowledge, apparently vast NOS inventory, and honest business practices. | |
| stereo review magazine I read SR from the late '70s to the end-of-the-line. But along the way, I figured out that when it came to audio, subjectivity rules, at least in the buyer/user side of the house (though not for mfr/designer). I wasn't getting anywhere when I foll... | |
| Backup Generator transfer switch I’ve been reading Fremer’s articles with interest (and horror). It seems like an audiophile’s worst nightmare.I had a 20 KW Generac whole house generator (propane-fired) + ATS installed ~12 years ago. I was running a lot of billing through my home... | |
| Help Me Choose or Confuse Me More To O.P.: If you mentioned distance from back of speakers to back wall, I didn’t catch it. And that distance really matters in a small home office.My home office is maybe 13’ x 13’, but a large double closet bump-out makes it more like 11’ x 13’. I... | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? Not a concert, a musical play: Les Miserables, a show by the touring (not Broadway) company at West Point's Eisenhower Theater. I suspected it would be bad music, but went because we were with another couple who professed great anticipation of thi... | |
| Russian Tube Preamp, No Return, Here I go again Thanks to the O.P. for an entertaining thread--and a great attitude about audio in general.Example: "I decided I would try to have Oriental Patience from then on." | |
| I nominate this company as building best speakers! I’m happy for the O.P. in 2 ways: he found speakers that thrill him; and he apparently can afford their price. Those 2 things don’t often happen together!Side comment about the Ohm Walsh speakers mentioned above: one of the many pleasures of Prime... | |
| Please Educate Me There’s nothing at all strange about OP’s question. We’re completely surrounded by digital information on computers, laptops, tablet, cellphones, RFID chips that track those phones in stores. The list is endless. And all that hardware seems to wor... | |
| Who else is using old cables/interconnects, and is happy? Just had an interesting experience w/elderly cables. It didn’t go well:I pulled 2 pairs of 5 ft long Monster Cable M1 speaker cables (late-’80s vintage) out of storageI decided to biwire my ATC SCM 12 Pro passive monitors w/them. I’d been meaning ... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? I'm struck that this thread exploded in all the tedious controversy & name-calling so many threads do. WTF?It's a pretty straightforward topic by OP. Here's my answer:-- in the mid-'80s when Infinity was coming on like gangbusters, I bought on... | |
| I Just Inherited 4,000 LPs R.I.P. Roderick. Sounds like a most interesting fellow. Glad you got to hear live music with him; also listen to music on your system.(shout-out to audio buddies everywhere!) | |
| Perfect Pop Songs Every time I hear this, I fall into a spell (song-as-drug):Irma Thomas, "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_K9xsSdgMs | |
| Harley quote WHAT Hilde45 SAID!! | |
| Late Night Jazz + 1 on Ellington/Coltrane's version of "My Little Brown Book"2 other you-can't-go-wrong suggestions:1 - Joe Henderson's "Lush Life - The Music of Billy Strayhorn" 2 - Blue Mitchell's "Step Lightly" | |
| Is this how a Subwoofer Crossover is supposed to work? I could be wrong, but it looks like you are running 2 subs in parallel with 2 mains (ie, mains are full-signal; subs are supposedly filtered out above the crossover frequency).If I'm correct, the single most assured/competent resolution would be a... |