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| What does one purchase after owning horns? I disagree with Shadorne's comment that the 604 is no longer competitive. It all depends on how it is implemented. If done properly in enclosures like the ones Shindo or Serious Stereo have designed these speakers can have a musicality that IMHO e... | |
| What does one purchase after owning horns? I was looking for a speaker that had the uncompressed horn sound and great integrated bass. This combination is very hard to come by. I ended up with a speaker from Serious Stereo which utilizes an Altec 604 driver. This point source speaker has a... | |
| Amp to match Avantgarde Uno G2 horn speakers You may want to check out the Serious Stereo 2A3 amps. These amps sound incredible and should be a good match. I am using with 101db sensitive speakers with great results. | |
| Altec 510 reviews? I have 604 based speakers which are in enclosures built by Serious Stereo. I disagree that they do not sound full or open at low volumes. I suppose it would depend on the implementation of the speaker though. Mine are in a 11.5 cubic foot bottom v... | |
| Uni-Protractor Set tonearm alignment I find that the card style arc protractors are very accurate and perform better and are easier to use than other types of protractors. I have the Talea version one with the card style arc protractor provided and I feel that my cartridge is dialed ... | |
| Teo XLR Defride, I am hearing the same type things with my liquid cables although they are from Audio Magic. I have not heard the Teo cables but from feedback I have heard they are very good. These cables I am sure use somewhat different design but the co... | |
| Best new Liquid conductor technologies-Audio Magic Pani, given that you and your friend's assessment of the cables are so different than mine and others who have heard them can you let us know where you obtained the cables and the number of hours that were on them when you did the evaluation? As J... | |
| Best new Liquid conductor technologies-Audio Magic Pani, which Audio Magic Liquid Air cable did you try as there are 4 levels of them. As I mentioned earlier in this thread I had auditioned the Clairvoyant Liquid Air IC,s and I did end up buying them. They outperformed my Shindo IC's by a fair amo... | |
| Kondo, Zanden, CJ, Ref 5? Pre w/ Pure Tonal Color? You should consider either the Shindo Vosne Romanee or Giscours preamps. The Shindo preamps provide much detail but in a very musical way with great tonal quality and texture. | |
| Slam possible with Tubes instead of SS ?? You can get slam with tubes. I have 1 watt Serious Stereo monoblocks that have plenty of slam with my highly efficient Altec 604 drivers. These amps though are more than your price range. As far as system noise the Serious Stereo 2A3's do have a s... | |
| Best new Liquid conductor technologies-Audio Magic I am in the process of auditioning the Clairvoyant Liquid interconnects and am very impressed. They sound different from most other cables in that they do not have the distortion that most all cables seem to have. This is most noticeable on vocals... | |
| Jazz must have pressings??? For me must haves would be Brubeck (Time Out), Chet Baker (Chet), John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman, Bill Evans at the Village Vanguard, and like someone mentioned above any LA Four album. I would go for almost anything that Ray Brown plays bass i... | |
| Transmission Line Bass I have a transmission line speaker built by Serious Stereo which uses the Altec 604 duplex driver and 2 bottom vents. I must say that the bass is much better than the other ported speakers I have had in the past. It goes down into the mid 20hz bef... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea I did not need to attend the shootout as I have owned the Schroeder reference for 5 years ( it is a great tonearm) and have recently switched to the Talea. I agree with Dan that it only took a few minutes in my own system to hear the improvements.... | |
| Will there be any 'Arrow' mark in a Fuse holder? I realize there are a lot of skeptics out there but I just tried a couple of furutech fuses in my amps and changing direction on the fuses is like listening to two totally different systems. One direction has a clearer more focused sound but seems... |