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| Stand Alone Super Tweeter for Revel F208? Townshend Maximum Super Tweeter -around $1599 full retail (musicdirect.com). | |
| Bookshelf speakers for Onkyo A-9070 amp Though I've never heard them, the Quad bookshelf speakers with ribbon tweeters ($1000) are supposed to be dynamite. | |
| Bi-Amping Which amp for highs and which for lows? My rule of thumb: Whichever way sounds best! | |
| Used Korean Speakers The sweet spot is in the demilitarized zone... | |
| Good Speaker within a budget of USD10,000 Something to consider is what are your listening habits? I've always felt that I should have two systems: One for a "quick fix" (listening session of an hour or less). One for day-off extended listening.The first system would have slightly exagger... | |
| JBL everest? They're too busy working 80 hours a week! | |
| Testing 6H30 tubes Call Upscale Audio in L.A. or Balanced Audio Technology. | |
| What is an excellent power cable? Start with Shunyata Venom (front end) or Venom HC (amplifier). | |
| JBL everest? Make that: "Horn speakers, like some JBL's, are a good match with QUIET valve amps"... I tried to match Klipsch La Scalla II with PrimaLuna integrated and got nasty transformer hum which I could hear 12 feet away.Lost many hundreds of dollars on ... | |
| Advice needed on Amp No need to put panels in back of the speakers. The common description is "live-end, dead-end" one end of the room some be untreated (live) the other should have treatment (dead). Also, I don't believe Audioquest ever used OCC copper. They use some... | |
| Advice needed on Amp Upgrade to a Parasound A21, get some OCC wire. Get some sorbothane footers for your equipment and put some acoustic panels on your walls to absorb early reflections (put some behind you as well). These panels are available at Home Depot now. | |
| JBL everest? 1. Gigantic in size. 2. Enormous in cost (contrary to myth, not everyone in the west is a millionaire).I happen to love horn speakers but my house is too small. I had to dispose of some Klipsch La Scalla IIs because of their size. | |
| How loud is too loud Maybe you damaged your hearing... | |
| What is meant when someone says a component is lacking soul To paraphrase Issac Hayes: Fresh hot popcorn without salt and butter. | |
| Thoughts on the most difficult instruments for speakers to reproduce? My bane is the human voice going from soft to loud (dynamics) or vice versa. There has always been a "shadow" made of distortion that parallels the transition. A corruption of the air coming out of the singers mouth? I can't explain it but I alway... |