eldartford
Responses from eldartford
| Best Floorstanding Speaker under $1000 USD I would always recommend that you LISTEN to some Maggies. They (and other planars) are quite different from box speakers, and the decision as to whether you like the planar sound is yours alone. If you do like it, (and many people swear by it) Mag... | |
| Anyone have a Kill-A-Watt meter? Highend64...The 59.9 Hz frequency measurement is wrong. The power grid system maintains very tight control of frequency and even electrical phase angle, so that different generators can be interconnected, and so that electric clocks and other devi... | |
| Hartley speakers--anyone heard/heard of? Jimjenjr...My second loudspeaker (circa 1955) was a 12 inch Wharfdale full range. I put it in a folded horn corner enclosure that I built. The interesting thing about this driver was the wool flannel cloth surround. (Really low Fs). Foam came late... | |
| Believe it or not, an A.M. radio question A straight long wire is best for short wave long distance reception. For the regular Broadcast band, apart from the ferite rod that used to be commonplace, Loops (open coils) are often used. One approach that I read about had the antenna wire hidd... | |
| Hartley speakers--anyone heard/heard of? Back in the 1950's, the 24 inch Hartley woofer was the ultimate. Only competition was the 30 inch Electrovoice. | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers Why fight this sealed vs ported battle? GO PLANAR! | |
| Budget Cartridge Questions Shure never made a bad cartridge. The M97 is an excellent choice, but I also suggest that the V15MR is about as good as it gets short of Kilobuck MC units and their similarly priced preamps. | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers If we are seeking the root cause of the "problem" I think it is sending out a 7 inch woofer to do a 15" woofer's job. Small woofers have good midbass and midrange performance, which can be a weakness of larger drivers, and this, along with the hol... | |
| Best Amp for 2000$ or lower. New or Used As usual, CarverPro ZR1600. Invest the other $1200 in good discs. | |
| Current Trends in multi thousand dollar speakers A few random thoughts:Stereophile reviews of $20K-$30K loudspeakers are about as important to me as Flying magazine reviews of Learjets.In my engineering work we consider the "baseline" design as "something from which to deviate". I think that fla... | |
| KLH Model 12 Speaker? Long ago I had KLH12s. They were the first speaker system I ever bought, rather than designed and built. The drivers are identical to those used in the KLH5, but the enclosure was floor standing, and heavy, and the crossover was "outboard" in what... | |
| Favorite Music When Having Sex Croaking of frogs (doing it) in the pond behind my house.How about your favorite sex while listening to music? | |
| Best Male Singers of the 20th Century This is the description of a CD available from acousticsounds.comIt was Irving Berlin, perhaps the greatest American composer, who observed, "It's nothing new to say that Fred Astaire is a great dancer... what is even more important to those of us... | |
| What affordable amp should go w/ magnepan 1.6? Nidan...I happen to have both the CarverPro ZR1600, and a QSC RMX 1450. The QSC is good for 450 watts at very low cost and I bought it for a subwoofer application. I did not expect very good results using it full range, but I hooked it up that way... | |
| What's under your bookshelf speakers? stick-on rubber feet from the hardware store. |