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| Mozart Sym 41:reviews/opinions George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra is the standard by which all others should be judged. Recorded on excellent 1960's analog tapes, and recently remasted on SACD. | |
| Question for Ex-Maggie Owners Opivl and others who mention how "slow" subwoofers tend to be...please stop and think about (or experimentally listen to) what kind of music actually comes out of your subwoofer. Mostly organ pipes of 16 feet or more. The, attack time of real big ... | |
| Question for Ex-Maggie Owners Emil...Your concern about shipping Magnepans is valid. The packing material set which they use for new units is really good, (and must add at least $30 to the cost of the speakers). They do suggest that the speakers never be shipped except in this... | |
| Multichannel Silence Sogood51...Thanks for the answer. My player settings are fine. That's why I mentioned the other Sony disc which is OK. When you say that your disc "has" all channels, do you mean that the soloist is almost entirely in the center channel? This is u... | |
| Question for Ex-Maggie Owners Some 20 or so years ago I scrapped my set of three MG II, because I had burnt up the tweeter wires, and the line array of tweeters that I attached to the Magies (before Magnepan did the same thing with their ribbon) just didn't hack it. I salvaged... | |
| Can I HANG my QUAD 57's? You have my permission to hang your Quads.The best sound I ever heard was from Magnepans hung in chains high off the floor from a cathedral ceiling half way into a very large room.As one audio salesman remarked "Magies in Bondage...I love it" | |
| Rat Shack SPL meter: Analog or Digital? The digital version actually has a bar-graph analog display that is just as good as a moving pointer. And the numeric readout sure makes it easier to log results as you vary the speaker setup etc. The digital/analog issue is just about readout con... | |
| Single Channel Attenuator marakanetz...Perhaps RS parts are not of the quality one likes to have in the audio path, but, as a temporary device to determine needed attenuation a RS pot is fine. (And I have never had unusual problems with noise from RS pots, although all pot... | |
| Step-up/down transformers degrade performance? In these days of the global economy most electronic equipments have power transformers with windings for 120 and 240 volts (sometimes more). Some equipment already has both windings connected, with a selector switch to be set according to where yo... | |
| Single Channel Attenuator A "single channel single ended passive attenuator" is a potentiometer (pot for short) and will cost you about $3.50 in Radio Shack. Throw in RCA plug and jack and you're up to $5.00. Assumng you have a solid state preamp with output impedance of 5... | |
| DVD-A player with best redbook cd playback Voodoo...Thanks for the scoop about "Redbook". Agreed that D/A..A/D..D/A would be stupid.When CD's began I had a Mission player that was just what you describe: a decent player (Phillips) with upgraded analog output circuits. The analog circuits w... | |
| DVD-A player with best redbook cd playback Voodoochile...Am I correct that a "Redbook CD" is just a particular brand of CD having superior audio mastering? No different digital coding scheme? I believe that the Pioneer, and for that matter, all other DVD players, have 24 bit 96Kc D/As, (si... | |
| Were to get fuse box for dedicated line? Fuses vs Breakers. Well I don't know about sonic differences, but as to protection here's something to think about. A tree next to my house was hit by a very strong lightning bolt, which came underground into my house doing damage to all the TV's,... | |
| Best of dvd-audio and sacd discs? I second the motion on Midor/Nobuko Imai (violin/viola) Mozart Sinfonia Concetante SACD Sony Classical.As for DVD-A, so far, the spatial effects are sometimes interesting, while the audio quality is good but not stunning. Try the Bella Fleck disc. | |
| How do you use subwoofer phase control ? Bigtee..Thanks, but I know the X/O is at 70 Hz, and anyway the objective of having both speakers putting out sound is met even if the Hz isn't exactly 70 Hz. I have one idea that I still need to try out. Perhaps the crossover (Audio Control Richte... |