elliottbnewcombjr
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| Why does my hifi always seem to sound especially good on Thanksgiving? Hi, and Happy Thanksgiving to All. Absolutely True for me. I inherited a giant tube console in 1973, Fisher President II made in 1958. Every year, just prior to Thanksgiving, to get ready for the Holidays: I would pull all the tubes: am tuner... | |
| HiFi vs MidFi SPEAKERS, that’s where real differences can truly be heard, and there, progressive improvements are low, mid, high, unbelievable! The price of speakers is proportional: low, mid, high, unbelievable. Of course there is marketing muddle, but the fun... | |
| Bought the wrong subwoofer! hickamore, I can see the point of keeping full range signals to mains that go as low as yours do, makes sense, and then you simply make sure that the main amp is good for those speakers/space. my latest kick: Have you bought a SPL meter and mea... | |
| Better CD Sound: The Search Last night I listened to two fabulous Jazz albums on my Integra CDC-3.4. Awesome, you forget it's digital. Frankly I would feel like an idiot if I spent a lot of money and found/heard this later. CD's Only. Ben Webster meets Oscar Peterson John... | |
| Bought the wrong subwoofer! have you considered buying a preamp with pre-out/main in. ANY sub (self-powered), using line in/internal crossover/line (minus low bass) back to preamp is the best way because the self-powered sub’s amp takes the job of low bass, most of the po... | |
| Bought the wrong subwoofer! they come with a 45 day risk free return policy https://www.svsound.com/pages/bill-of-rights | |
| Tube Vs. SS Preamps I just noticed, you are highlighting your question toward Preamps. I had McIntosh SS C28 Preamp, highly regarded by many. I much prefer my McIntosh Tube Tuner/Preamp mx110z to the C28 (or any prior Preamp). mx110z’s MM Phono (2) is wonderful, I ... | |
| Tube Vs. SS Preamps I’m 73. I started with tubes, went to SS, low powered SS Receiver, then powerful McIntosh SS Amp and SS Pre for inefficient speakers for a few years. Returned to tubes and efficient horn speakers, couldn’t be happier. All along, I always had 30-3... | |
| Can one use assymetric wire gauge for speaker cable construction? I think this will be helpful regarding bi-wiring, the reason for different guages https://www.audioadvice.com/videos-reviews/speaker-bi-wiring-bi-amping-explained/ I chose to believe in small diameter individual strands, so I make my own ... | |
| Thoughts on having 2 different sized subs in same room it is best to go pre-out to self-powered subs, then line level (less low bass) back to the preamp to amp. thus neither the amp or main speakers try to make low bass. that will help you with the carver 275 driving your 88 sensitivity mains which I ... | |
| Listening to music I don’t particularly like Then, there are albums like this: Betty Carter, 'Social Call' I just bought. Put out in 1980, her original material from 1955, and never released from 1956. Mono, as I said, recordings in the Mono era were quite good, Quincy Jones and Gigi Gryce ... | |
| Listening to music I don’t particularly like I also prefer excellent sounding content. Happily I like Jazz, and both early Mono and most Stereo (not reprocessed) Jazz includes great engineers that knew what they were doing. I do put in the 'sell' shelf, albums from artists I like with crap ... | |
| Tonearm for Technics SP-15 these people make a separate VTA mechanism for SAEC and Fidelity Research Arms. Yeay? Nay? https://reverb.com/item/45099802-fidelity-research-fr-64-66-fonolab-amf-104-tonearm-vta-on-the-fly-adjustment-mechanism https://reverb.com/item... | |
| New pre-amp purchase advice The ADCOM definitely does it, and in budget Alternates: ONLY SOME preamps have MM Phono Inputs FEWER preamps have MC Phono Inputs (or both). I suggest keeping options greater, both new or used, by going for greater availability (thus less cost... | |
| Powered subwoofer impedance self-powered sub's impedances match their internal amps which are designed together |