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| Mixing eras think efficient speakers sensitivity 90db or more. you may change your amp in the future. that will help with current and future amp, keeps cost/size/weight/heat down and increases placement options, remember remote line of sight. get down to mor... | |
| Classical Record Collection Needs New Home lupus dot org they come to your house and pick stuff up. usually, they want the items at the end of your driveway, arrange a date, they come, load it, drive off. we use them after garage day sales, they take what didn’t sell. I would contact th... | |
| New Audiogon URL restrictions are too much I just tried a link, blocked again | |
| New Audiogon URL restrictions are too much I cannpt post links. I get big X from Cloudflare the past week. And, if you try to go back, everythinh you have written is goneXXXX I've been writing Tammy, so far no solution. | |
| Pine Tree Audio Kinetic Speaker Cables Review. Pine Tree Custom Cables are very cooperative, made me phono cable with special long/narrow din connector one end, RCA other end, good price, sounds great. | |
| Brigid Monos or Mono Blocks? One advantage of bridging capability: say switch to tubes, keep cost/heat/size/weight down, will 45 wpc be enough? or: buy new speakers, less sensitivity, existing amp enough power for them? If reasonably easy to find another, used or new, you ... | |
| You don't lack bass, you have too much treble I use a SPL meter on a tripod, and do not like pink noise. I use 1/3 octave test tones, like found on Amazing Bytes CD. Last one sold, $9.99 was me, I snapped it up. Actually the one on discogs for $42. delivered is a good price, most often $75.... | |
| Copper vs. Silver tonearm wire Personally I have always had Copper, the difference size and number of strands and insulation. For a friend I installed two Vintage Micro Seiki MA-505S which was/is their silver wire 'upgrade' version. I'm not sure if it is solid silver or silve... | |
| Acceptable to ask seller for option to return a component? You certainly have the right, and probably wise to get a return commitment, in writing. Also, even if listing says 'working' ... write seller via the service, i.e. eBay, Reverb ...ask questions, and get clarifications in writing which you can th... | |
| Stuff You Tried To Love 1st comes to mind is a SS McIntosh Preamp C28. It worked fine as a switcher/attenuator, many features I still want, HOWEVER, I did not like the sound of it’s MM Phono EQ. I actually preferred the dinky optional phono built into my Audio Technica ... | |
| Preamp - what's the purpose? Functionally: Volume Control is the most common need. Thus a Preamp is an attenuator, most combined with a gain stage. Passive is a switcher, attenuator with no gain stage, perhaps other features. Pre-Amp, (the pre) (ignoring features, switching,... | |
| Best musical center channel under $300 1st find a way to locate your center channel just below the TV/Monitor. Fairly easy if monitor is wall mounted. Mine: I built a 6" high riser to sit on my equipment cabinet below. TV on the riser, center channel below/within the riser. 2nd, match... | |
| Handling Heavy Amps I agree, hire an INSURED furniture mover, a piano mover for something huge needing care. IF a friend unable to help had a brother, son, etc, that might work. Coincidentally, looking for powerful amp/mono blocks: I thought, the front handles can ... | |
| directional speakers Audio Presentation: 2D Stereo; 5.1 Directional; 3D Enveloping Live sound is generally ‘front stage based’ (except ‘surround theater’ like Cats), presenting 2D directionality (varying greatly with seat location). Conveying the sense of a particula... | |
| directional speakers from their site (emphasis by me): **BACCH-ORC is the most advanced room correction technology today. Unlike any other commercially available room correction system, BACCH-ORC relies on quick in-ear (binaural) acoustic measurements, millimeter-res... |