fleschler
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| Can you live with your current speaker until you die? Never say never. I've had my Legacy Focus speakers for 20 years now, always improving with new cables and tweaks. I went through Acoustat Xs, 2&2s and Martin Logan Monolith 3s in the prior 15 years. I do not want to revisit electrostats. My... | |
| Do people really just not get it that their items are not selling... I've sold about a dozen classic tube gear items on Audiogon at my asking prices. Classic tube gear keeps escalating in price like my sales of a McIntosh MX110, Fisher 200, MacIntosh MC30s, Fisher 400/500 receivers, etc. They are now in greater d... | |
| Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat The 12 E-Mats combined with my new Pharoah GroverHuffman cables (IC, A/C, speaker cables) are a double or triple improvement in my system making my Legacy Focus speakers sound like $50-60K resolving, dynamic speakers. Amazing. However, I don't t... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? Technically, Thales solves problems of linear trackers and non-linear trackers off-set angles. I don’t know what problems can occur to diminish it’s sonic attributes. Does anyone know of Thales arm shortcomings? | |
| Tube rolling for EAR 912 I have an EAR Acute which I use large O getter late 1950s Amperex. They are superior to many of the more modern tubes I've tried (about 15 pairs). Also, my older EAR 864 line stage sounded dull compared to the Mullard 12AX7 CV4004 and cleartop R... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? My good friend Mr. Record contends that the 3012R is one of the finest tonearms he has ever heard (he hasn't heard the SAT or Thales though). He also says that the common 3009 is not a very good arm for high end use. Another high end tonearm whi... | |
| Best Loudspeakers for Rich Timbre? I agree with helomech. Paper & pulp cones may breakup smoothly relative to rigid/metal cones. I didn't know that paper & pulp cones had a limited bandwith. Many full range and coincident cone speakers use paper & pulp cones. | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? I've noted that the SME IV can be improved upon with new wiring and armtube foam resonance control. It is extremely likely that the SME 3012R can also be improved, particularly in it's wiring. Stock SME wiring was "crap" in its day. Add was the... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? downunder - That's one solid and serious table. Did the guy have two SATs for stereo and mono? | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? I forgot to mention that Brooks Berdan replaced the tonearm cable with a Cardas tonearm cable to RCA box out and installed a closed foam shot into the armtube to eliminate the lower mid/upper bass hump present in the SME IV. My arm is thus modifi... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? lewm It is common knowledge that children with bronchial diseases often have the ability (or disability) to hear very high frequencies. Hearing sounds from 20-30Khz was an annoyance when I was young. It may have helped to preserve my high frequenc... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? My friend with the Caliburn/Cobra/Kiseki purchased it based on MF reviews. That was probably his best purchase in an $850K system. He also bought Ypsilon pre-amp and phono pre based on MF recommendation. Not a wise choice there (pre-amp is terribl... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? With 25,000+ LPs, the cost of playing them in high fidelity is going to cost $1000s. How many $1000s depends on the fidelity quality. When I was a teenager, it was about $500. In my 20s it was about $1500, In my 30's it went up to $4000 (VPI 19... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? I have heard the Caliburn/Cobra combination many times as well as many other high ends designs. The Cobra and Graham Phantom Elite I’ve heard costs $12-13K. I’ve been using an SME IV for 29 years. I’d like to hear a Thales Simplicity II tangential... | |
| Do speaker cables need a burn in period? stevecharm - What makes you such an expert? I've been a beta tester for cables for two decades and have had at my disposal a dozen major manufacturers cables to compare. You are correct only if comparing cables which do not have great resolution... |