fritzg
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| Am I a burning out audiophile???? Have you tried high-efficiency gear? For me, it has been the answer to enjoying music more. Perhaps it's personal taste, having started with 15 watts and Jensen reflex speakers 40 years ago. I went through speakers from the Cambridge, Mass era, Ma... | |
| Which budget SS amps use least Global Feedback? I built a Hawk Audio A-18 kit and think it sounds great. Can be switched to class A only and uses no feedback for 10 watts per channel, using 4 FET's per side. Easy build, but the stock case is expensive. Just components run about $1K. Talk to the... | |
| Yamaha NS-690 II Speakers?? Help Identify I had a pair of these since they were new in '79. Essentially the NS 1000 without the beryllium drivers and with a plain paper cone woofer. Virtually the same crossover, which is why they sound so good. I sold them only recently for very little to... | |
| Why Hardly Any High Efficient Bookshelf Speakers? Look at the Galante Audio Rhapsody. It's not "smaller than a breadbox" but it is not as big as a horn system. Bass supposed ly to 50 hz, but I've not heard them; I have the larger version, the Symphony, which is 12 inch (98 db), rather than the Rh... | |
| Aerial 6's lighter in the low end than the 7b's... I have Model 6's and the bass is about right, though maybe a touch heavy on some recordings with a lot of electric bass. Acoustic bass in jazz and classical recordings is good. Having the port in front helps a lot. What I am dissatisfied with is t... |