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| Need Tubes site: thetubestore or tubedepot for new tubes. Vintage tube services for NOS. | |
| Best Speaker for classical music Hmmm, I would lean to the Rockports, Vienna Acoustics, Magnepan 30, or Joseph Audio. I have an admitted bias against Wilson and have listened to them many times. I have only heard one system with Wilsons that I liked. Similar issues with B&... | |
| Room Acoustics With Vaulted Ceiling Those vaulted ceilings can be a problem. This is what we did in my brothers studio. We got some veneer skins and stuffed them with insulation to stop the reflections at the peak of the ceiling. It has worked very well.https://www.gossardstudios... | |
| Anybody have both Herbie's Cone/Spike Pucks and isoacoustics gaia's I will chime in only because I used the following before getting the Townshend seismic podiums. My room is on the second floor carpet over suspended wood floor. I used the following: 1) Herbies gliders, 2) Spikes through carpet to wood sub floor... | |
| I'm never going to hear a megaspeaker in a good room am I? I have listened to systems from $100K to $800K in different and well designed rooms. My biggest take away has been, gee they sound really good but to me it's amazing how little you can spend and get really good, satisfying sound in a well designe... | |
| Integrated amp recommendations What about the Modwright 225i integrated? | |
| Pass Labs int 60 vs. Luxman 590 uX ii Since your speakers are pretty efficient you probably could use a lower powered class A amp. The luxman and pass labs are both excellent choices. It seems that a class A or strong bias in class A to A/B would be a good way to go with the focals.... | |
| Question/Advice About Isolation Feet for Speakers I was on the same journey with isolation vs. coupling to the floor on a second story carpet over wood floor. I did several experiments, herbie's gliders, 1 3/4 inch stone with spikes, spikes through the carpet and no spikes. I was experiencing s... | |
| Poor Fritz Hey,Someone just buy the Fritz and Madisound speakers and do a review. | |
| What's your favorite boutique speaker maker Watkins would be another for monitors. | |
| Poor Fritz People want value for their money not necessarily the cheapest expenditure. I would ask how much these speakers would cost if they were imported from Europe and sold in a retail establishment? Every touch point causes the price to go up. | |
| Puritan vs niagara 1200 Does anyone know how the surge protection actually works on the Puritan? Does it blow an internal fuse or? | |
| Router extender. Is it possible to run an ethernet cable from your current location all the way to the new location? If not, the next best solution would be to get a "mesh" extender/router which communicates with your current router. It plugs into the wall at th... | |
| Charging A Fee To Demo An Amplifier In A Brick & Mortar Store Simple answer no. A tire kicker today can be a customer tomorrow if you treat them well. | |
| Preamp Rectifier Tube Confusion Just save yourself a bunch of time and grief by contacting Andy Bowman at Vintage Tube Service to get specific guidance. I only deal with Andy on my tube purchases and he knows what he is doing at a fair price. |