harrylavo
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| Adding Home Theater To 2 Channel System I did that about fifteen years ago. The main thing is: ditch the center channel. If you have really good speakers and placement, keep them and bridge the R/L speakers in lieu of a center channel. You stereo will stay perfect that way, and you'l... | |
| Recommendations for speakers that sound great at lower volume levels. Almost all earlier hi-fi gear included a Fletcher-Munson "Loudness Control" designed to boost the bass and treble to compensate for their loss at lower volumes. Harry Pearson via TAS made tone controls as well as (heaven forbid) the loudness cont... | |
| How to isolate turntable from footstep shake or vibration I endorse the use of wall racks. I used a target rack for years in several different rooms, and holding a Linn Sondek. Never ever a trace of footfall. | |
| Arrangement of components on rack It is a rare component that is really critical as to location. Onesuch is the Counterpoint SA-2 tube headamp, which must be as far away from the turntable motor to avoid hum. And its detached power supply as far away from all the components as p... | |
| Magnepan LRS- what amp should i consider? (sub $2,000) How about just moving up in power, say to an Adcom 555? Inexpensive and good sounding. Then buy some decent "entry-level" audiophile cables .... bottom end Audioquests or Morrows, for example. I think you'll end up with very good sound that can... | |
| stereo review magazine "Audionics of Oregon outsold the other stuff 10:1... IF the customer..listened...." said Tomic1617. Audionics made some of the best sounding gear produced at the time. To this day my BT-2 preamp is in my second system and second as a phono sta... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom, I follow this thread religiously even if I don't contribute much, so I see YOU her several times a week, but thanks for the feedback in answer to my question. Back in the '70's cables were just beginning to distinguish themselves and at the ... | |
| For all you Vinyl lovers! I'm with you on this, Coltran1. My dad was an audiophile from the late '40's on, and I grew up with a state of the art (mono) system in the living room that probably sounded as good as the youtube system. I've used the pandemic downtime to revisi... | |
| Horn speakers , high efficiency but not “shouty” I'm a bit surprised that nobody here has yet mentioned early James B Lansing Corner Horn speakers. These used the earliest and biggest of their famous "potato masher" horns (with diffraction grids) for both midrange and treble. To my ears the JB... | |
| Most rooms don’t need acoustical treatment. Setting up a system in a nearly empty room, once you have studied and obtained a theoretical grasp of acoustics, is a great way to learn the science and the art. And you don't need to spend a lot of money to experiment ..... piles of boxes, wool ... | |
| Thiel Owners I'm an old-timer in this business and so "cabled-up" way back in the mid-eighties, buying used Monster M1000 (their top-line) interconnects in many lengths. Liked them very much, although I only compared them to about four other brands. So over ... | |
| Classical Top Five I'm surprised no one favors Schubert. So I will. | |
| The Lifespan of an LP? Like 199a6 I have used Last Record Preservative and Last Power Cleaner on all new records worth keeping since Last first appeared in the late '60's or early '70's. Cleaning a new record with Power Cleaner often removes a layer of "grunge" that ne... | |
| VTL's and KT88's? I've got Gold Lion KT-88's in my ST-150 and I hear exactly what vegasears hears....superb. Except with my Thiel 3.5's, the ST-150 even in triode mode handles the bass better than either the ST-85 or ARC D90b that I've used previously. Not quite ... | |
| Favorite Platform for Linn LP12 I used a Target Wall-Mount Rack for mine, in two different homes. Absolutely isolated the TT. No problem with the Linn at all. |