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| Tekton Speakers,Who owns them and what did you replace and why. I was watching "Ask Paul" videos this morning where Paul McGowan takes questions from listeners and tries, as best he can, to respond to their queries. One question asked how important driver material is to the resultant sound of a particular spea... | |
| Good Bass Recordings on CD for Subwoofer Testing Bela Fleck's Flight of the Cosmic HippoYello's Toy | |
| Tekton Double Impact & Comb Filtering Thanks to above respondents. I would love to hear Tektons some day. If anyone is in southcentral PA or thereabouts and would welcome a visit from a curious audiophile I would be most appreciative. | |
| Tekton Double Impact & Comb Filtering Thanks @charles1dad ! Like I said I am not in any way bashing them. As you so correctly pointed out, I haven't heard them!!I'm just trying to figure out how Tekton does it at such low price points.I gather people just buy these speakers based on... | |
| Tekton Double Impact & Comb Filtering Hey Tekton fans!I ran across acrimony regarding Tekton fans on another thread tonight. I am totally new to Tekton and have no bias against them. In lieu of reading this entire 7 page thread can someone explain how Mr. Alexander can deliver so muc... | |
| McCormack dna1 to Sony 1040 Will it work? Don't care. Your DNA-1 deserves better. | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... @charles1dad Yea, when you've got it going like those two cats just do your thing and admire the other guy. Plenty of room in the jazz world back then for two players of their caliber! | |
| What type of Audio Gal or Guy are you? Do You Know? Buy Stockfisch! for great sound of enjoyable guitar-based folk-style compositions. | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? 200-400 hours is realistic to hear improvement in new cable as the dielectric breaks in. | |
| Need recommendation for replacement of Vintage Conrad-Johnson PV-11 preamp. I agree with rvpiano above. If you have the available money you could look up RHB Dezigns located in Churchville, PA and give Bob Backert a call. He would be able to fix your PV-11 and could recommend various sonic improvements he could do to it... | |
| Is Spiking Necesarry? @gdhal Wow! Just finished reading your review. Very comprehensive and detailed. I liked how you kept updating as it reveals how your continuing listening experiences matured your overall view of the References and their sonic/cost benefit rel... | |
| Is Spiking Necesarry? @gdhal After being brought back to this thread today, I was wondering how things worked out with your GE References regarding placement and your overall assessment of their sound quality. | |
| Need suggestions please! Electrical noise in my system and it's driving me crazy! @cleeds Good point about checking all of the outlets in the home. I had that done by an electrician in 1997 after our house suffered a direct lightning strike. Interestingly, he found a couple outlets that were wired incorrectly. Amazing how ... | |
| Need suggestions please! Electrical noise in my system and it's driving me crazy! @gearheadmac Had the same problem many years ago. Had a letter published in Stereophile at the time about the solution described below.The solution was opening up the breaker box and tightening down ALL of the ground wires for each circuit. Some ... | |
| The use of the word "musical" as an adjective I was going to try to wordsmith a response but why bother when nonoise got it pretty much right to begin with! |