immatthewj
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| Does your "esoteric" taste in audio also exist in other "things" you own/consume? I often huff gasoline while I surf the internet for porn. | |
| Best 12AU7 Type Tubes for a Preamp Back sometime in the mid ’90s, one of the best audio investments I ever made was retubing my 12au7 Cary preamp & my 6922 ARC amps via Andy at Vintage Tubes. He sold me a half dozen NOS Mullard 12au7s for the preamp, and the years that I ran th... | |
| Listening chair height? @onhwy61 , thank you!! "Vertically, there is very little change in the speaker's sound as long as the listener is on or below the tweeter axis. Move above the tweeter axis, however, and a deep suckout appears at the crossover frequency (fig.6).... | |
| Listening chair height? @erik_squires , thanks for the suggestions. The speakers are currently on 24" Target stands (now wishing that many years ago I would have bought higher stands), and I'd rather not shim the stads themselves, but I could easily shim between the fr... | |
| Why do so many members seem afraid of making an audio decision? Take a 95 year old person to a diner and watch them peruse the 300-item menu. Then you will have the answer. @chayro I haven't made it to 95, and I am thinking that I won't, but for those that have, I would think that being as how every meal... | |
| Acoustic Curtain for listening area yes good point , did a bit of that last month , very good advice to follow . Thanks ! @tommypenngotti , reading this got me to thinking that my listening room might benefit from treating the left & right perimeters. After you conducted t... | |
| Listening chair height? All speakers are different in this respect. @roxy54 , is there a method that you would advise to experiment with this factor? For the time being I am planning on shortening the legs of an inexpensive chair. | |
| Listening chair height? Thank you for clarifying that for me, @erik_squires ; the center of my midrange driver is at 34.5" above the floor. Being these are B&Ws, I would have to say that I am definitely too high. For the time being I think it is going to be cheap... | |
| Listening chair height? Yes, @jerryg123 , thank you. | |
| Listening chair height? Thanks for the input, @cd318 ; I am one that doesn’t want to be limited to a strict sweet spot, but I have always been thinking that if there is one in my "listening room," I’d like to find it. @erik_squires sorry for the ignorance on this subjec... | |
| What’s your latest high-end audio purchase? It's been over a year ago, but a Cary SLP 05 from Cary's preowned page. It replaced a Cary SLP 90. I thought the price was right. | |
| Where did you buy your first audio gear? The BX at Scott AFB, Illinois in 1979. A Magnavox rack system that had a receiver with 8-track and also came with a turn table. I think I picked it because the huge looking speakers appealed to me. | |
| Interconnects - better before preamp or after preamp? @emergingsoul I just replied to another thread, more or less on the interconnect topic. I relayed the advice I received from a highly regarded seller of vintage NOS tubes, and since typing is such a laborious task for me, I am going to copy &am... | |
| WILL IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE? @jili12 around 25 years ago I bought a bunch of vintage NOS tubes from someone who most on this & other sites hold in high esteem. At that time he did not sell interconnects, and I don’t know for positive, but I don’t think that he does toda... | |
| Interconnects - better before preamp or after preamp? If you have a World class preamp, is there a need to go nuts buying some really nice cables before the Signal reaches the preamp?. Let the preamp do its thing and then provide Royal treatment for Signal‘s Journey to the amplifier. It only seems... |