insearchofprat
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| Your favorite Small Apartment Speakers ... NEW: Something by Golden Ear (MY EX-FRIEND SWEARS BY THEM) or the KLIPSCH HERSHEY llll; vintage: late 90s or early 2000s Gershman Avant Garde RX-20 | |
| Anyone using/familiar with dnm precision products out of the UK? ... thank you for your experience and evaluation... why do you think they are so 'unheard of'? Do you have their electronics as well? | |
| How would you upgrade my entry level system? ... and I'm assuming you have fully broken in your equipment - that means 300+ hours of continuous play (I usually do double that): most never really break their equipment in, consequently never really knowing how good their equipment really is... | |
| How would you upgrade my entry level system? ... FIRST MAKE YOUR OWN SPEAKER CABLES: twist lengths of 14g Solid Core Copper wire from an electrical supply place (I paid $0.20/lf), install with bare wires and play for 300 hours. You may find you have rebirthed your system with enough improvem... | |
| WAF Speaker suggestions Not often on the used market: the origional Avant Garde RX-20 in the early 2000s, thru several inerations of Avant Gardes to present day;: this amazing speaker by Gershman Acoustics is a full-range, pyramid-shaped 3-way floorstander that has ampl... | |
| If you could bring back one great artist that has ... ONE OF THE GREATEST MALE VOICES (and a tremendously creative individual): NAT KING COLE | |
| Solid core Versus Stranded Speaker cables and I was amazed at the sound impovement when I hooked 'um up... I actually found a further improvement when I tried the wires without connectors - I found further clarity in using a bare wire connection!I am considering sending my home-made speak... | |
| Solid core Versus Stranded Speaker cables gillatgh: I am considering trying/using the JW wire after your origional comment/recommendation. Presently - I have made my own, twisting 12g solid core copper wire strands together: 4 strands per side (to individually bi-wire | |
| WAF Speaker suggestions ... check into vintage, or new (probably out of your price range) Gershman Avant Garde speakers: small footprint (12" x 12"), under 3' tall pyramidal-shaped full range floorstanders. They have a disappearing act: Very high WAF, even with grills of... | |
| Have you been surprised by power cable changes? s millercarbon: it was my observation, years ago, that more expensive (not available to me in those years) speaker cables and interconnects were "start broken in" (45-50 hrs or so) by the manufacturer, and and were then labelled with printed arrows ... | |
| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. ... hard to find but well worth it: JBL L25 PRIMA (funky cabinets, but considered by some former JBL designers as one of, if not their best, truly successful-sounding speaker designs | |
| CAN YOU OVERPOWER A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT ... sorry kevinkoc64 - above comment to you should read JOB INT not INC | |
| I wonder why...... ... jchiappinelli: regarding tires on high end cars: they cover themselves legally by specifying and supplying specific tires. The car owner always has the option to change but the car is tested and documented with specific tires, solely for lega... | |
| CAN YOU OVERPOWER A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT ... kevinkoc64: you are a truly astute audiophile; please contact me if you ever decide to part with your SA-8001... MY SUGGESTION TO YOU: ALTHOUGH IT IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET , but if you can find a JOB INC - hook the CD up, happily toggle be... | |
| Looking for a good full range floor stander ... Great speaker: footprint 12" x 12", 36" tall, pyramidial-shaped, full range 28hz - up, biwire-able; sometimes/rarely available on the vintage market and well worth searching out: late 1990s Gershman Avant Garde RX-20 (the earliest model), Avan... |