jburidan
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| Listening room ceiling type? Suggest you forget the drywall ceiling, and use acoustical tiles, which are not called acoustical for nothing. I used Roxul bats, and Celotex tiles that are 2x4' but made with a groove to look like 2x2'. One three inch Roxul bat is plenty. Use len... | |
| Vandersteen 3A Sig vs. Von Schweikert VR4 Jr. Don't forget about Meadowlark Ospreys, which are an easy and tube-friendly load. Tubes are the way to go for jazz and acoustical music, if your room allows for proper set-up. Meadowlarks are imaging champs, too. | |
| Thiel CS6 to Von Schweikert VR4 JR - Am i Crazy? I never like the sound of Thiels. Maybe the ones I heard were set up wrong, but they always sounded bright and fatiguing. It's hard to believe though, that all the reviewers could be so wrong about them. But your pre/amp/cdp combination is bright ... | |
| My Revel Studios...They're Gone...Help? There are a couple of Meadowlark Ospreys listed on Audiogon. Check out the reviews. Supposed to be great value for the money. | |
| Are "Redbook Only " CD players Obsolete? Absolutely! May I have first dibs on your obsolete redbook CDs at a dime each? | |
| Oversampling vs. Upsampling IMHO the right upsampler gets you closest to analog. The AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 with all upgrades is great. | |
| Best speakers circa 77-79' Infinity RSb | |
| Best location for isolation cones. Placing a cone under the speaker raises the height of all drivers, which affects voicing. IMHO, the result has zilcho to do with isolation, and everything to do with geometry. If you have precision engineered speakers, such as Green Mountain, Mead... | |
| What do tube and music have in comon? My system is tube-based, and it sounds splendid with all kinds of music. The choice of tubes you run in your gear is critical. OTOH, I never heard a solid state system that was more than mediocre. IMHO solid state hi-fi is a 45-year long experimen... | |
| AH Njoe Tjoeb 4000 or Consonance cd120 ?? I'm love my AH! Supertjoeb 4000 with NOS Tungsram 6922s. You don't see many used ones on the market, because they're "keepers." When you find them used, you see that they retain their value. | |
| Only three manufacturers? Add Dunlavy and Green Mountain. | |
| Meadowlark Blue Herron 2 vs. Usher 8871 I second Stevecham's motion. There will come a day when coherence in the of time-and-phase domain will be a necessary condition for any speaker to be considered high fidelity. Run with the thoroughbreds, i.e., Dunlavy, Gallo Reference 3A, Green Mo... | |
| Gallo Ref III Amps/impressions David:The Rives PARC is an analog parametric equalizer. It goes between pre-amp and amp. Using a test CD and SPL meter, the owner measures frequency responses in the listening room below 350Hz, and then programs the PARC to yield flat frequency re... | |
| Gallo Ref III Amps/impressions One good reason for getting the SA is that it gives you the ability to adjust bass output parameters to remove low frequency room modes. The same capablity is built into Vandersteen 5A's and Infinity Prelude MTS, some of the best sounding speakers... | |
| Tubed Integrated/$1500/New or Used I'll second Newbee's advice. Primaluna II yields 40 watts, and includes hexfreds and auto-biasing. |