jim
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| IRS Beta woofer column replacements?Help Where did you look for replacements -- dealers or driver manufacturers? Do you know who manufactured the drivers? If it's someone like SEAS, for instance, you can go direct for either replacements or recommended substitutes. Unfortunately, I am no... | |
| Best value speakers available All good recommendations, but my taste leans towards Apogee Stages, CLS1's and Quad's -- all of which can be found at extremely reasonably prices given their performance (all seem to be running in the $1200 to $1400 range). Another value speaker t... | |
| Electrostatic positioning 1A I second the notions of experimenting with toe (and even distance between the speakers) to try and correct the situation you've described. This proved to do the trick with my CLS's.Tom's point regarding diffusers directly behind the panels is also... | |
| Stunned by a cable upgrade Sean, what a great cable shoot-out. Very thorough and objective. This is an interesting thread in the sense that it clearly points out how system dependent components can be. I am currently using AP Oval 9's but without the negative effects that c... | |
| Lets fight Part2 It's idotic threads like this that have largely made Audiogon a waste of time for me. SOS... again and again. I know that it's my choice whether to read specific threads or just keep scrolling, but it seems that there's just not much worth reading... | |
| kinergetics chiro Ditto... off-line me. I can put you in touch with Fred Pham, who is doing repairs and mods for Tony Di Chiro. He happens to be local, which a good thing for me. I need to dig through "da stuff" to get you a number. FWIW, Fred has a mountain of Chi... | |
| ElectrostatsPlaner/Ribbon s Vs Cone driv Doug, sorry for the late reply. My notebook`s screen went South. Now, I am sharing my wife`s computer -- Japanese software and all -- hoping all goes well.I changed from Stages to Centaurs because of a smaller room. I never had the sense to try a ... | |
| To tone control or not to tone control Hey, Doc... I do like indoor plumbing. Taking a crap in the back yard is not my cup of tea. Modern autos are fine in a utilitarian way. But, a horsedrawn carriage is better in a qualatative way. Just like new cars might be better in a quantatative... | |
| To tone control or not to tone control Doc, what's the problem with tubes? What the $#@% *is* your point -- other than the one on the top of your head? OOOh! | |
| ElectrostatsPlaner/Ribbon s Vs Cone driv Doug, which Apogee hybrid do you have? I went from Stages to Centaur's (26" ribbon/8" woofer) due to a move/smaller listening room and found the bass to be pretty good. Actually, pretty damn good. Maybe it was my room. I subsequently went to ML CL... | |
| Placement of Martin Logan s My CLS's are 5.5' from the front wall and 5' from the side walls. Panels are 8.5' apart (center to center) with slight toe in (no more than 2 to 2.5"). They actually worked -- well focused sound stage/center image -- farther apart, but I've added ... | |
| Upgade... Amp choices??? I also think you'll be happy with the McCormack. I had a DNA1 Deluxe and was very happy with it (driving difficult loads... Apogees and ML CLS's. The .5 has a similar sound and almost as much real world juice. I have heard the upgrades that Steve ... | |
| Why are optical cables jitter prone? I have not used toslink but have heard -- from those who have used it and are credible -- that it is important to use glass rather than other materials. FWIW. | |
| Tubes for modulus 3A ? I am using 60's vintage Siemens 6DJ8's with great results. A *far* better sounding tube than the stock Sovteks. I have not had any problems with the M3 eating high quality NOS tubes, but found that it went through the Sovteks rather quicky -- whic... | |
| Is Threshold back? Back in name only??? Many companies that go under sell the rights to their name and old designs -- if the "name" is indeed back it does not necessarily translate to the Threshold of the past. |