john_l
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| Babyproofing Stand-mounted speakers Fishing line or some sort of loose 'emergency' ceiling suspension system -you could hide it within some ceiling suspended fake plants or ??. Might be a way to make it look ok. Ask the Wife! Do you really think your going to get aesthetically pleas... | |
| Vandersteen Mod 5 vs Coincident Tech Total Eclipse One of the unique characteristics of the van 5 is that you run it with a highpass filter between the amp and preamp. The filter lowers the subwoofer handled frequencies by 6 db before handing to the amp. The amps signal hits the van 5's crossover ... | |
| Quiet fan for rack cooling installation? See www.tomshardware.com, www.anandtech.com, and www.directron.com for info. Directron has the actual db levels and cfm rates. Pabst fans are known to be very quiet. | |
| Magnepan..the sun rises and sets on..or does it?? In their price range they stand out as one of the very best speakers. In ANY price range, they are a contender. I owned a set at the same time as a set of $12,000 vandersteen 5's. Vastly different speakers yet in all honestly I considered them ALM... | |
| Vandersteen Mod 5 vs Coincident Tech Total Eclipse I owned the van 5's for about six months. I found I simply could not get them to sound 'awesome' in my then 13x16 L shaped listening room without bringing them 6 feet into the room which gave them an ungainly placement. Henceforth I sold them. The... | |
| Manners, Eticks & Audiogon --- What do you think??? 1st Email:I'll take it.2nd Email:Please remove the case and tell me the model number's of all component capacitors ? Please include macro photo's of each capacitor and resistor. Minimum 4 megapixel. Please don't send Jpegs, tiff Only. Please inclu... | |
| Review: Pass Labs Aleph ONO Preamplifier Nice review I have an unmodified ono and find the same characteristics. It is indeed dead quiet and highly detailed. It doesn't have the tube bloom of my ph-3, but it is a good deal easier to set up (no soldering!), and does have an amazing amount... | |
| Moving from Pass Labs Aleph 5 to Aleph 2 The virgo's are a match made in heaven for the 2's. You will still not have world class bass though. Spikes and rear-room loading help. Nordost quattro-fil's are the best I've used with this combination. SPM and red dawn were very good too. I thou... | |
| Best Phono stage for a .3 mv Ruby 2 ? Well All,I finally settled it with a pass labs ono. I have it set to 47KOhms loading, I'm using maximum 76 db gain to the balanced outputs into my pass labs X1 and seeing superb results. Since it's so low, I didn't even try to set up the ph-3. The... | |
| Mods for bright speaker? Analysis plus oval 9 speaker cables tend to take some brightness out of a system. | |
| Biwiring: can you really hear the difference? I found that biwiring my vandersteen 3a Sigs and fives made a big big difference. Biwiring is absolutely the way to go with vans.With magnepans I could hear an improvement, but found it to be a bit smaller improvement. | |
| Audiogon/Asylum and magazine reviewers posts I second that ! | |
| Does size matter? You're current speaker's really aren't THAT big. I went through the same thing & decided to stick with floorstanders. I don't like the idea of something that costs $3000 perched on a stand with a cord stretching across the room. Audio Physic m... | |
| TAS's recommended speakers under 2500 Hey SdCampbell,I will note here that I am a vandersteen lover too, and I've owned several different models over the last 12 years. In fact I recall that you almost bought my vandersteen 3a Sigs when I upgraded to the van 5 a few years ago ! (you f... | |
| Opinion on Audio Physics Virgos In small room They work fine in a small room. One of the best speaker's out there for 10x12 and above. You probably do want to have the room damped with some tapestries on the wall, and perhaps some corner treatment. I have had pretty good luck using strategica... |