johnk
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| What is your favorite material for loudspeakers? Have you guys tried a french polish? | |
| which tube mono blocks? Audio Valve challenger monos class A, xlr rca,easy auto bias can run kt88, el34, 6550, shows if tubes need replacing, stable into low ohms, great for stats. | |
| DIY Speakers, worth the hassles? Pedrillo Madisound does leap designs contact them be sure to have as much info about the design you want to copy. Best for them to know size of cab, port sizes etc, drivers used. | |
| Vienna Acoustics sounded terrible at Magnolia Who can tell what loudspeakers sound like unless in your own home and system. Relying on demos to find out sound quality is a waist of time. Only way to tell how kit will perform in your system and in your home is to listen to it in your home and ... | |
| Best Martin Logans for under $2000 used? cls 2 z hard to beat. Much better to me than new ML models. YMMV | |
| Weather Resistant Surrounds? near aquarium Salt creep will damage your loudspeakers. My 75 gal salt tank caused a salt film to form all around the tank. A fine layer of salt on walls not just visible on tank. You need a indoor outdoor loudspeaker and most of these don't sound so hot. And s... | |
| Efficient speaker, big bad tight bass? Audiokinesis check them out. | |
| What is your favorite material for loudspeakers? Cerrot, How is your stat held? By frame metal or wood so is resonates just like a cabinet thus has coloration just like a cabinet. Don't believe place a stethoscope on material holding stat play music.. Also stats can have forward backward movemen... | |
| What is your favorite material for loudspeakers? I know about the WB designs but thank you for the post. I have used Carbon fiber I found it worse sounding in my designs than the Baltic plys etc. Its also costly hard to work with. So I leave it to companies like W.B. When Stradivarius are worse ... | |
| Challenging Speaker Situation Altecs use 4 or more run a older av receiver in party or mono. Doesn't get much better for such a set up. I used Bozaks in a similar set up. You can get Altecs less desirable models and a old AV receiver for less than $1000. Nothing else near this... | |
| What is your favorite material for loudspeakers? I use veneer layers for curves. | |
| What is your favorite material for loudspeakers? MDF stores energy releases as slight delay adding coloration to sound if fully braced you can work with it. But baltic birch plywood doesn't store releases energy so the coloration's of birch plywood are pleasant the coloration's of MDF tend to be... | |
| If I like sound of Ayre Integrated I would Like... Dkzzz You seem to have such all encompassing experience. Why would one with such knowledge need help in selecting a mid priced integrated? | |
| Wilson WP 7s and supertweeter You would need a custom match super tweeter off the shelf will not be a good match. You can DIY your own. Not so hard to do or have 1 custom built. | |
| Sealed Monitor Speakers One thing I noticed about most so called sealed designs is that the Binding posts are not sealed and will let air through this causes a chuffing noise when played loud. If you have a sealed loudspeaker play some bass heavy music loud and place han... |