johnnyb53
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| Who remembers the Dahlquist DQ-10's? "Later the store picked up B&G electronics"Sorry, I meant BGW Electronics, who provided the amplifiers for Sensurround to provide audio effects for the movie "Earthquake." | |
| An Amplifier Change for my Wilson Sophia 2's? Wilsons are pretty efficient and you have a fair amount of power. I agree with those who suggest that you may need more gain in your phono or line level preamps. I have heard many Wilsons from Sophia to Alexandria XLF, and they always sounded grea... | |
| Who remembers the Dahlquist DQ-10's? I sure remember them. I worked at Stereo Mart on Anaheim Blvd 1975-6. The store was a satellite of Audio Associates of Pasadena, started in the ’40s and claimed to be the oldest high fidelity store in Southern California. We had most of the big pl... | |
| Great bookshelf or small towers suggestions I love my Maggie 1.7s, but looking at your room diagram I'd say the layout and available space is as big an obstacle as the WAF thing. When I was shopping for speakers at the time, the dynamic speakers in that price range that best approached the ... | |
| What are the best subwoofers to use with Magnepan 20.1s? I heard Maggie 20.1s augmented by a pair of JL Fathom F212s at a high end store’s annual open house. I had started the night listening to Alexandria mk IIs (or whatever it was in 2006) powered by a chain of VTL electronics culminating in a pair of... | |
| How to deal with a 1.0mV LOMC or is it HOMC As a frame of reference, there is no way I can run my Benz M.9 into a MM section. It does not have enough gain and it sounds like crap because it needs to be loaded at 100 ohms.That's a really good point. The real issue--if the output is 1.0mV or ... | |
| VNYL TRNTBL The ad copy says:Our understanding is that music is an art form. Polluting it with complicated connections and a mess of wires dilutes the listening experience from how the artist intended.... as if digitizing an analog source to send over Bluetoo... | |
| How to deal with a 1.0mV LOMC or is it HOMC I have an Audio Technica mono MC cartridge, the AT-MONO3/LP. It has 1.2mV output that's drama-free compatible with my MM-only phono stage, so I'd say 1 mV should work too. In my limited experience 0.5mV seems to be the de facto upper limit for LOMCs. | |
| Low volume on turntable?? LpGear offers their own upgrade stylii to hotrod the AT95E. One is a Virtual Line stylus for $89.95. The other is a Shibata stylus for $129.95.Both are favorably reviewed as significant performance improvements over the stock elliptical stylus.Shi... | |
| My Cartridge needs a new Stylus Boron's pretty hard to beat, I would think. Its atomic number is 5, making it lighter than oxygen (8) of aluminum (13). I've never had a sapphire cantilever, but I've been enjoying the boron cantilever on my AT150MLX for eight years now. | |
| Bi-polar (or Omni-polar), gimmick or real deal? I have had bipole main speakers for almost 20 years now, and had Omnipolars as mains in another system five years. Both were by Mirage (RIP). The effects of either design is pretty similar, though Mirage’s Omnipolar design had about 10 further yea... | |
| how do you select a center channel to match when the company only makes monitor speakers? I have a pair of harbeth supper plus speakers ...Are those for dinner music? :DSeriously, how about a pair of P3ESRs for the center channel? They'd share your other Harbeth's tweeter and driver types, general dispersion pattern, cabinet design, an... | |
| Best Ways to Organize a Classical Record LP Collection ? I had my CDs organized by birth of composer and my son (when he was around 10) reorganized them by the color of the spine of the jewel case, which essentially means they were organized by label regardless of period, performers, or composer. It was... | |
| Best Ways to Organize a Classical Record LP Collection ? I organize by composer's birthday. That way I have a progression that goes by music period *and* composer simultaneously--renaissance, baroque, rococo, classical, romantic, impressionist, 20th century, and contemporary.The only problem is the coll... | |
| Half speed records, are they any better ? I have a few HSM records, and in general I find them a little smoother and more articulate in the treble.Where I *really* notice an improvement across the board--mo’ bettah everything--are the 45 rpm LPs. It used to be that my gold standard was 33... |