johnnyb53
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| Do 180g vinyls sound better or is it a myth ? Here are my experiences.When I was 16 I cut out a record by The Archies from the back of a cereal box. I put it on my big brother’s turntable/separates rig to play it for my amusement--as in how awful it would sound. To my surprise it sounded as g... | |
| Searching for the ideal vintage bookshelf speakers. I still have a system with 6 Bozak woofers, 4 Bozak mids and 24 Bozak tweeters that will blow you out of the room. Imaging ? Nah --- not much. Bottom end? Definitely. Satisfaction quotient ? Truly enjoyable ! It provides a LOT of fun but not if yo... | |
| Searching for the ideal vintage bookshelf speakers. ^^^ Now ADS is an idea I can really get behind. I had a pair of L1090 ii floorstanders for nine years. They get it all right--dynamics, linearity, smoothness, frequency extension. Like a good vintage anything, the cabinetry and veneer applications... | |
| Searching for the ideal vintage bookshelf speakers. I'm surprised you have the Altec 874A Segovia on your list. It's fairly obscure, but it's also the only one I have direct experience with, though I heard the AR3a plenty back in the day as well.I bought my first stereo in 1972. It was an Altec pac... | |
| I have seen some Interesting comments about Mcintosh lately Several years ago I was auditioning a pair of Mirage M5si's, 85-lb. 51" tall floorstanders. They sounded a bit anemic to me when driven by the big 250wpc Sunfire amp everybody was raving about. We even tried it in both Current and Voltage moves. N... | |
| So how many people are using subwoofers I agree with Wolfe that real sub-20Hz subs add venue ambience and imaging and space cues that aren’t there without them. A few years ago I had a modest subscription to the Seattle Symphony for a few seasons, and I remember noticing that the concer... | |
| I heard the new D'Agostino Progression 800w monoblocks last night Goose, your impressions track with mine pretty well. I got to three of the four rooms you auditioned--D'Agostino/Wilson, ARC/Magneplanar 20.7, and McIntosh/Focal Sopra No.2.I was probably making allowances for the D'Agostinos and Wilsons having no... | |
| Searching for the ideal vintage bookshelf speakers. OK. So you want a pair of 40+ year-old bookshelf speakers, installed high on bookshelves (with 31" vertical clearance) to fill a space almost the size of a 2-car garage, but NO SUBWOOFER.Well, I think I almost have an answer. It may meet a lot of ... | |
| Pani ... New ART-9 up and running ... LP Gear and LP Tunes often have differing amounts of inventory and minor differences in pricing. I just checked both sites, however, and they both seem to have the ART-9 in stock for $1097. | |
| I heard the new D'Agostino Progression 800w monoblocks last night Are these amps Class A or Class A/B?Dan and co. never mentioned the topology, but given that they're stable and double power all the way down to a 1-ohm load (6400 W), weigh over 150 lbs. each, have 84 output transistors, and functioned as space h... | |
| Clearaudio Virtuoso Ebony Wood or Ortofon 2M Black Cartridge? ^^^ After all, look what Zu accomplished by recasing the DL-103? But they were totally upfront about it.I suspect the ebony enclosure is a significant plus over the thin plastic of the AT95E. That's why I spent a little more money to get the AT150... | |
| Can you smell your speakers when youre rockin out? Two years ago I brought home a new pair of Magneplanar 1.7s. I'm listening to them as I type. For most of those first two years, the mylar in the panels was radiating a smell. They exuded it even when nothing was playing. It didn't fill the room b... | |
| Clearaudio Virtuoso Ebony Wood or Ortofon 2M Black Cartridge? If the stylus can be replaced that easily (and evidently it can be if you know how), you could also upgrade it from the standard elliptical stylus to a Vivid Line or Shibata stylus from LP Gear.One thing that puzzles me a bit, however, is that Cle... | |
| Clearaudio Virtuoso Ebony Wood or Ortofon 2M Black Cartridge? First off I admit I have no direct experience with the Clearaudio Virtuoso Ebony or Ortofon 2M Black cartridges. However, based on many decades of audio experimentation, my instinct says to stick with the included Clearaudio Virtuoso Ebony cartrid... | |
| Turntables The Pro-ject 6 Perspex can now come bundled with a Sumiko Bluepoint EVO III HOMC, not too surprising since Sumiko distributes Pro-Ject in the US. Still, I also concur with the previous comments because the phono stage is really where it’s at befor... |