johnnyb53
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| highly sensitive loudspeakers for single ended poe Granted, they're quite a bit under your budget, but they may work for you. The GoldenEar Triton Two towers have a rated sensitivity of 91 dB and are only $3K/pair. HOWEVER, they have built-in powered subwoofers and a single pair of speaker cables ... | |
| Is this dangerous ? Get a 2-channel preamp with a home theater bypass circuit. Then follow the instructions on connecting it all together. Or, if your HT receiver has preamp outputs, connect the Left and Right front channel pre-outs from the receiver to a pair of lin... | |
| Why does my system sound so shrill and distorted? The rack is all maple with two two inch platform and one 4inch on top with turntable. I have been wondering if that could be a little too thick, In my head that could cause less bass and sharper highs. For what it's worth, I had my turntable platf... | |
| Auralex SubDude 06-08-12: MateoredInteresting. I need to do more listening. I think I might experiment by putting some weight on top of the sub to damp the movement a little. I've heard people putting bags of lead shot on top of subs. Several years ago I got a fa... | |
| What amp to get for Dahlquist DQ12's? 06-09-12: Malcolmreynolds21What can I expect to get one of these carver amps for, and are they that difficult to come by?eBay or perhaps a vendor of used and vintage gear. I'm not saying you have to get a Phase LInear 700; after all, they came out... | |
| What amp to get for Dahlquist DQ12's? You can also improve warmth with a very powerful SS amp to get the woofer in the sealed enclosure to sit up and bark. I have a friend who powers his DQ-20's with a Phase Linear 700 (Bob Carver's first product, 350 wpc in the '70s). Not only is it ... | |
| Warm Sounding Speakers 06-06-12: LoftarasaI should think the "snap" of a snaredrum is above sub frequencies, around 1.5-2khz, so I don't see how that would be addressed by having warm speakers on the end of a "sterile" amp that you "probably will never like"!I've been p... | |
| Your best 2-channel system for 6000$ total 06-04-12: TpreavesFolks gave you some good advice on your other thread. Yes, you already got the right advice on your other thread. Your Parasound/PSB combo is so much better than your upstream components they're just revealing those shortcomings.... | |
| Magico Q7 . . . wow 06-05-12: Audiofreak32Johnnyb loserStill happy. | |
| I just heard the Wilson Alexandria XLF's Wednesday 06-04-12: Lloydelee21I have spoken with people who compared the XLFs on ML latest Ref, D'Agostino monos and the Gryphon Mephisto and it seems those who were there preferred Mephisto significantly. My sense is that the Gryphon is more delicately nu... | |
| KEF 107.2 with KUBE? 06-04-12: Dover... If you can find Dick Olshers review in Stereophile vol 9 no 7, November 1986, he discusses the 107 Kube. He actually had DC offset problems with his 107's Kube.Here is Olsher's review in Stereophile | |
| Magico Q7 . . . wow 05-24-12: Audiofreak32Too bad my posts are being filtered... sad.No, happy! | |
| I just heard the Wilson Alexandria XLF's Wednesday The D'Agostino Momentum mono's are the closest thing to perfect amplification that I've heard. It's easy to forget you're listening to electronics, without euphonic colorations on one hand or clinical sterility on the other. I've heard them with t... | |
| Warm Sounding Speakers 05-27-12: Audiofreak32Warm sound will almost always require tubes..."Almost always"? I don't think so. Warmth is a tonal balance thing and any number of speakers are voiced this way and speaker placement has a lot to do with it too. If you're talk... | |
| Warm Sounding Speakers Dorgay's review is here.The current Bose Series VI has been around for 25 years. I wonder how good the design could be today with the better full range 4" drivers available today, say with neodymium magnets, composite cones, cast frames, phase plu... |