jonwolfpell
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| Audio Research filing for bankruptcy? One can only hope that ARC failed financially due to upper level addiction or embezzlement issues & not due to a business model that no longer works in our crazy times & is truly unfixable. They make some beautifully sounding, high quality... | |
| Hidden Gems in Classic Rock Albums Linda Ronstadt's "Prisoner in Disguise" entire album is a great album & very well recorded & mastered by the late, great Doug Sax. The whole album sounds very good but Smokey Robinson's "Tracks of My Tears" is especially good. Great test... | |
| What does Nominal Impedance mean? I know this is a complicated subject & not as simple as this but the primary way to get decent, extended, deep bass that can play relatively loudly from smaller woofers ( less than 8” or so) is to have 2 or more of them usually wired in parall... | |
| JBL 4367 = Sleep Denervation That’s great & what all our systems should do for us & “soothe our savage beasts”! Good quality horn loaded speakers are capable of reproducing micro & macro dynamics like few other speakers can short of really pricey ones matched w/ h... | |
| NEAR Speakers Indentification Bozaks good woofers back in the day were 12” & required a few of them to have good bass. | |
| Good Suggestions for Tube Amps under 6k Rogers High Fidelity on their website has a pre - owned EHF 200 Mark II Integrated amp w/ full lifetime warranty! Very high quality, sounds excellent & quite powerful! 100 watts / side pure class A so it does put out some heat. About $15K new.... | |
| Speaker recommendations :-) If you a “live”, you are there sound, check out Volti Audio Rivals. They’re very sensitive, Horn loaded midrange & tweeters mated try o a a 15” ported woofer in a not crazy big, well made & well finished cabinet. They’re very dynamic at a... | |
| Was I Expecting Too Much Online sales has indeed hurt a lot of businesses but I think w/ mid fi equipment on up, the attention to proper handling, set up, service if needed, it’s wise to buy from an experienced dealer. Additionally, most of the better audio brands are no... | |
| Was I Expecting Too Much I have several owned successful restaurants over 40 + years & know something about guest service. That owner was being foolish & now probably lost the golden opportunity to gain another loyal customer. It’s a bit different In restaurants ... | |
| Reliability of Dan D'Agostino equipment At the prices the really high end equipment manufacturers charge, those products should not only sound great but do so for a long time w/ virtually no reliability issues! For myself, I judge whether to buy audio equipment or actually almost an... | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? I have always wondered what some of the really high end manufacturers expectations are w/ the really pricey stuff in terms of actual number of units sold. I suspect some of these products are intended to create or maintain a manufacturer's reput... | |
| Does anyone know where this J. Gordon Holt comes from? @tomcy6 . Great album by a great band! Susan is a really good guitarist & a great singer & Derek is probably the best rock / blues guitarist of our time now. So funny how you described their concert. Not 20 minutes into the show, a fai... | |
| Does anyone know where this J. Gordon Holt comes from? For myself, trying to recreate the live sound of whatever I’m listening to is exactly what I’m trying to do. I really enjoy systems that can sound live as opposed to highly detailed, overly etched “hifi” that like many high end speakers do. If y... | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? I have found over the years that a great test of a hi fi system is music that combines four things: full bodied vocals ( solo & harmonies), acoustic stringed instruments ( like acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, violin, stand up bass etc), ampl... | |
| Volti Experience ! Willy - I think a good 35 watts will easily drive the Rivals for all but the loudest levels in a big room. I think Stereophile measured them to be 98 db sensitive but I also think that can be misleading in & of itself. The watt meter on my Rog... |