jonwolfpell
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| Your single most significant purchase mistake? My first turntable in 1974- BIC 940 belt drive. What a POS! I think it was designed engineered ok, just poor quality of materials & construction. The fluid in cueing system leaked on early & would drop the needle on the record faster than ... | |
| Decisive moments your your audio journey Great stuff here many of which I can relate to. I've had many different revelatory moments listening to music along way. The initial one was hearing what good, tight & defined bass can sound like on stacked large Advents in too small a room th... | |
| Dunlavy SC IV Speaker- Any Good??? I owned the big Duntechs (forerunners of the Dunlavys) back in the 80"s & they were substantially better in just about every way than anything else available at that time other than maybe the Infinity IRS & the bigger Apogees. The had no ... | |
| Will An Anthem AV Receiver Benefit From An Aftermarket Power Cable Don’t sell you Anthem receiver short! It’s an excellent piece of equipment which can sound really good. A good power cord should make a noticeable improvement especially if you push the receiver & play your system loudly & draw some real c... | |
| K-horn won't fit, any other corner speakers recommended for a big room? Volti Audio Rivals. Better than the K horns in just about every way imo. That said, the new K horns do not need to go right in the corners. The design has been slightly modified & efrcticreate their own corners with their new cabinets. | |
| starting equiment that ic cold from being shipped Some funny responses. I once blew up an older TV with a picture tube turning it on when I had just taken it out of my garage in winter. It arced, smoked & made some horrible noises in its dying moment. Picture didn’t actually implode which mig... | |
| Question about Class A Rogers High Fidelity EFH 200 Mark III !! Great tube integrated amp 100 watts / channel Class A. Hand made in MA w/ top quality parts & point to point wiring. Great sound, great build quality & lifetime warranty. Amongst the very best. | |
| Power Conditioners Any & at all price points. I have minimal experience w/ them & want to hear people's thoughts on my questions. | |
| Long live Rock? 2022 R&R HOF I understand that I’m not following the directions specified in the original post but I rarely have done so in my life & I’m happy. Until the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame includes & in fact dedicates at least half a “ show” to Ian Anderse... | |
| Burn in period Love the comments! Hilarious. I am not sure about cables having to “break in” to sound their best. It could be simply that it’s our ears & mind getting accustomed to the new sound?? No doubt cables of all types in a system sound differently fr... | |
| How does solo piano help you evaluate audio gear? While I agree that we’ll recorded piano is excellent in some ways for testing speakers & whole systems in terms of tone, body & real subtlety, I think in many ways well recorded drums can be even better. Bass drums, tom toms, snares, cy... | |
| High End Intergraded comparisons, Marantz, McIntosh, Levinson, Luxman.... You might consider one of the Rogers High Fidelity tube integrateds. Great sound, powerful, tight & nuanced like only the best solid state amps can do. Rock solid build quality, point to point wiring, full lifetime warranty! Pricey but worth i... | |
| Why People Like Tekton Tektons have one tweeter? Sure looks like they have MANY from the pics on their website…… I’ve never heard them & I’m all for smaller manufacturers to compete with the often overpriced big names. I’m just curious about their design & how s... | |
| Why People Like Tekton Some funny comments here! What I don’t understand & hopefully someone can help is how many speakers have only one tweeter & sound relatively balanced w/ nice extended high end & others like Tektons , McIntosh etc have many tweeters &am... | |
| The worst sentence in audio writing It seems to me that Erik may have reached the limit of one or more of the following: patience, funding, live music listening experience, the weak link of his particular system. There are so many diverse aspects of music & musical reproduc... |