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| Do I upgrade my Cerwin Vegas S1's from the 70's Johnyd,You are probably not going to get much response here because you mentioned Cerwin Vega and this is a bit of an elitist site.Unfortunately many of the more recent Cerwin Vegas are pretty crude devices in a loud and bass crazy sort of way.Som... | |
| Speaker 101 - tweeter and cone materials There are good and bad sounding speakers using all sorts of cone material.More important is cone suspension/surrounds.Most modern speakers use quite thick rubber surrounds which allows for long cone excursion, which allows them to produce lots of ... | |
| Daedalus DA-1: How Good Are They? Dodgealum,Thanks for bringing these speakers to light.Reading Lous coments about the drivers pretty much ties in with my beliefs based on building and owning all sorts of speakers.High efficiency drivers with stiff suspensions and short excursions... | |
| Daedalus DA-1: How Good Are They? Dodgealium,Nice review.Can you tell me what timber is used in these speakers?I have often thought that properly designed solid timber speakers would sound special.Some of the worst sounding speakers I have heard have been ones with heavily damped ... | |
| Tube amp for Avalon Eidolon ? In my experience you only get the magic of valves with efficient speakers.This is regardless of the power of the valve amps.I think you are chasing rainbows really.The low sensitivity and complex crossovers of your speakers means they will never b... | |
| Help me with Speakers Now plz. I'm sure you would get a better response if you didn't spell please plz!This sort of thing really annoys us grumpy old men.JT | |
| Speaker depreciation: Is there a rule of thumb? The rule of thumb is never to buy new if you can buy the equivalent second hand.Hi Fi gear can depreciate rapidly.If I buy second hand I look to buy it for a third of its new retail price and if the product is more than 3 years old this is very of... | |
| Upgrade from Spendor BC-1: need ideas I have owned a few BC1 type speakers and have enjoyed them all.B&W DM2s,Rogers Export Monitors and Tangent RS4s all have a similar drivers and sound.I owned the RS4s for many years and foolishly sold them.There is just something right about th... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I have to concurr with SteveM.I have tried TJ meshplate PX4s,EH 300Bs and TJ meshplate 300Bs in my Cabernet.The TJ 300Bs are vastly better.They have utterly amazing treble and a lovely double cream sort of richness without any loss in vibrancy.In ... | |
| ESS speakers "Translinear" Transstatic Sunnyjim,interesting stuff.I have some Crown ES212s which use similar RTR made stat panels.The Crowns use 12 5inch stat panels arranged in a curved screen 3 high by 4 wide.The bass [below 350hz] is handled by two ten inch woofers in a sealed box.E... | |
| Tips for warming up Rotel + B&W system? StuartK,It is possible that one of your speakers is out of phase.This would cause a lightweight bright sound.Even if they are wired up correctly there is a chance that one or more elements are incorrectly connected.Most obvious would be one of the... | |
| Tips for warming up Rotel + B&W system? I would try Van Den Hul carbon fibre interconnects [The First or First Ultimate]Also solid core copper speaker cables.The lesson?Never buy a system until you have heard it in your room.JT | |
| Do you know of small speakers that sound ''BIG'' ? Mdhoover,fair enough,you have convinced me these Intuitive Design speakers must be something special.I don't know if I will ever get to hear a pair in Australia though[imagine the shipping costs].As far as speed and smoothness goes I tend to agree... | |
| Do you know of small speakers that sound ''BIG'' ? Mdhoover,great review.Are the mid/woofers in these the Scanspeak 7 inch?Friends used these in Proac 2.5 copies.If so I can imagine the sound.They do produce a very full sounding bass and a smooth and rich sounding midrange with good imaging.Proac ... | |
| Do you know of small speakers that sound ''BIG'' ? Mdhoover,I just looked at the Intuitive Design website.I'm not saying your wrong .How could you not believe such a spiel?Very compelling stuff and obviously great science involved[cryogenics even]Almost as good science as Intelligent Design.JT |