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| WILL THE NEW 60,000 AVALON ISIS BE THE BEST YET? My perspective is one of a hobbyist speaker builder.Over the last 25 years I have owned and built all sorts of speakers.Before people spend $60000 on a pair of speakers they do need consider value for money.All speakers are flawed.Once you reach a... | |
| Here's a challenge:a class A sound system for less Bartkofan,More people need to put systems together like yours.This is the future of high end value.Kit speakers,direct purchases from manufacturers and use of cheap cables that still sound good.Well done!Why pay exhorbitant retail mark up and infl... | |
| Efficient full range floorstanders to match SET It might pay to consider some of the ESS speakers.I have an old pair of PS5Cs which are one of the few speakers that do really good bass with a 23 watt tube amp.If you like ribbon sound you should check out their latest offerings-and you can buy d... | |
| Wanted:Warm, Sweet preamp. I have owned warm sweet sounding preamps such as Croft Super Micro,Glass Audio kit and NEW valve.These are typical of simple tube preamps.They can have lovely mids and highs but tend to lack speed and snap.So on balance they are not worth owning.I... | |
| Do Physicists Or Musicians Design Better Speakers? A good topic.Has anyone noticed that a lot of musicians have a real thing for old Luxman amplifiers.Most of the musicians I know own these.These certainly have a very sweet sound but I can't really hear anything unique or special about them.But ma... | |
| Classic speakers to hunt down used Whart,You should not be surprised about going from stats to horns.They both have the same magic ingredient and this is that they energise the air in your room.Box speakers just don't do this.This is why people who pay $60000 for Avalon or Wilson s... | |
| which preamp sounds most transparent? I ran passive preamps and no preamps for years because I got sick of spending money on active preamps that were no more than fixed position equalisers.A good active preamp does however give better drive,bass articulation and image focus.Even the c... | |
| ? Integrated amp, rich warm midrange, tight bass Shoe,The best way to get a warmer mid is to change to carbon fibre interconnect cables like Van den Hul The First or The First Ultimate.The imaging and coherence of these is also superb.This is not a slight change,it is signifigant.Also if you are... | |
| Is KEF no longer relevant? It should be remembered that not all old KEF speakers were good.Todays KEFs are probably more consistent.Hi Fi World magazine has done group tests of speakers and have rated the KEFs very highly.The concept of mounting a tweeter in the middle of t... | |
| Anyone try Townshend Super Tweeters? Any decent ribbon tweeter will work well as super tweeters.I use Fountek JP2s with 1 or 0.5 mF caps.Other friends use Ravens or Fostex.Some attenuation using resistors may be required.Many of the high priced super tweeters look like rip offs to me... | |
| best speakers for vocals? Semi,What you say about dome mids is true tonally.Unfortunately this does not translate to really good imaging though.I have used many domes and none of them have well focussed imaging.Cones and stats are much better in this regard.The Edgar Mid h... | |
| best speakers for vocals? The 300b valve is another important ingredient to consider.These struggle to drive many speakers though-certainly most stats.The alternative is to use a 300b preamp like the Supratek Cabernet.JT | |
| best speakers for vocals? Nothing comes close to electrostats in these areas.Once you live with them for a while you come to realise how tonally wrong and box bound dynamic speakers sound.Other than that the Edgar midrange horns are pretty good and if you really want box s... | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody I am now using TJ meshplate PX4s.These sound better than the EH 300bs.Maybe not as expressive as the TJ 300bs but tonally similar and probably tighter bass.JT | |
| Supratek Tubes and Tube Swappin' for Everybody Larry,I have used the TJ and the EH 300bs.They are quite different sounding.The EH sounds much drier.On balance I much prefer the TJ meshplate although on initial listening I thought the EH was better.The TJ sounds more valvey I guess.I have also ... |