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| 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 ... | |
| tube amps with El 34s your favorites ?? I have an old pair of Trimax EL34s.These were Australian Broadcasting Commission monitoring amps from the 60s.The transformer quality in these is legendary.These are very modern sounding amps with fantastic bass.I believe they use one of the class... | |
| Dynaco ST-120 amp output cap coil? Audio Asylum has a Dynaco forum.You could try a post there.I own one of these in perfect order.They do hum a bit but sound pretty good.[for a transistor amp].They seem to have a particular affinity to Van Morrison and old BBC monitor type speakers... | |
| Accurate vs Musical The term accurate speakers is surely an oxymoron.No speaker I have heard ever captures the scale and dynamics of the real thing.So how can it be accurate?The only speakers that come close to real world dynamics are horns and they usually have flaw... | |
| WILL THE NEW 60,000 AVALON ISIS BE THE BEST YET? My post was not made to diminish any particular persons enjoyment of a recently selected item.It was just a caution to prospective buyers not to be "sheep" when it comes to such a purchase and to consider the alternatives.It was intended to be tak... | |
| WILL THE NEW 60,000 AVALON ISIS BE THE BEST YET? Sirspeedy, Well marketing companies would love you.Imagine what the retail margin must be on these if their retail price is $60000 and somebody is selling them for $42000 and obviously still making a healthy profit.Of course dealers are going to w... | |
| opinions on bookshelf monitors: proac v. ae You should consider some of the kits available.Look at the Madisound Kits etc.Many of these are as good as Proacs and the like but about 25% the cost.You could then afford something with the absolute best in driver technology and many of these kit... | |
| Supratek preamps--more laid back or forward ? Hi Opus,I don't think you could have made a better Hi Fi decision.I have a Cabernet but live near Supratek and have heard all of the preamps.They are all good in their own way.The cortese is arguably the best value of them all [arguably the best v... | |
| decent integrated to replace NAD 3400 Don't the Jungsons have reliability issues?I read some posts on this somewhere.JT |