kingharold
Responses from kingharold
| Speaker and amp pairing High sensitivity speakers including big horns as I use always have more life like dynamics, immediacy and realism to me. | |
| To horn or not to horn In my previous post on this thread I called my Bill Fitzmaurice designed bass horns 25Hz 1/8 wave corner horns. They are instead 25Hz 1/4 wave horns. Just a brain fart I suppose. I wish we could edit posts on this forum. | |
| How long do good speakers last? In 1972 my wife and I bought a pair of Bose 901, Series 1. That was before Bose started using foam surrounds. They still play in our son's basement party room almost fifty years later. | |
| Possibly Dumb Question re:Battery as a power supply " I assume you are not married? " I was married up until July first of this year when Mary, my wife of fifty-one years, passed away. Even before that I could get away with many things other audiophiles can't because my wife was a true audiophi... | |
| Possibly Dumb Question re:Battery as a power supply Thanks for the responses. I hadn't considered that a fully charged 12V battery can provide 13.5 volts. Perhaps a bit more research is needed. I sure wouldn't want to mess up my first new turntable since I bought my VPI HW19 thirty or so years a... | |
| Possibly Dumb Question re:Battery as a power supply I just thought that I have a small 12V 1.25Amp Battery Tender Plus charger I used to keep my motorcycle battery topped up during the heat of Georgia summers when I didn't ride much. I could just hook it up when I wasn't listening. That obviates ... | |
| Adding a Turntable Mat For the last thirty five years I've used my old VPI HW19 without a mat other than a few times I tried mats. I prefer it naked. I've already bought but haven't yet received a new Clearaudio Performance DC Wood tt. I don't intend to use a mat either | |
| Sub woofera and Pet torture "I sawa YT vid where this guy has a speaker hitting deep sub bassDogs are howling, He is chucking...Who here understands that i cats and dogs have rights too??Not to mention neighbors.None of my music has notes below 40hz20hz is a sound effect fa... | |
| Midwoofer+Tweeter vs Wide band larryi2, I couldn't agree more. | |
| Owning the speakers you dreamed of 20 years ago When I was in my twenties I dreamed of owning a pair of Klipschorns. When I was in my sixties I bought a pair of Klipschorns to use the bass bins as part of a DIY horn system I was putting together. Needless to say I listened to them full range.... | |
| cassettes CAN sound better than vinyl. leemurray, your numerous posts about cassettes have aroused my interest enough that I think I will dust off my Nakamichi ZX7, and give it a listen again. | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear " The tonearm is made from an erector set ; 0 "From the OMA website:" The K3 tonearm is the creation of world renowned tonearm designer/maker Frank Schroder of Berlin. Frank created the K3 arm to be consistent with the project's innovative and ... | |
| Ortofon bronze PNP ALERT!!!!! " Let me say this,has anyone ever had all four pins come out of a cartridge body.No me either.They clearly were not glued in and pulled out easily with no effort "I had this happen with a Shinon Red Boron cartridge back in the 1980s. The entir... | |
| A turntable that plays all types of music well Miller Carbon, I quite enjoy your dry wit. | |
| New TT, Arm and MC Cartridge I finally pulled the trigger. I drove down to HiFi Buys in Atlanta yesterday and bought a Clearaudio Performance DC Wood turntable with the Tracer tone arm and an Ortofon Cadenza Bronze cartridge. Naturally I will have to wait several severa... |