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| good sounding low price speaker w/ front bass port "i really do not want to spend more than $500 for the speakers"There are many excellent front ported speakers available in this price range right now:Wharfedale Diamond 9.2 - discontinued but available from Internet dealers for under $300 new, or ... | |
| good sounding low price speaker w/ front bass port Other good choices with front firing port - Wharfedale Diamond 9.2, Usher S-520, B&W 685 | |
| Weak/tubby bass on old Philips 212 TT OK - I tried applying blutack in various places on the turntable and here is what I found:-placed between the hard plastic feet and the underlying wooden block - bass was more pronounced, but not necessarily cleaner; some loss of air and spatial c... | |
| Subwoofer setting "How do you explain the stomach-churning bass able to be produced in some car installations?" Don't confuse "pressure" with well-articulated sound at defined frequencies.If you use a test disk with separate signals at various frequencies and a sou... | |
| Weak/tubby bass on old Philips 212 TT Tpsonic,OK, I looked at your system pics, I get the idea. | |
| small audio/video system for elderly space Dwhitt, that sounds impressive. Nice to have the opportunity to build system from behind the walls and from below the ground up! | |
| Weak/tubby bass on old Philips 212 TT I will try the blutak too. | |
| Subwoofer setting If you have some compulsive bones in your body, get an audio test disk from Stereophile, or Radioshack, or download one off the internet and get a cheap digital sound meter from Radioshack and test where your main speakers roll off in your room. T... | |
| Weak/tubby bass on old Philips 212 TT Thanks Stanwal, I'll try that. The reason I think the bass problem is within the TT system is that it's present even with the the headphones on and the speakers turned off. Perhaps need better way to drain vibration away from the platter and arm, ... | |
| small audio/video system for elderly space Dwhitt,Would be interested in system review and pics once you get settled. | |
| CD player to complement Ml-23 / Odyssey Mono audio aero makes great players. If you can find one for under $2k, you should get it. At the nearly $2400 asking price for a new Prima, there are other choices you should also consider. | |
| New Linn Majik-i or Naim Nait 5i with Linn Ninkas If you don't need the other features, I would buy the Naim. I have heard no other integrated amp at that price point that I like as well as the Nait.One question. Can you bring your Linn speakers to a dealer and try them with the Naim just to make... | |
| small audio/video system for elderly space Dwhitt,Sounds like you made an excellent choice. ENJOY! | |
| Need $1500 integrated amplification suggestions... A bunch of good ideas here. A used Plinius 9100 if available is another good choice. Also, anything used in that price range from Blue Circle... | |
| CD player to complement Ml-23 / Odyssey Mono Cambridge 840CNAD M55Naim CD5iSimaudio Moon CD-1All solid state, but none suffer from SS jangles. For your music type, the upsampling Cambridge with balanced outputs (if available on your pre) may be the best of this lot, but you should try to aud... |