kotta
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| What makes your Home Theater system Went to a heck of alot of movies in the 70's in L.A. I miss those theaters. Some were very grand & elegant (L.A Wilshire Theater. I believed they had the good sense to restore this landmark.) Reasonable prices too. $1.25-$2.00 for two flicks! ... | |
| Terminating Type 4 cable... I believe there are two red and two black wires inside this cable. Combine the two red to the (+) positive terminal. Combine the two black wires to the (-) negitive terminal. If your speakers have binding posts I suggest you attach them directly, ... | |
| Small Speakers 4 a Small System w/ Advent Receiver For around $100 or under, I'd consider Energy XL-15 bookshelf spks. Excellent build quality and they can be mounted w/ the excellent (but expensive) Energy wall mounting brackets. Another possiblity, the very small DCM CX-007's. You'd might want t... | |
| Is there anything better then Sunday Morning Jazz? If I'm not working, I like to listen to the "Dead-Head Hour" @ 10 am Sun. morning from a local radio station. In the afternoon, the PBS station plays folk, celtic music. Then in the evenings, this same PBS station will play jazz,classical,big band... | |
| Are smaller high end speakers really better I remember very vividly the '67 Mustage I drove in H.S. Driving School. That car was a blast to drive. The way it drove, rolled, and accerated was wonderful. Nice forum topic. I liked the way Mfkeleher put it. I've been putting together systems to... | |
| Matching Speakers to an Arcam A75 Plus IMO, you need to find an efficient floorstander whose impedence doesn't dip too low. Not familiar w/newer Arcam int. amps, but owned the Alpha 10 which I felt was very smooth sounding sounding but felt very weak in relation to it's stated power ou... | |
| Recommended vintage amps. If you could find yourself some 80's Sony int. amps which say "Legato" and "ACT" in excellent sonic/cosmetic condition, go for it. I picked up an Sony AX-6 (which has "Legato/ACT") and its an extremely fine sounding amp. (Paid $110 inc. s/h., beca... | |
| Review : Sugden A21a Int Amp I love using int. amps. Of all the ones I tried... Naim, Bryston, Arcam, Nad, Sony, Kenwood, Kora, etc...I've always wanted to try the MFD Mistral and the Sugden A21a. I wish you many hours of enjoyment! Last time I looked, NorthCountry Audio carr... | |
| Preamp or "U" jumpers: where to buy, choices? One Call (www.onecall.com) is selling Audioquest U-jumpers IC's for $39. | |
| speaker suggestions for modest arcam alpha system Check out the Dali bookshelf spks. on www.canadianhifi.com They also list a used pr. of ATC bookshelf spk. for around $650. For floorstanders one dealer is advertising some new Morel's for $849. Personally I haven't heard them, but they seem quite... | |
| Tuner recommendations Some of the best inexpensive tuners are early 80's Sony's. Just compared a Sony ST-J75 to my Kenwood KT-7300 and they were both excellent sounding, but the Kenwood was slightly better IMO. A nice feature of the Sony is the pre-sets. In my daughter... | |
| Details don't mean a thing Many times highly refined equipment needs highly refined associated carefully matched equipment to sound good. I'm listening to two mid-80's NEC CDP's which sounds awfully good especially considering I paid $10/$44. One of the CDP's, a mint one-ow... | |
| Best integrated Tube amp as an intro to tubes You might consider a hybrid int. amp as well. All that you would need to replace would be the small input tubes(12at7/12ax7's)which does not cost a small fortune. I too was curious about getting into tubes. My first venture was the Jolida 102b bec... | |
| listener fatigue? go analogue. Not knowing what spk. wires you are using w/your B&W's, it might help soomth out the sound by going to bare-wire connections all around. The Kimber 8VS would be an excellent/affordable wire to consider. I agree, vinyl sounds better to my ear a... | |
| Epos els 3 vs Triangle Titus $300 range new/used.. Consider a used pair of Energy XL-15's for around $100. Also, the Energy C-1 is a very fine loudspeaker which could be bought new for around $220. Excellent build quality. Also, both can use the superbly designed screw-on wall mounting bracket whi... |