kotta
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| Small monitors for a dear aunt A fantastic int. amp to consider for your aunt would be Jolida's 301A. ($350 Retail) Compact and superb sounding. Speakers to consider in addition to the previous ones mentioned would be Totem Mite, Ruark Icon, Alon Li'l Rascal. | |
| cd player with volume control - under 500 Consider a Yamaha CDC-655.(5-Disc) It has variable output controlled by either front panel or remote. Very nice sounding CD Player. IMO sounds nicer than the Denon DCM-460which I've also owned at a time (for a very short period oftime.) Another po... | |
| Which speakers work close to back wall? Spendor S 3/5, and the Harbeth HL-P3es2 would make excellentchoices for your needs. Both sound very musical and depending on your equipment/musical preferences/room dimensions one of these loudspeakers should suit you well. | |
| Class A/B switching cause sonic problems? From all that I have read on this subject, my personalopinion is that class A is sonically superior. PresentlyI own a Bryston B-60R int. amp that I enjoy greatly, but,I decided when funds become available I'll be going with aSugden A-21 Class A in... | |
| Cheap A/V Receiver with A/B speaker outs AND phono Look into Sherwood receivers. (www.spearitsound.com) Theyhave a R-725 for $279 that might suit your needs. Also,visit Sherwood's web-site for additional info. Good Luck, Bill. | |
| Best Full Range Speaker, 750- 1k Hi Eric. When you mention you value musicality and engagingsound, Spendor 3/1, 2/3 and Harbeth HL-P3ES2 comes to mind.The Harbeth's are the finest mini-monitors that I've heard. Later add a sub if more bass is needed. Glorious sounding speaker wit... | |
| Spendor S 3/5 with Antique Sound Labs Wave 8 I would be cautious using a 8 watt amp driving those speakers. (84db/8 ohm) I see no problem w/ a tube ampdriving those speakers, but, higher power would be required,IMO. Jolida has quite a few products that might serve yourneeds. The only concern... | |
| jumpers versus golden plates Positive + (high/low) to lower positive binding post. Negi-tive - (high/low) to lower negative binding post. Eliminatesone set of binding post and any jumper wires. Will sounddifferent, better or worst...your call! Many ways to experi-ment. Bill | |
| jumpers versus golden plates One other idea you might consider. Remove the box that houses your binding posts, connect the high and low freq.wires together on the lower binding post. (BE sure to markwhich wire goes where.) Depending on how the wires are terminated, relatively... | |
| Recommend speakers I would say give PSB Bronze/Silver a look. I've noticedquite a few ads at quite reasonable prices. Vandersteens/ProAc would also merit consideration. Buying pre-owned should save you quite a bit and if you were to decide toresale, you shouldn't be... | |
| VINTAGE AR2- RESTORE, SELL OR JUNK ? If you like this spks so much and the drivers a X-over arefine I would restore the finish/grills. How much could you get for them? I doubt it would be worth it to you. I doubtI will ever part with my first Int. amp/tuner (Kenwood KA-7100/KT-7300) ... | |
| Optimal Speaker Placement Look up this web site: www.high-endaudio.com/ Go to LINKSClick on Magazines/Etc. (The Audio Perfectionist) A veryinteresting/useful source of opinion. Bill | |
| Mini-systems Recently I purchased a Sony RB-5 ($199 retail) for my daughter and it looks/sounds very good in her bedroom. I'm not sure if it has an alarm. (I replaced the stock speaker wires. 24ga.with a single strand of Kimber Kable 4VS for +/- and thisreally... | |
| best 100- 200 used interconnect Phil, consider Van den Hul d 102 interconnects. A wonderfulproduct. I have used a Kimber Kable "Hero" in my system andIMO it will not provide what you're looking for. For the money, (Aprx.$120) the VDH is superb value. Bill | |
| Terminations In my opinion, bare wire sounds the best. If you're con-cerned about strands of wire coming apart, apply silversolder ay the very end of the wire. Make the point of con-tact on bare wire.(Especially easy on the spk. end.)If you're spks. are bi-wir... |