krisjan
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| Speaker life expectancy: How long can you buy used Oops! My EV Patricians are 40 years old (not 30 as I indicated). They are from ther late 60's. And, again, they still sound great. | |
| Speaker life expectancy: How long can you buy used I don't know about more recent vintage speakers, but I have a mint pair of Electrovoice Patrician 800's that are 30 years old and they sound fantastic. When new, these were perhaps the best speaker in the world and 30 years later, I can understand... | |
| $40.000 speaker advise. Check out my list Many producers of classical recordings use excellent playback equipment during monitoring (eg Telarc). Give me a violn, a cello, a piano recording and I will at least have a chance at judging the accuracy of a piece of stero equipment. You can for... | |
| Marantz SA7S1 The PF review is also just about worthless IMO. The reviewer did not reference any of the specific recordings he used in his "review" and all the listening was done via headphones. The evaluation was focused on how the Marantz compared to the modd... | |
| $40.000 speaker advise. Check out my list Jkalman - I'm curious to know what your sound reference is? I always use acoustic instruments when evaluating equipment because I know what real violins, cellos and pianos sound like. For those instruments, I've never heard a Vandersteen speaker s... | |
| Anybody tube rolled 845's? I've only compared the 845B's to the original Cary tubes in the 211's. My system gets almost daily use. That means I will probably need to replace tubes every 15 months or so. For me, its a matter of cost/value relationship - for the price, the 84... | |
| Anybody tube rolled 845's? I should add that biasing with the Shuguang 845B's is rock steady. I don't get the slow drift I had with the stock 845's.Mark | |
| Anybody tube rolled 845's? Hi,My 211's are 15 months old and I just retubed and replaced the stock Cary tubes. For the 845's, I went with the Shuguang 845B's and I agree with Kehut that they are a nice upgrade over the stock Cary Chinese 845's. These are a very very good ev... | |
| Question for Cary 306SACD owners I bought my 306 used and it had ~300 hours on it when I got it. I really didn't hear much in the way of break-in when I put it into my system (about 9 months ago). It continues to sound great on RBCD/HDCD and SACD.As to the filters, I almost alway... | |
| Want something more forgiving than Vandy 3a sigs One more thing comes to mind - try tilting the 3A's back some more. This should help.Mark | |
| Want something more forgiving than Vandy 3a sigs Wow, I am very suprised to see your comments. As a 3A Sig owner, I find their treble response to be among the most natural sounding of any speaker I've heard with the vast majority of "audiophile" speakers being much too hot in the treble. Anyhow,... | |
| SET for 88 dB 4 ohm loadspeaker I had used Antique Sound Labs Explorer monoblocks (about 45 watts SET based on the 805 triode) to good effect with Spendor SP 1/2E's in a small room (156 sq ft). The Spendor's are 88 dB sensitivity. I never ran out of volume with that combo. I pla... | |
| Vandersteen Model 3A Signature Review Pmotz - thanks for the kind words.Mark | |
| Vandersteen Model 3A Signature Review Oops. The Fischer Mahler 2 is on Channel Classics, not Pentatone. | |
| cary 306sacd breakin Gosh Alpass, if you read the posts from me and others your question has been answered (from actual 306 owners with lots of time on their machines). What more are you looking for???Mark |