larryi
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| Biggest "bang for the buck" audio gear you have owned(in your history)? The biggest improvement I made, and not for killer dollars, was when I bought my first pair of serious speakers--Magneplanar MG -I. | |
| Tang Band 2145 in action "revelatory"I can understand the enthusiasm of someone hearing a different kind of sound from speakers that are not conventional boxes. This can be hearing a good horn-based system for the first time, hearing a Walsh bending wave driver, an electr... | |
| shielded vs unshielded pros and cons? Who knows where noise can intrude in a system. I recently talked with a repair person for a local shop who had to run down RFI problems in a system. It turns out that the long speaker cables were acting as an antenna and injected noise into the ... | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? My phono stage came with a built in SUT, so I haven't fooled around much with different SUT. I tried a super expensive Audio Note SUT feeding the phono stage in my preamp, but, I could never sufficiently ameliorate hum, so I haven't used that bui... | |
| Tang Band 2145 in action It is great to hear about someone discovering something that is, for this person, new and exciting. But, it is unfair to declare that everyone else is ignorant, a fool for spending on something else, or a victim of a corrupt society because they ... | |
| shielded vs unshielded pros and cons? Many years ago, I tried the shielded and unshielded version of otherwise identical Kimber cable between my tonearm and phono stage. At this very noise sensitive location, noise intruded with the unshielded cable, but the sound was better—more liv... | |
| Tang Band 2145 in action For my taste, the 756 with a tweeter is considerably better and more versatile (sounds good with more types of music) than the 755. | |
| Auditioning headphones (ethically)? Yes, you can audition reasonably well at a show. The noise levels are not so high as to make it impossible to hear what a phone is capable of delivering. Unlike auditioning speakers, you don't have to be concerned about how the room is affecting... | |
| Midwoofer+Tweeter vs Wide band kingharold,I find your description of your DIY system very interesting. I too really like the AER BD series of wide-range drivers and I really like the idea of using them as a wide-range midrange driver. When the vast majority of the lower midra... | |
| If I could afford, I’d purchase 100% Oswald Mills Audio gear I would like to hear their stuff. If it sounds good, then the price is something each prospective customer has to decide whether or not to pay and it is not for others to decide whether it is ridiculous. Small production products of proprietary ... | |
| Looking for a tube preamp with remote control. The Placette RVC is a very nice unit. Many years ago, I tried it in my system, but, I ended up buying their active linestage (unity gain buffer) because it sounded a bit more dynamic. But, you already have a nice linestage, so the remote volume ... | |
| Raising standmount speakers I would agree that tilting the speaker backward is the easiest and cheapest thing to try and will most likely be successful. Any adjustment affects a number of variables so it is not that easy to know the outcome. For example, getting a taller s... | |
| Looking for a tube preamp with remote control. I like the idea of a passive remote volume control add-on. The best, to me, are transformer-based volume controllers because they don't degrade dynamics (liveliness) as much as other forms of passive volume controls. I like the Myemia control be... | |
| Sweet new tube amp needs better speakers I’ve heard the ProAc DT 8 powered by tube amps of similar output and I liked what I heard. I heard the Zu speakers powered by solid state amps. The Zu’s are extremely dynamic and exciting, but they have a hard edge to the attack of notes and can... | |
| Sweet new tube amp needs better speakers Just a bit outside of your price range is the Klipsch Forte IV system. This is a speaker that works quite well with tube electronics. Given the 99 db/w at 8 ohm efficiency of this speaker, your 30 watts are way more than capable of driving the s... |