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| Attention Horn Owners The only way to know is to do a trial. Any change in sound could be for better or worse, depending on one's taste and the set of other components. If you are really able to get vintage Western Electric are, you are looking for old, multi-strand ... | |
| Attention Horn Owners I like the Klipsch heritage speakers even though they don't come close to some custom systems using truly great vintage compression drivers. Drivers of this quality haven't been made since the 1960's. Klipsch makes do with what one can find of m... | |
| TU-8900 upgrade The P3ESR is much more than adequate to hear ANY improvements in the upstream components. It is surprising how well all of these speakers based on the BBC LS3/5A speakers sound and how much they appreciate good upstream components. I've heard, a... | |
| Garrard 301 - Project So many owners of vintage idler tables put, or leave on, vintage tonearms to achieve the proper look. But, if one uses a state of the art modern arm on these tables, they are remarkable performers--lively, engaging and fun. Many will, even when ... | |
| Altec 414-8c 807 Speakers Onken style cabinet You have a very nice looking system. I am a fan of Onken bass reflex loading too. I have a system with twin 12" woofers in an Onken cabinet. My midrange horn is NOT built into the cabinet like yours, and instead, sits on top of the Onken cabine... | |
| help needed for new headphone system You need to hear as much as you can of alternatives on the market. The best way to do that is to go to a major regional audio show. At these shows, there is a section where headphone people display their wares. Even if you are not a headphone n... | |
| Attention Horn Owners I have never heard a Zu speaker that I could stand--very bright, lean and harsh sounding. I think it gets attention because it is extremely lively sounding, and that is a BIG contrast with most modern speakers which tend to sound lifeless. | |
| Attention Horn Owners As I mentioned above, I have not heard your amps, but the description suggests that it is very well done--the construction is good, it uses an interstage transformer to help drive the 300B properly, etc. Nonetheless, if you find the sound is not ... | |
| Thorens TD124 “Mk1”/Mk2 plinth lewm, It sounds like you employed some pretty heroic measures to get your plinth to perform as you like. You certainly know more than most how resonant behavior affects the sound. This is a tricky business as it is not simply the case of reduci... | |
| Thorens TD124 “Mk1”/Mk2 plinth The Woodsong plinth I saw was exquisite in terms of appearance. I have not seen an Artisan Fidelity table, but the pictures look very promising. | |
| Thorens TD124 “Mk1”/Mk2 plinth It has been been a while since I was on their site. It was either Schoppers in the past, or some other company that offered the non magnetically attracted cast iron subplatter. Schopper's current offering is bronze. I have no idea if it is as n... | |
| Thorens TD124 “Mk1”/Mk2 plinth The after-market Schoppers subplatter IS made of a type of cast iron similar in acoustic properties to the original subplatter. However, the cast iron is impregnated with a material that greatly decreases magnetic attraction; it was material supp... | |
| Attention Horn Owners My number one pet peeve about speaker manufacturers is the lack of driver controls on multi-way speakers. Do they really think the levels they chose are optimal for all listener preferences, all rooms, all locations of the speaker, all upstream e... | |
| Attention Horn Owners I really love the Charney Companion too, particularly with the AER BD 3 driver (I also heard them with the Voxativ driver option). I do generally prefer them over any of the Volti speakers I heard (and I like Volti a lot too), but, they are not t... | |
| Thorens TD124 “Mk1”/Mk2 plinth It has a different resonance characteristic. |