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| I should start with speakers. This I know. I’d like to establish a new system. Whatever Volti that fits your budget should be a good starting point. It’s been a long time since I heard Cary so I don’t know how it sounds, but, you are looking in the right power range. You could go even lower in power, but don’t stint on qua... | |
| Voigt Pipe speakers still a thing? Thanks for bringing up Voigt design. It’s been a while since I heard such speakers. I bet it is a good time to consider such design given how many good fullrange drivers that are available now. | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound While I have voiced enthusiasm for open baffle speakers, this does come with the warning that dipole speakers often do not go very deep in bass response because the opposite phase front and back waves tend to cancel each other at progressively inc... | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound The Ellipticum Cinnamon Audio speaker I heard at the 2024 Capital AudioFest sounded really nice. It has a DSP-controlled active woofer, the rest of the speaker is powered by an amplifier supplied by the buyer. I thought it delivered one of the ... | |
| 12au7 tube? i don't know how good they are, but, a local dealer helped to sell off a very valuable collection of tubes. Included in the collection were something like eight original Genelex B749 tubes (12AU7 variant). These sold for north of $1,000 each. | |
| a 3 way design speaker with the ESS Heil type sound I like the PureAudioProject Trio with the Heil tweeter a lot, as well as the Duo speaker which has only one woofer. Both speakers are, however, two-way speakers. I don't know why three-way was specified. The Heil driver is capable of covering a... | |
| DAC/Streamer/PreAmp Can someone point me to that Best Buy mentioned above? There are a few things I would like to pick up there. | |
| High pitch buzz in speakers after adding some LEDs Someone told me about how he tracked down a noise problem to a string of LED lights his daughter put up in her bedroom which was on a different circuit, on a different floor of the house, and his audio system on powerline conditioning. He found h... | |
| What are the absolute legendary Snell model no.s? I liked the A/III and the big version of the Type B. The bass on the Type B was a bit much, but it was a lively sounding speaker. At least this is how I remember these speakers which I have not heard in a long while. | |
| SPEAKERS THAT SOUND ALIVE & DYNAMIC AT LOW LISTENING LEVELS The klipsch speakers are quite dynamic, and like many horn-based systems, they sound alive at low volume levels. But, they are on the crude and rough side. You would do better by paying up for Volti horn systems. I would also recommend the sing... | |
| soft dome versus hard dome tweeters There are many drivers of all sorts of design, soft dome, hard dome, compression drivers, ribbon, heil, etc. that sound good. One of my favorites is ancient—the Western Electric 597 fieldcoil compression tweeter. I heard the souped up G.I.P. La... | |
| Am I alone in the world using a 1997 high end pro sampler as a DAC? Jond, You DAC-3 measured poorly back in 1995 as would a current DAC-3. It doesn’t matter. Audio Note DACs are among the most natural sounding DACs around. I really like them a lot. | |
| Does VPI ADS work with Basis Gold Debut? To do speed change properly, as Basis sees it, you cannot split the two phases by simply using a capacitor in the motor; the correct way involves the motor controller delivering two different AC phases to the motor. That means the motor also has ... | |
| Marianne Faithfull This is quite sad news. I like her versions of a lot of music. In particular, I like her version of the song she co-wrote with Jagger--"Sister Morphine." | |
| Getting a Divorce and can now buy floor standing speakers I agree that there should not be imaging issues with the Harbeth speakers. I've heard several iterations of the 30s and they are all capable of good imaging. Proper placement of the speaker and the listener and proper treatment of the room shoul... |