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| Recommendation Tube Integrated I agree with the poster above who recommended the Synthesis A100 Titan. It is a rich, smooth and natural sounding amp with lots of punch too. I heard 40.2 with that amp or its little brother, the A40 (single pair of KT 66 tubes per channel vs. f... | |
| Pianos Angela Hewitt has also sung the praises of Stuart and Sons pianos made in Australia. That is Australia, not Austria. | |
| Open baffle speakers Bache, Which commercial OB speaker did you hear that you found wanting in bass response? What was it like otherwise? I am surprised by how decent bass can be even with the dipole cancellation and the lack of reinforcement from bass reflex or se... | |
| Do Harbeth speakers really need a 4000 damping factor? Damping factor is an amplifier measurement. It is 8 divided by the output impedance of the amp. Almost all solid state amps have an output impedance so low that the resulting damping factor is WAY in excess of anything meaningful as to the sound... | |
| Music server recommendations needed. You need something to rip your CDs, a means of storing those ripped files, backup storage so you don't lose all those ripped files if the hard drive storing the files dies, and a server/dac to play back the files. These can be combined in one or ... | |
| Proac Response 3.8 stereo imaging is not centered This is a very good speaker that is very much worth fixing. A factory supplied driver is the best approach. Even if an off-the-shelf ScanSpeak driver would work, you will have some lingering doubts that might hurt your ability to enjoy this fine... | |
| Open baffle speakers I never even considered that imaging would be a problem with open baffle speakers. They do a good job when correctly placed, as do most other types of speakers. In many respects, they are not much different from panel speakers, like Maggies, whi... | |
| Do Harbeth speakers really need a 4000 damping factor? I’ve heard them with tube amps and they sounded good. I don’t know the DF of these amps, but I would be surprised if any was much above 8 or so. | |
| Open baffle speakers My all time favorite open baffle speaker is really an open back speaker. It had a Jensen M 10 field coil (13”) driver running full range with a high pass to a tweeter helping way on top. This was a killer good speaker, but the $30 k for a matche... | |
| Open baffle speakers Open baffle speakers have many virtues, very deep bass is NOT one of them because the front and back waves of the drivers are out of phase and bass frequencies wrap around the speaker and cancel each other. One could use subwoofers or box woofers... | |
| Solid State preamp Brands jim2, Wow! that is quite the collection of Ayre gear. I like their linestage, amplifiers and integrated amps, never heard a bad one, but, I have not heard their DACs. I don't mind the odd quirks, like the mechanical movement of their rotary ste... | |
| Proac Response 3.8 stereo imaging is not centered Yes, if it is easy to do, the driver swap will confirm that is, or is not the issue. I hope it is not because drivers can be expensive. The ideal would be a driver from the manufacturer. The original driver may be a custom job. It is quite eas... | |
| Proac Response 3.8 stereo imaging is not centered You should check the capacitors in the crossover, they are the most likely thing to fail apart from the driver itself. These have to be removed from the circuit to do an actual test. If you have an ESR meter (equivalent series resistance) you ca... | |
| Gold coated brass speaker spades A local dealer had an unhappy customer come in with cables the customer bought on the internet which he thought sounded crappy. I heard it and it was indeed crappy, particularly surprising because the cables were supposedly ultra expensive Audio ... | |
| Proac Response 3.8 stereo imaging is not centered You can try experimenting with speaker placement. Even a small difference in location, toe-in etc. can affect imaging. If you put the speakers at exactly the same spot as your previous pair, the new speakers and old may interact differently with... |