looie
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| McIntosh - is it that great? I always thought the slight edge in the sound was due to my horn speakers. But now, with a McIntosh preamp, the edge is gone! - After about 30 years, and preamps ranging from Heath to EICO to JBL to Yamaha to AGI to Quad to ARC. | |
| Why do no audio enthusiasts use McIntosh? A lot of them like to listen to music playback at full "threshold of feeling" volume. If they listened at normal comfortable household playback or quiet, don't-wake-the-family levels, there would be no audible bass (Fletcher-Munsen curves). With t... | |
| center spk for JBL s8r I built a small box center-channel speaker that sounds very similar to your JBL S8Rs. I use a 6-1/2 inch Fostex woofer, a JBL 175 driver/horn/lens midrange, and a JBL ring-radiator tweeter. Use car speakers for the rear-channels to get good bass i... | |
| McIntosh ss preamp vs. ARC tube preamp Superhonestben, Tumbler, Pwsdaddy, Dsremer, Aball;Thank you all for your input. Based on your statements, I will attempt to purchase a used ss McIntosh preamp to replace my tube ARC preamp. I didn't play my ARC much because I would have to disconn... | |
| Best Small Speakers The absolutely best sounding speakers for a small box (or even bigger ones) that I know of are from Helix, a German manufacturer. They are 4, 5, or 6.5 inch dia. car speakers. You can get them from Peter Lafrano at autofile@TheAutophile.com. Every... | |
| Center Channels sound crappy Right - no center channel needed for music, but it is necessary for movies if you want to hear the dialog clearly | |
| Inwall Speaker to match Revel Performa M20 & C30 I'm not familiar with the sound of the Revels, but I know of very uncolored small speakers that sound neutral, sparkling and exciting, with timbre similar to the great old JBL Hartsfield and Paragon speakers, which would cost about 8-10 thousand d... | |
| need help with tweeter hiss If your new amps are much higher powered than your old ones and do not have a very low internal noise level (signal-to-noise level), you may be hearing the residual noise of the new amplifiers. But that would be very rare in any of today's amplifi... | |
| Best Male Singers of the 20th Century WHAT?? Bob Dylan best singer? You MUST be joking! That spoiled, middle-class, New York city boy (old man, now)over-the-hill hippie (life is tough - the butler treats me mean and the cook won't make me no lunch)doesn't even have the least little bi... | |
| Center channel speaker which excels at dialogue Get a 4 or 5 inch dia. Helix coax car speaker (you may have to buy a pair, but so what? They only cost $120 per pair.) They sound far better than any of the usual small speakers you'll find in a typical upper-bracket Hi-Fi store. Put it in a littl... |