mapman
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| Here I go, shooting myself in the foot "charging a couple of bucks for the same tube that's now being sold for hundreds"I used to sell tubes in Radio Shack and Lafayette Radio, mid to late 70s.Most sold in $4-$20 range as I recall.Big Bucks today....People need to realize that tube gea... | |
| Audio's Biggest Loser? Speakers and amps tend to be the biggest/heaviest.Class D Icepower amps push the limit regarding power output in a small efficient package.Speakers will depend largely on room size. Lots of small packages that work well in smaller room. The OHM Wa... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Dukes of Dixieland on 1959 Audio Fidelity vinyl. Nice! Interesting technical specs regarding the recording on the album cover. Hi Fi was a big deal back then and some labels really made an all out assault on sound quality and people took notice.Th... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave It took me years to achieve it, but now my best recipe or great bass for reasonable cost are newer OHM series 3 or X000 series Walsh speakers driven by a good 500w/ch Icepower AMP. MIT networked ICs seem to work well in this combo.Set this up well... | |
| Hi efficient speaker, bass problems Most speakers I have heard that do bass well are not considered high efficiency.I do not have enough experience with high end high efficiecy speakers to say.I think I notice it with more common commercial and other horn designs I have heard but th... | |
| Beatles USB via Squeezebox Touch I use lossless .wav. The sound quality is top notch. I would not worry about that. That's assuming the conversion software works properly as one would expect.The location of the source music files on the computer is also not a factor in sound qual... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave The reason most hifi home audio gear has almost always been spec'ed from 20hz-20000khz is because that covers the useful range in the audio spectrum that people can generally hear.Individual hearing ability varies though. Many cannot hear this ful... | |
| Beatles USB via Squeezebox Touch Probably a good idea to copy the files to disk and play from there, similar to ripping a CD, but should be much faster than ripping.That will save wear and tear on the source usb device. Better to store that away in a safe place. | |
| Beatles USB via Squeezebox Touch Hmm, I have no clue but I hope someone can help.Sounds like we've reached the day where a computer science degree may be required just to be able to play the music we buy in the store.Hey Pettyofficer, where are you?Maybe PO is right?Personally, m... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? "I guess when you find something that works so well, why change it?"I tend to agree.ICs, particularly used ones that can be resold easily without taking a loss, are relatively easy things to tinker with though if one gets the urge to try some diff... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave I cared more about a clear high end when I started and when I was younger with younger ears.My first good speakers used Heil Air Motion Transformers to that end for better or for worse.I realized the importance of a quality and complete low end to... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave "How else to listen to your Yello collection?"Oh Yeah!! | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Whoops, sorry.The correct name of the store on ebay I referenced above is "essentialhifitweak", not "Essential Audio Tweaks" as I indicated.http://stores.ebay.com/essentialhifitweakI have found their stufff to offer good value and their descriptio... | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave Hack,10 systems?Rock on! | |
| Why the obsession with the lowest octave BTW, despite all appearances otherwise, let me make it clear that I am NOT obsessed with the lower octave.I prefer to call it "enamored"........ |