mapman
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| Recommended new speakers for under $500? I'd take PSB over Usher in general and agree with Johnny's assessment. | |
| Why is the price of new tonearms so high FWIW, what Quiddity is saying makes sense to me.IS it accurate to state that the combo of cartridge/compliance and tone arm together matters greatly? A great or expensive tonearm with mismatched cartridge/compliance still won't work well, right? | |
| New vinyl's noisy little secret Other issues aside, if you want to reap the sonic benefits of vinyl, you had best always be prepared to clean as needed first before panicking when something doesn't sound right. Having said that, when I used to buy new records, my expectation was... | |
| Recommended new speakers for under $500? Check out these:http://cgi.ebay.com/Pair-of-Ohm-Super-FRS-7-SBA-Speakers-music-home-theater_W0QQitemZ260311315505QQcmdZViewItemQQptZSpeakers_Subwoofers?hash=item3c9bc37431&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14.l1262&_trkparms=|293%3A1|294%3A30 | |
| centering the human voice "speakers do not have to be placed symmetrically in a room to sound right"No doubt. | |
| New vinyl's noisy little secret "I usually heard the music from those albums on my plastic-bodied Zenith AM clock radio, so when I play these records now on my relatively hi-rez system, revelations abound."Yes, I agree.I suspect a lot of us heard some really good recordings back... | |
| It is all about the ‘Room’, thinks Toole. That all jives with me.I have my Walsh omni speakers within 2 feet of sidewalls in two separate rooms and this does benefit sound stage width. For more directional designs, more lively sidewalls might be needed for similar effect.Some people do li... | |
| Maggies with no Sub: Fantastic surprise I've heard smaller Rel subs (not sure of model) dialed in very well with the big Maggie 20.s in my favorite local dealers system.Glad its working out for you. | |
| Are Bang and Olufsen turntables any good? I'd put a good matching cartridge in the beast as indicated by others and go with it. I suspect it will do quite well. | |
| centering the human voice Can we assume the voices you are trying to center are recorded that way?You should be able to locate a voice in the soundstage with certain quality recordings but no guarantee voices are always mixed in so as to occur in the center.Your room may w... | |
| New vinyl's noisy little secret "Is it just impossible to make this old-generation type of vinyl currently?"You would think for the prices charged it would be possible.Then again, when records were plentiful 30-40 years ago, new records cost more or less what most CDs cost today... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Oh, and the prices for the upgraded classic OHM C2s and Hs appear to be only $100 more than those models sold for new back in the 70s. That would seem to indicate a good value. I preferred the OHMs over all other lines we carried back then includi... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Nice.I see they have a link to an ebay store there also with some refurbed box designs like Hs and C2s, which I would love to hear. I almost went down the refurbed H path before I tried the Walsh2 S3s. H's were my favorites back when I used to sel... | |
| Where to go from here You might just want to try something different sounding to synergize with your system before dropping big bucks on a player.If you have the money and want to, the best I've heard is the DCS Puccini.Or maybe try using a tube DAC with your Cambridge... | |
| Tower Speakers and Room Size I think monitors will do better with soundstage and imaging in a room that size and my preference would lean that way.I've heard the Synchrony Series floorstanders and liked them A LOT! They were hard to fault on a very good system driven by a Cam... |