millercarbon
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| Recommendations for power amp placement/dampening scothurwitz- Hi jredI personally would not bother with the butcher block, when I tried it, it made things sound worse. They are also not cheap. If it were me, I would spend the money on one of the many isolation footers out there. Some of them ... | |
| ...do great speakers increase in value over time in the vintage market? Actually no, that has nothing to do with his question. The degree to which you have misconstrued it is however hilariously impressive. | |
| Help with turntable purchase Just looking at them I would go with the Rotel. The MMF is basically a piece of MDF with veneer and some holes drilled in it. Its belt drive which is fine but it has a built-in phono stage. So part of the budget went into a cheap phono stage card ... | |
| ...do great speakers increase in value over time in the vintage market? What color are these bad boys anyway? Mine were yellow with orange grills. They came in 4 or 5 colors. I was watching and got mine when they were marked way down. Plus mine were store demo. I said hey what about this nick on the grill? Bottom corn... | |
| ...do great speakers increase in value over time in the vintage market? We're talking Kenwood KA-something or other 60 watt integrated, Technics SL-1700 with Stanton 681EEE, lamp cord and patch cords. Nothing back then even had detachable power cords so you can imagine. I was however dedicated enough to tin the ends o... | |
| Flexible/Compliant Speaker Cables What I usehttps://www.parts-express.com/cat/hi-fi-speaker-wire/1617 | |
| New speakers for turntable ($500 range) I recommend The Complete Guide to High End Audio by Robert Harley. https://www.alibris.com/search/books/isbn/9780964084902utm_source=Google?utm_medium=affiliate&ut... | |
| Is Sub Gain Set&Forget Across Music Genres a Fallacy? You already have the answer. Take any two subs and move them to the third system creating a three sub system. When you see how much better that works and want to try and blame it on the room, or the system, or anything other than the fact its the ... | |
| ...do great speakers increase in value over time in the vintage market? Your "bandwidth" and ability to relay that pleasantly continues to awe me ( and I did correctly mean awe, not augh!...)Thanks for your blurb here...You're welcome.BTW: in another forum - if I remember correctly - you said you had these once upon a... | |
| Image depth What I’m getting from reading about recording techniques, is that godd recording techniques will fool the ear-brain location finding function to create an approximate aural image, but does not actually duplicate the exact sonic signature (amplitud... | |
| ...do great speakers increase in value over time in the vintage market? Matter of fact everything does this. Just try and find something from 1972, still around and in good condition, that’s not seizing for more now than then. General rule is 15 years of depreciation is followed by endless appreciation. Yes folks anot... | |
| LP - first needle drop or 2nd or 3rd?? Transferring LP to CD, worried about sound quality. Good one. | |
| How do you go about selling large speakers? CL. | |
| High Powered Holographic Amplifiers Right. And my whole system is on a 240V to 120V Audio Consulting step down transformer. Then the whole thing is conditioned with another 120V transformer inside my custom Tetrault/SR conditioner. The Active Shielding MPCs are on a third Audio Cons... | |
| LOTS - Loudspeaker Optimization Techniques for Soundstage Yes and if you look you will see my comment from 5 days ago saying this technique is solid. Its a whole lot of extra work, but maybe worth it for people new to this who might otherwise never realize just how far out the speakers need to be for exc... |