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| shipping speakers I ran into a real quandry when I tried to sell my Alon Circe's. They were too big for Fedex and for UPS and the only other shipper in the area, BAX, required that they be shipped from a business. Since I work part time as a host for an NPR radio s... | |
| REL Stadium 3 vs. 2 Amplifier wattage is not exponential. Loudness is a logarithmic function of power. So a 200 watt amp will be able to play about 10 Log (2) = 3 dB louder than a 100 watt amp. An increase of 6 dB would sound twice as loud.Randy | |
| Bill Evans The Village Vanguard Sessions As a jazz lover for 20 odd years, I long ago purchased the original double LP's of these sessions, then the Complete Bill Evans on Riverside, then the XRCD and, I believe, the SACD of Waltz for Debby. I think I also have a couple of these on 45 rp... | |
| kharma 3.2 & sub... I have only heard the 3.2's once at a dealer in San Diego, but I was predisposed to like them after all the positive press. They fit my bill exactly: great on acoustic music, beautiful timbre, wonderful soundstage. When I finally got to hear them,... | |
| MAPLESHADE RECORDINGS Try Ran Blake and Clifford Jordan, Masters from Different Worlds. Great music and the sonics are spectacular. It is one of my demo discs that I use to try out new equipment. I agree that Live at Ethels is also wonderful, with that great jazz club ... | |
| CAN I RUN 50HZ AMP ON 60HZ? I once brought over my Harmon-Kardon equipment from the US (60 Hz) to Finland (50 Hz) and had no problems once I used a step down transformer. The difference between the frequencies is most important for equipment with synchronous motors, such as ... | |
| Helikon Mono - what settings are you using? Same loading (and almost the same VTA) as for my Ruby Benz (1 k ohm). Tracking force at 1.78 (plus or minus 0.02) gm. Never worried too much about the damping fluid in my Graham 1.5T (silly me)!Randy | |
| B&W N800 vs Piega C10 Limited Hi MFS, I believe you when you say how much better the B&W's are than the Piega's. I have never heard either speaker. All I am saying is that it may take even more skill and effort (or at least as much) to build a good speaker enclosure that i... | |
| B&W N800 vs Piega C10 Limited It's silly to think that weight makes a speaker better. There are two ways to create a speaker cabinet: high mass and low rigidity or low mass and high rigidity. In the first case, the resonance of the cabinet is below the threshold of hearing, in... | |
| Helikon LOADING I use 1k for both my Benz Ruby and my Helikon mono. Seems to work for both. I recall a review in Positive Feedback that also used 1k for the Helikon.Randy | |
| Tis a sad, sad day... I have owned a pair of Alon Circe's for about 4 years now so I know where you are coming from. The Alon's are very underrated. I have been looking at possible replacements for a year now and nothing I have heard for under 25k has been a clear impr... | |
| Conrad Johnson Loudspeakers-Synthesis. Not interested in selling the LM200's. They sound pretty good in front of our television. My wife wouldn't like my turning the tv room into another listening room (not that I would want to either) and the LM200's give us good sound without being t... | |
| Best Jazz Albums Try the link http://www.allmusic.com/. You might want to check out Scott Yanow's books on Swing and Bebop. He is selective in what albums he recommneds and rates each on a 1 to 9 scale. Yanow is one of the main reviewers in the All Music Guide. I ... | |
| Conrad Johnson Loudspeakers-Synthesis. Got a pair of LM200's still on duty in our TV room. Very nice speakers, if not the last word in anything in particular.Randy | |
| Stillpoint ERS Paper Question Got some small squares on top of my external crossovers, and some slightly larger squares on top of my BPT line conditioner. Definitely don't want too much of this stuff as it does tamper down all of the music: loss of highs means that you're usin... |