oldhvymec

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Altec Lansing Stonehenge 604-8G  
Sound coming from JL Audio F 113
Checking your connection is always a good idea. Unplug a plug back in a couple of times. Same with the PC. Make sure everything is plugged in, all the way. Cost nothing to check.. Regards  
HOW CRITICAL ARE JUMPER CABLES
Nordost Oden gold jumpers at 49K a set <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>... 
Room Treaments - Where To Begin...
That is a serious book. Good Lord. 10 pages of table of content. My hole booklet about acoustics was 10 pages long, WITH a table of content and one "this page is intended to be blank". That guy had something to say.. :-) Regards  
What do audiophiles do in their cars?
A lot of people are living in. their cars, Way to many people. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Never in my w... 
Does Anyone Know What is Up with High Fidelity Cables?
So I suppose the chauffeur and Rolls are out? Crap.. Maybe Oprah will come through.. :-)  Walk share, everybody walks a mile and ride 59 how's that? OR maybe the other way around for the plump dumplins'. They can walk the 59 and ride the 1.. Besid... 
Does Anyone Know What is Up with High Fidelity Cables?
Another thread devolves to politics and evo issues. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>&g... 
If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically...
I use a couple to. I also degaussing my ES Sonys. Anything with a physical hard drive you have to be careful, you'll wipe the drive.. If you open up almost anything that has spinning or moving parts with unlike metals, some become magnetized. Ther... 
HELP - Subwoofer placement
OP the Arrays or swarms can use cabinets as small as .75cf. 4 small front firing or even ported cabinets will amaze you. BTW you can hide a .75-1.0cf box pretty easy. They are small and very effective. James Romeyn was hooked up with VMPS for ove... 
HELP - Subwoofer placement
One sub. Set on it or put it right behind your sitting chair. That is what you're looking for. You want to feel it through your bottom. You picked the right type of sub.. Now add about 100lb on top of each sub or like I said, set on it.. It will r... 
Not manufactured any more.
I’ve heard them with Pass equipment. I kept staring at them. I expected Dr. Who to pop up.. They sure disappeared in a room. Jean-Luc Ponty was on the menu. I remember that I brought it.. The guy had isobaric subs made from 1" thick clear plastic.... 
Mcintosh amplifiers and preamps
25 years ago I paid 270.00 for this MX110z. I took it out of storage last year. I had never used it. I brought it up on a Variac over a 3 day period, cleaned the tube pins and cleaned the pin sockets. It sounded good. Within 2 days it sounded gr... 
Does Anyone Know What is Up with High Fidelity Cables?
Good they only had 10 years to fix the piles of CRAP. The tractors should be melted to the ground and the ding bats that thinks tractors bellowing smoke is just fine, we'll pump that in YOUR house. Here I'm on O2 because of the crap I was MADE to ... 
Biamp question
I'd be careful with and active crossover that doesn't fail safe. A Behringer DCX2496 will fail to work but not send the wrong signal to the wrong place. I only use an active XO in my Bass management system. I find there is a lot better protection ... 
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I new a guy named Mugs he had a pair of these. They sounded better than the QLS1. Theses were powered by infinity amps and used an Infinity preamp too. No Idea who actually made them.. They were in one of the first large treated rooms, I had eve...