orpheus10
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| Opinions please on a starter audiophile system? If you start with speakers, you are adding a huge unknown quantity at great expense. When you add new unknown electronics, you have absolutely no idea which component is contributing what, to your overall sound.His present speakers are a very well... | |
| Opinions please on a starter audiophile system? The sound of the system ends with the speakers, it does not begin with the speakers. If anyone is going to start new they should begin at the beginning of the audio chain. Dealers will allow you to audition electronics in your home before you buy.... | |
| Opinions please on a starter audiophile system? The sound of the speakers change every time you change electronics. Those Polks will sound fine with some good electronics. Most dealers will allow you to audition electronics. He can see for himself. | |
| Opinions please on a starter audiophile system? Loudspeakers are the last thing you should buy. They are too arbitrary. I like this speaker someone else likes that one. They are also musical dependent; those Polks will do fine for now. | |
| Toddler-Friendly Budget Speakers? There is a thread that asks the question, "Does Polk make the best sounding cheap speakers"? Many seemed to concur. I think so. You might check the model numbers they recommended. | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-14 background noise My mistake on the PV-14; I was thinking about the PV-12. | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-14 background noise Have you replaced the electrolytic capacitors. That is the first thing I do after buying older equipment. | |
| The Sound or Music I just remembered something; when I was a teenager , in the back seat with a cute girl; the music coming from a "jive time" car radio sounded sooooo good. | |
| Reel to Reel decks Mikelavigne, "Wider bandwidth, greater dynamic range, and correspondingly lower noise level" than 4 track. If we assume that high quality 4 track sounds as good as the source, if 2 track sounds better than 4 track; it has to sound better than the ... | |
| Reel to Reel decks Mikelavigne, can you discribe the audible difference between 2 track and 4 track playback? | |
| Reel to Reel decks Mikelavigne, is your technics 2 track or 4 track. Which ones are direct drive? | |
| Reel to Reel decks Mikelavigne, how many reel to reel tape decks do you have at present? | |
| Reel to Reel decks T_bone, I decided to explain my statement "The playback is better than the source"Most decks record "forward" and "reverse", they do this by utilizing 4 tracks on the 1/4 tape. A 2 track uses the entire width of the tape in one forward sweep. The ... | |
| Reel to Reel decks Handyman, where are you? If you are going to buy pre recorded tapes, they are very expensive, and blank tape is not cheap. Are you still interested in a reel to reel? | |
| Reel to Reel decks T_bone, I have never read more "gobbledegook" in my life. You should have been a lawyer. I believe you wrote my last divorce papers. |