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| Bookshelf Speaker For Outdoors I would not use indoor speakers outdoors like that. The best, but not the cheapest wall-mount outdoor speakers I have ever used were the NEAR LB8’s and LB6’s. Just increase your budget and check them out. Another option are the landscape and ... | |
| This 60 Hz hum is driving me crazy Another grounding issue I had was from the cable TV box. There was a splitter on the outside of the house, which needs to be grounded and it was, to the steel conduit/ main breaker panel just above it. But, that grounding clamp and steel pipe had ... | |
| McIntosh -- good for show, not for sound, says dealer Well, I guess I'm not an "real audiophile," because of some random doorknobs opinion on Youtube. 😀 | |
| This 60 Hz hum is driving me crazy I had a hum years ago that I couldn't get rid of, until I removed the outlet from the wall. It turned out that the ground wire, which is bare, was just barley touching the hot lead screw terminal in the box. I just rearranged the Romex in the bo... | |
| Looking for small active STEREO speakers I can throw in a carry on bag and travel with I always thought those B&W MM-1 speakers were nice. | |
| Best Bang for the Buck Upgrade I'd look at a pair of nice subwoofers and some basic room treatments, if you don't have any, yet. | |
| Would appreciate a group consensus on Agon purchased amps This is not a big deal. Just buy some basic power cords as suggested and move on with your life. Geez. | |
| Svs, Rel, or ?. A second suggestion for the KEF KC62, as well. | |
| What do you guys think of adding a subwoofer to this system? The most important part of extracting great performance with subwoofer(s) has been touched on by a couple of others. It is not only proper integration with your main speakers, but more importantly, with your room. Getting bass "right" can be chall... | |
| component grounding More than likely, the addition of the grounding conductor was due to someone getting electrocuted or injured by an appliance in another industry, such as a clothes dryer, stove, etc. Since the gear in our hobby is considered "appliances", it woul... | |
| inexpensive phono pre amp I had the Parasound for several months before I upgraded my integrated amp. It did nothing wrong and it seems like a fantastic value. | |
| Triangle Competitors? For American made, there are quite a few offerings that might fit what you're looking for: Magnepan, Spatial Audio, Induction Dynamics, Vandersteen, McIntosh (?), Magico, Klipsch Heritage and JBL have been mentioned, already. | |
| Cost-effective integrated For new, the Parasound NewClassic 200 is pretty nice and ticks most boxes that anyone could have. For used, there's a Classe CAP-101 here on Agon for sale. Those are pretty nice, as well, with minimal features. NAD and Cambridge Audio also have... | |
| Best amp for Sonus Faber Cremona When I was at Sumiko in 2008-ish for a class, they used Pass Labs for amplification on all the big speakers, like their Strads, Elipsa's and the like. | |
| Speaker shootout question -- do you position the same or differently, depending? Generally, the room will dictate where the speakers will be placed within the room, to deal with peaks, nulls, modes, etc. Once they're in those positions, then speaker toe and rake angles can be experimented with to dial in each given speaker pa... |