paulwp
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| Stereophile's refusal to review more low There are big companies with large advertising budgets and inexpensive products. You see their products reviewed all the time. It's mid-range (in price) products made by small companies with no advertising budget that aren't reviewed. No criticism... | |
| Lead shots for speaker stand. As long as we're talking alternatives, and assuming you're looking to damp the ringing of metal stands and are not necessarily interested in making the stands heavier, try kitty litter. Real cheap experiment. Go to your local supermarket and pay $... | |
| Right channel distortion Could be the tubes. Turn the preamp completely off and switch the tubes from one channel to the other. If the noise moves to the other channel, then its likely the tubes.Could be your cables. Try taking the interconnects off and putting them back ... | |
| Speakers to hang on to for LIFE I bought my first pair of Harbeth P3 mini-monitors in 1994, sold them in 1998 and bought a pair of Harbeth HL Compact 7s, which I promise you I will never sell. Lots of reviews available so I won't bore you. To me they are completely characterless... | |
| Kudos to several dealers Interesting thread. I'll add a few.Alan Shaw, md of Harbeth Audio (I think that's their name now).Alastair Gardner, proprietor of Signals in England. Alastair sells Harbeth loudspeakers over the web and a lot of other stuff and gives great advice ... | |
| Which Rack Is Better? For a turntable or cdp, I think the ideal stand is a 1000 pound concrete post sunk into the ground. When you try to place either on a suspended floor, I dont know what's the right thing to do. I think as heavy and massive as possible to try to kee... | |
| Who R U? Colm, my boys will be 13 and 11 in the next 2 months. Too young for your girls. Hate the Beatles? Really? I never listen to them, always liked the Stones, but I have to acknowledge their talent. Like Spyboy and Western Wall? | |
| Which Rack Is Better? Dan. What kind of floor will be under the rack? I'm really happy with my little Synergy rack on carpet over a slab. In my main system on a carpeted but suspended floor, I have a bigger and more massive Target rack that seems to be fine.You might j... | |
| Best CD of Diana Krall?? Dekay, I disagree. Her mouth only sounds about 1 ft in diameter. Her head is 4 ft high. Its the opposite of a lot of pop cds where the vocalist appears to be about 3 ft tall. Ms. Krall sounds like a giant. (And I keep picturing a giant sitting on ... | |
| Which Rack Is Better? Dan, if you could be convinced the Salamander Synergy is not a sonic compromise? I had a devil of a time with my second system, sybillance, brightness, smear. When my Salamander Synergy stand finally arrived, all the problems disappeared. I had al... | |
| Best CD of Diana Krall?? This is funny. I took "When I Look . . " back to the store thinking there was something wrong with the copy I first got since it had been so highly recommended. The second copy was just like the first and just as you guys describe. Too closely mik... | |
| Your thoughts on speaker stands David, a "lossy" design is thin-walled, designed to resonate at an unobjectionable (usually higher) frequency, rather than a thick and rigid cabinet which will resonate no matter what you do, sometimes at an unintended and objectionable frequency.... | |
| 1955-2001 Favorite Top Ten Rock Groups Los Lobos, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Beatles, Stones, Doors, Mother Earth, Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Allman Bros., the Who, Cream | |
| Your thoughts on speaker stands The most important attribute of a stand is its height. Most of the time, but not always, you need to get the tweeter to ear level. I still have an email I received from the designer of some very good speakers who told me the only function of a sta... | |
| All Value System Under 5K Most obviously American of anyone on Audiogon. |