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| More power "better" Hi Steve, thanks for the detailed jnfo on the variac and other approaches to getting good stage tone. Eddie Van Halen has used the variac trick for years but i never thought of using it as you suggested to keep the voltage where it needs to be for... | |
| More power "better" This comment plays off of the comment from swd above.. Coming at this from a different perspective the outcome is the same. more is better I am a part time working musician as well as an audio enthusiast. For my stage rig i have a hand built 45 w ... | |
| Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Bela also did an album where he performed acoustic duets with a bunch of Jazz monsters including chick corea. I forget the name of the disk..most of the time I'm lucky to remember my own it seems. .i'll try to remember to look it up when i get hom... | |
| Opinions on Dunlavy Aletha Speaker Hi Garfish, I just moved into a house with your room. . I originally set the athenas up on the short wall in my new house since that's where the power was. Things sounded horrible relative to my old set up but most of that i think is due to no iso... | |
| Opinions on Dunlavy Aletha Speaker For best results follow dunlavy's directions and set them up on the long wall, close to the back wall , approx 10-12 ft between speakers and leave at least 3-4 ft between the speaker and the side wall. Ten feet to the listener. Putting them on the... | |
| Mcintosh Amps w/ B&W 801'S I listened to a pair of 801s through a Mac amp and pream ( i forget which amp bu t if memory serves me.. whcih if often dont..the amp had 4 6550s per side) and a meridian cd player. I found the sound to be pretty sterile and lifeless. Warmth was n... | |
| send the electrician !!! The coincident IC get recommended a lot, to the point where they seem to be at lease a must listen. Does anyone have a recommendation as to a dealer who lends them out for a trial. For that matter who is a good dealer for them period. Around my ar... | |
| Best Retailer Youve Done Business With? Audio-video logic in Des Moins Iowa. I went in and took a few minutes to tell them what i was looking for in a system. They listened attentively and within about 20 minutes had put togeather a system that was exactly where i wanted to be and then ... | |
| Anyone Know What VTL sounds like? The CJ gear is the most tubey of the three. I throught they were a bit too lush sounding. My favorite was the ARC VT100 MKII over the VTL but not by much and purchase price actually pushed me to the VTL (MB185 and 5.5).. Based on a fairly sistant ... | |
| INTERCONNECT-advice from knowers! I agree with Trelja and Carl that magazines are useful and i actually read a lot of the e-zine reviews. I also feel that guys like Carl present a lot of condensed information that i need to tap into while others like Ejlif have a similarity of sit... | |
| INTERCONNECT-advice from knowers! Thanks for the info carl. The piezo moniker was dumped on me in grad school (with no association to speakers at all for that matter) and just happened to fit here. and You're right, I don't spend a lot of time in the mags. I find that real world f... | |
| INTERCONNECT-advice from knowers! Hi Ejlif, I have a pair of Dunlavy athenas fed by VTL 185 monoblocks and 5.5 preamp with an ARC CD-2 and pro-siklway II. I feel exactly as you do pertaing the desire to keep the detail and soundstage but fill in the gaps with the HT cables. What s... | |
| Recommended BLUES recordings Misikdoc is right, most of the blues is vocal based unless it's blues based jazz. As far as blues being an aab vocal form i would say that it's better defined as some permutation of a I, IV, V chord progression based on a major scale and the doria... | |
| TUBE or SS? I originally auditioned a pair of Dunlavy Athenas with a ARC vt-100 tube amp. When i went back for a second listen the speakers were hooked to a Pass Labs aleph (i think it was a 2, about 60w) and something wasn't quite right. Re-attaching the dun... | |
| Audio Research a good match? I auditioned a pair of dunlavy athenas with the ARC VT100 MKII and a wadia 850 run direct into the amp. The room was well treated with about a dozen floor to ceiling asc traps. I never have heard anything so good before or since. Sound stage defin... |