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| Vintage Advents too big for small room? Hmmm, something like the VonSchweikert VR-1 or the Green Mountain Audio Europa's might be interesting and would probably work well with a little tweaking. Then there are the Paradigm Studio 20s, which could be had for a little less money. But, I'd... | |
| Vintage Advents too big for small room? The Advents do have a fair amount of heft in the low bass. Your room will be less than ideal for ANY speaker with true low bass response. You get a double reinforcement at some low frequency point because the width and length of the room are the s... | |
| 2 way or 3 way Speaker? Then again, two-way speakers usually put the crossover in a sensitive part of the midrange, which is where the most audibly-damaging problems occur... Two-way versus Three-way doesn't give anyone enough information to make a quality judgement. The... | |
| How's this for a dose of reality??? Wait, I know, it was Robert Harley from: The Complete Guide to High-End Audio! Don't know the year, but I believe it was sometime A.D. | |
| How's this for a dose of reality??? Harry Pearson, TAS, circa 1969? -- Either he or Martin DeWulf of Bound for Sound perhaps a few years later...???On the other hand, maybe it was J. Gordon Holt of Stereophile in 1971, and that's my final guess! | |
| Manger Owners? I had a pair for a while. They were amazingly clear and fast sounding as I recall... But I also recall that they had a high frequency anomaly of some sort that prevented them from reproducing stringed instruments like the violin correctly. If not ... | |
| Genesis 350 vs. Carver AL-III It will be much better in the bass and highs, but as you know, the price difference is HUGE, so you're not really comparing apples to apples.You could also look into speakers from Newform Research and VMPS for home theater applications and probabl... | |
| can magnepan mg II a's have Replace the fuse anyway, even if it doesn't look blown. If you still have no tweeter cleaning the straps as Elizabeth suggested can't hurt, though beyond that you will have to open up the speaker, or send it back to Magnepan for refurbishing. Some... | |
| Looking for some sax sp music Branford Marsalis plays a great bass sax on the Columbia release Trio Jeepy. And it's a superb recording as well. It's been one of my favorites for years. | |
| Rick James - Rest In Peace Calloway, lighten up! Everyone's got a few little quirks and eccentricities. Hey, I'm sure his girlfriend could have left if she really wanted to; maybe she chose to hang around for the "perks" despite James's abuse. Unless you were there, you don... | |
| Infinity Renaissance 90 -VS- VMPS RM 30 OR RM 40. Lanny, the older Infinity speakers were quite good in their time. I have heard all the large Infinity systems at friends homes and am quite familiar with them. Of the ones I have heard, I would not rank the Renaissance models at the top of my list... | |
| Rick James - Rest In Peace Yeah, the news surprised me too. He was only 56; but it seems they were "high-mileage" years.I have said, jokingly, that my son Eric James was named after Rick James, but maybe I wasn't really joking. My son (fortunately) is nothing like James, bu... | |
| I need more cowbell.... Trying some different interconnects might prove an interesting and worthwhile experiment... | |
| Replacing tweeter in old Advent speaker? You shouldn't have to change the crossover as long as the efficiency of the new tweeter is the same as that of the old tweeter... If the efficiency differs, it will play either louder or softer than the original tweeter, thus affecting the overall... | |
| How Revealing Should a System Be? Nine out of Ten audiophiles agree that a system should be 100 percent revealing and 100 percent musical. Obviously this is impossible and the perception is that as the system becomes more revealing it also becomes less musical and vice-versa. So, ... |