prndlus
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| Speaker that are 'KEEPERS" for the long haul!!! I’ve had at least one pair of Ohm Walsh since ~ 1981. - mapman Quality drivers stand the test of time. Have had a pair of Ohm Walsh 4’s for a year now - am the second owner - wonderful speakers. And a pair of Infinity Kappa 6 are my number one ... | |
| "Can You Lift Yours?" elliottbnewcombjr, thank you for the Stewart Hegeman link. I’ve always wanted to hear his bass cabinet solution or the Shahinian-licensed version. I picked up a speaker the wrong way, felt a jolt of electricity in my back, involuntarily screamed... | |
| The Snob Appeal Premium The industry is exploiting the audio truth that ’you get what you pay for’ and delivering to the misguided expectations of deep-pocketed buyers who equate the highest prices with ‘better’ and ‘best’. The owner of a hifi shop described how he woul... | |
| Happen to you? Gear chasing because the fundamentals were wrong. I bought an amp because I had read many times that it was a “musical’ amp, and other nice talk. It was junk, a 3 out of 10; I still have it and would be embarrassed to sell it and inflict it on someone else. The mistake was that I had not been c... | |
| Aidiogon is Da Bomb! Welcome kota1. zlone: "nattering nabobs of negativism", LOL! | |
| Buying Used Equipment on the Internet Most of my equipment was purchased used. Research: read, read, and read, then read more; knowledge is power. Create a list of what you are looking for, and begin to peruse the market with the objective of learning the nature of the market itself... | |
| Best Receiver? The last I read at The Tuner Information Website, Accuphase T-1000 - Kenwood L-02T - Sansui TU-X1, are the tops. Big money though, and I’ve never seen a North American version of the Accuphase. I started with a Rotel RT-2100: hard to find, but s... | |
| Can a system sound too Holographic? I once heard a pair of Fried Model H - two satellites and an enormous stereo subwoofer, a rectangular box containing two 18 foot (I think) channels ported out the right and the left. (As much as I love my REL subs, I suspect a Hegeman type subwoo... | |
| Swiss Digital Fuse Box - "What headroom sounds like" Thank you, Gladmo for bringing this to our attention. And for cluing me in to a 'weak link' aspect I had not encountered yet, fuses. The Swiss Digital Fuse Box is now on my list - for components. I wonder what people recommend for speaker fuses... | |
| A rare opportunity (or at least I think it's rare) Since I do not have audiophile friends coming by to hear my system, it becomes a bit too conceptual as time goes by, all alone, gathering information, making choices, evaluating… I’ve doubted my choices and questioned what I’m hearing, and said t... | |
| Listening to music with loud feedback as a tinnitus sufferer “A constant sine wave inside my skull.” Yup. That’s how I experience it. “I try to bear the aches and pains with good grace.” Same here, jirkal. It’s a cruel affliction. Doubly cruel to audiophiles something like poor Beethoven going deaf. T... | |
| Your experience of moving to two subs The argument that convinced me to go with two subwoofers says: The bass wave is extremely long at the low end of the sub’s output, and the listener cannot tell where it originates. The sub’s output higher up the spectrum enters the zone where th... | |
| Audio Research equipment for sale. I have a list of equipment I aspire to. On it I added an Audio Research piece owned by Arnold Nudell. I took note of it; after all, it was chosen by the man himself for his personal system. A few years later I watched a video: Arnold Nudell was... | |
| The best speaker cables you’ve had I read that Magnepans love power and got the idea that ‘bigger might be better’, so I got 8AWG cables, 10ft each, as an experiment. They’re 100% OCC copper with a 400-something strands with a micro-coating of silver. I had already been using 10 ... | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? I’ve read of two examples from completely separate sources that were so similar they must be indicative. A speaker manufacturer and an amplifier manufacturer both told virtually an identical story: ‘The ‘bean counters’ looked over the business a... |