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| Scoring on Used Thiels here beetlemania,Nice post!I can tell you that if you were listening to the 3.7s you wouldn't have any reservations about the soundstaging, depth. The 2.7s I have do fore-shorten depth a bit, but the 3.7s sound just spreads massively, seems to go on f... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! Ugh, another bump in the road:When I swapped the position of the additional MDF boards to above the Townsend springs (and under the butcher block base) I forgot that this means the entire weight of the turntable and wood base is now sitting only o... | |
| Thiel Owners @tomthiel,Whatever happened to the MCS1.2 center channel announced in 2012?https://www.soundandvision.com/content/long-awaited-thiel-centerThat got a lot of Thiel owners very excited, but of course it never came out to market. What exactly happ... | |
| Thiel Owners What a happy article that was!So much of what made Thiel great came from the character of people running that company, and the tradition is being carried on by Rob. | |
| Racks made of wood @kennythekey I’ve come to similar conclusions about the efficacy of springs for isolation.As I’ve detailed in my thread about re-vamping my Lovan rack to accommodate my new high mass turntable, I’ve tried a great many types of isolation materials ... | |
| Looking for vintage Quad ESL's - or my wife thinks a "shrink" becase she says I'm crazy! peter_s,I used to hear stacked quads (with an additional super tweeter as I remember...maybe it was a ribbon) at a local tube amp designer's place, back in the late 90's. It was always an impressive experience and such a wall of sound! | |
| Looking for vintage Quad ESL's - or my wife thinks a "shrink" becase she says I'm crazy! In the end, I think Quad’s Peter Walker himself said it best when asked if he felt satisfied with his product, "Oh no, we think our loudspeaker very poor, but we think that the others are even poorer!"Finally!You just helped me solve a brain-worm ... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! bdp24,Tell me about it!It's ironic you mention room acoustics: One reason this has all taken me so long is that I'm juggling two newbie moments: setting up a new expensive turntable AND attempting for the first time to integrate two new subwoofer... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! When we hooked everything up we only got one channel playing!Panic!Cable-swapping time.Thank goodness I had my experienced turntable buddy there because he ended up checking the wires of the RCAs coming from the Transrotor and, sure enough, one of... | |
| Help! Tweaking My Lovan Rack for new Big A**ed Transrotor Turntable! Another entry into the thread that is no longer being read :-)I received my JE Audio Phono Stage and finally...FINALLY...set up my Transrotor turntable! But before I get to that, here are the final details of how I re-jigged my meagre Lovan classi... | |
| My wife is at it again......... grannyring,That's YOUR wife? Cool. It wasn't long ago I stumbled on to that blog and had a great time reading. Good to know more posts are coming. | |
| Initial Thoughts on Harbeth Super HL5 Plus Wonderful speakers! I had them for a while. A new store opened up nearby my selling Harbeth and when I go in I find myself being "seduced" by the sound all over again.Some ELP on vinyl played through Harbeth Monitor 30's was glorious. | |
| Harbeth comparison? As a tubehead in terms of amplification preferences, I find that Harbeths are one of the very few speakers that can draw me in and keep me seated to listen, without tube amps. They are naturally organic sounding. | |
| Looking for vintage Quad ESL's - or my wife thinks a "shrink" becase she says I'm crazy! One of the most impressive speaker sets ups I’ve owned were the Quad ESL63s with Gradient subwoofers, which were dipole pattern subs made by Gradient specifically for the 63s. Visually, the mated seamlessly. Sonically, they were the only mating of... | |
| What’s in your system today that you also had 10 years ago? Conrad Johnson Premier 12 tube monoblock amps, 140W/side.I've had them since the late 90's (as I remember).Possibly my best purchase. I love tubes, but needed some that would drive a large variety of speakers (as I switch speakers pretty often). ... |