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| American Casting Company-Rockport Lyra I guess I should have said "appears to me to be a serious advance...". I appreciate "elegant" engineering and find this construction method vastly more appealing than those of competing metal utilizing speaker designs,including the new B&W. I ... | |
| American Casting Company-Rockport Lyra Wow. Truly a design of genius. Serious art that is a seriousadvance over competing designs. It looks like the future for those that can afford it. | |
| Do you clean your records before play, after play, or once (and then never again)? I have used 'The Last Factory" record cleaning and treatment for products and have found they work as described. I wouldn't be without them. | |
| Materials to reduce sidewall flex & vibration ? But, panels 'inside' the enclosure change the internal volume-an area carefully calculated to work with the drivers used - to provide the right 'damping' for the drivers. This is why I am focused on the exterior. | |
| HD VINYL. New method for making vinyl records! This info came from Digital Music News. Sorry for delay Norbert,haven't gotten back to this thread til now. | |
| Power cord replacement suggestions I second those who say you must experiment; and williwonka has basically explained why. BTW there's nothing "fanatical" about better power cords-except the pursuit of ultimate quality by those attempting to provide the best, like MIT Cable for exa... | |
| Power cable recommendations under $1k MIT Oracle AC3. Look up MIT on this site. Joe Abrams of Equus Audio is an authorized dealerI've had excellent experience with. You 'must' call him to get the best price.He often has demo's and trade-ins well within your price range. | |
| Fiberglass/Carbon fiber to stiffen speaker sidewalls? Found talkcomposites.com . Very good. Cheers | |
| Fiberglass/Carbon fiber to stiffen speaker sidewalls? I'm moving this query to a site that deals with carbon fibre and fiberglass. | |
| Materials to reduce sidewall flex & vibration ? donjr, that's correct; and I would say at least 95% of cabinet sidewalls flex.I don't really know if it will improve sound any; but it's idea I want to investigate. | |
| Materials to reduce sidewall flex & vibration ? Thanks guys.Dentdog,Granite sounds ideal. For a business all I need is a warehouse and laser cutter for the granite; but, I'm retired so that won't work.bdp,hard floor tiles,perhaps black, are interesting.I mentioned fiberglass/carbon fiber as the... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters I'm not a 'hater' of any loudspeaker, how can one hate a speakeror speaker company? However, although I respect there may many quality components in their speaker (board stock x,s,z etc), their claims of near perfection,when they can't even get th... | |
| Materials to reduce sidewall flex & vibration ? Thanks bdp24; however, in this case I'm only interested withmaterial that can be bonded to the exterior of the speaker. I'm hoping some have experience in materials such as fiberglass and carbon fiberas well as with granite,etc. | |
| Who do you like for equipment mods? Jafant,nice to hear your words. Bill Thalmann of Music Technology(.com) is a exceptional professional in this industry.My experience with him was with the highest level equipment He is also one of the very few qualified/approved Apogee Ribbon Inst... | |
| Who do you like for equipment mods? I second Bill Thalmann at Music Technology most heartily. He did mods for me at reasonable cost. The work was immaculate and the sound very satisfying. Very professional gent. |