raquel
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| What is under $5k speaker with best bass slam? I owned Mahlers for six years, have owned other large speakers and have heard a lot of large speakers - "slam" is the Mahler's forte. In each speaker, you have two 10" woofers, two ports, and two 7" mid/bass drivers. The 7" mid/bass drivers are th... | |
| Anthem, Rotel or Bryston ??? I would just look for a used Bryston 4B-ST on Audiogon. Being very well built, it likely won't break and will sound as good if not better than a new Bryston SST amp. The Rotel and Anthem products are both quite respectable at their price points, b... | |
| What is under $5k speaker with best bass slam? If your question also assumes used speakers, the Vienna Acoustic Mahlers, which can be found for as little as $4k/pair used. | |
| Which "Kind of Blue". I'm so confused The sessions were recorded at the wrong speed (too fast) and the problem was not identified and corrected until they found the safety copy of the master tape in the 1990's. The 1997 Columbia reissue features the corrected speed, as do the other re... | |
| Amp suggestions for Revel Salons? If you don't have bi-wire speaker cables, attach the cables to the mids/highs posts, with the jumpers running to the woofer posts. The supplied plate-style jumpers are crap -- if you don't have real jumpers, an okay temporary solution is heavy-gau... | |
| Tube amps vs solid state for large speakers With due respect to many of the contributors to this thread, a lot of the information here reflects a misunderstanding of tube amps and what is important in a tube amp.The ability of a tube amp to properly drive speakers is not so much determined ... | |
| Former Revel Salon Owners: What Did You Switch To? I sold my Salons when I moved back to the U.S. from Brazil in 2005, mostly because I did not want the hassle and expense of schlepping them back. I had Vienna Acoustic Mahlers here in the States, which I stuck with. The Mahlers were half the price... | |
| Amp suggestions for Revel Salons? I want to jump in again for a moment. With all due respect to Dcstep, you absolutely do not want to run Salons with an ICe powered amp like the Rowland 501's or any other digital / Class D amp. The midrange and tweeters in the Salons are highly tr... | |
| Amp suggestions for Revel Salons? Kimber 3033 is not horrifically expensive (8 ft. runs used for $700-$800, and new is +/- $1,500). Kimber Bi-Focal is also good and costs a bit less (but spend a few more bucks and get 3033). Like any very high-performance speaker, you need to be c... | |
| Amp suggestions for Revel Salons? The Model 6's sound better with the batteries. Without going into great detail about why, they output fewer watts with the batteries, but will drive a speaker to louder levels cleanly with the batteries because A/C line noise becomes audible as th... | |
| Amp suggestions for Revel Salons? I owned Salons for three years, and a close friend of mine owned his for four.The most important thing to bear in mind with the Salons is that they are a very high-end speaker -- just because they can now be had used for $8,000 or less does not ch... | |
| Shootout: AMR CD-77 vs. AR CD7 vs. Wadia 581se Not to pile on, but I would never evaluate any gear through equipment, like those big ARC amps, that uses a lot of negative feedback -- your description of what was wrong with the sound of the ARC CD player ("While the mid-range was strong, the ov... | |
| Rowland Model 6 monoblocks - my thoughts Sand man:Woh woh ... time out. Why would you turn off your other sources? Your Electrocompaniet CD player could take anywhere from a day (some tubed DAC's) to a week (Naim) for the unit to stabilize after power up. Your c-j will sound much better ... | |
| Rowland Model 6 monoblocks - my thoughts When plugged into the wall, the input circuitry of the Model 2/6/8/9 amps remains powered up, but you have to engage the button on the front of the faceplate so it glows pale orange for voltage to reach the caps and the output transistors. The Mod... | |
| Rowland Model 6 monoblocks - my thoughts SirSpeedy:Does turning equipment on and off damage it? Over time, yes, some equipment more than others depending upon how hot equipment gets, as the hotter a piece gets when powered up, the more expansion and contraction occurs when it is turned o... |