richopp
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| What process do you use to purchase cables? I usually measure the distance between the components I am hooking together and add a foot or so as I do not have a cabinet where I can take off the back to run the wires. (We made these when I had my shop--made changing components easy!) I need ... | |
| Critical listening and altered states When cannabis, which has been a medicine ever since it has been on the planet, is finally "discovered" to be beneficial in may ways, as well as psychoactive components in mushrooms and other "plants" on the planet, I suppose all the drunks among t... | |
| Townshend Springs under Speakers I don't really have an issue with all this fussing with boxes, but wouldn't it be better to just get a pair of Magneplaners and skip all that?You get another set of issues...90% room placement...the rest is your hardware.Boxes distort. All this "... | |
| Bad recordings and high end audio Congrats on buying the best speakers on the market.Make sure your hardware is up to the challenge, make sure your room is set up properly, and then sit back and enjoy the music!Cheers! | |
| Speakers for triode tube amps @larryi2 In the day, Magnepans were marketed with either a D-76 or D-76A when it came out, or bi-amped with D-51's and D-76 amps. Yes, the more power the better with Maggies. I realize there are many lower-power tube amps and no, Maggies do NOT... | |
| Point to Point vs Circuit Board Well, for what it is worth, I built both a Dynaco tube amp (Stereo 70 as I remember) and a Hafler 500 at my desk in my shop in the 1970's.I followed the directions and soldered a ton of wires in both kits. Of course, the Hafler had several printe... | |
| Speakers for triode tube amps Jim WIney and Bill Johnson solved this in the 1970's.Audio Research and Magnepan marketed and sold their products in tandem. They are more accurate than any other combo.There's the answer for you--no big mystery here.Cheers! | |
| What speaker do you passionately want to demo? Nothing in a box, that's for sure.Probably the newest Maggies...but I already know they are better than anything else out there, so it would be fun listening to their newest ideas.Cheers! | |
| Bass sensation like a loud car system in home? Very large woofers and lots of power.I suggest a pair or 24" Hartley woofers in custom cabs that can be many shapes. Hartley can help you with this.https://www.hartleyloudspeakers.com/new_page_2.htmWe built some cabs for these back in the day for ... | |
| So damn hard deciding which tube preamp to buy! The "BEST" pre-amp is the one that sounds the best TO YOU in your system IN YOUR ROOM, period.If you have a good dealer, he or she will loan you as many as you like until you make a decision.Personally, it is my belief that the company most praise... | |
| THE IRS HAS TAKEN MY TRANSACTIONS VIA PAYPAL AND IDENTIFIED THEM AS TAXABLE INCOME Could the IRS be broke because some people bought lobbyists to write laws that were passed by legislators they also bought to exempt them from paying taxes? Possibly these people were billionaires, but of course that is not true.ALL billionaires ... | |
| AUDIO RESEARCH VS VTL ARC | |
| What’s up with Magnepan service? I went to Home Depot to buy a ladder. They told me they would have a ladder for me in MAYBE a month or so.A LADDER! From a HOME IMPROVEMENT store.Clearly Covid has caused some issues, but I suppose there is no reason to think anyone should be inc... | |
| When someone listens to your system for the first time. Love to play my Maggies for those who have never heard them.Love to watch their eyes--kind of reminds me of my early days teaching school when a student finally connects with the information.Great feeling in both situations!Cheers! | |
| Magnepan, Best midrange? Uh, I don’t know how many posts I have, but I believe I explain that Magnepan is the holy grail of speakers in pretty much every one of them.I figured this out in the early 1970’s in my shop, and while there certainly have been great improvements ... |