richopp
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| Can speakers cause mental illness? Only if they are in BOXES.Cheers! | |
| For the Audiophile with a taste for good design(looks)....a question. Well, back in the day, Bang and Olufsen was the "design" audio company. Their stuff was middle-of-the-road in sound and it broke pretty much like the rest of the stuff in that sound range, but it was pretty. We made some oak stands for it that w... | |
| Are there speakers with cloth/soft enclosures instead of wood? Yes there are and they are the best, IE, the most accurate speakers made. Look up Magnepan and give your favorite model a tryout in your room.Cheers! | |
| Speaker upgrade Have your dealer deliver and set-up the latest Magnepan speakers in your room.Sit back and listen to the MUSIC instead of the system.Cheers! | |
| Openning a hi fi shop Been there, done that.First, you need $250,000 (MINIMUM!!!) in cash or credit plus another $50,000 CASH in first-year running costs (advertising, online presence, etc.).Get that, and then start planning WHERE you will go. High-end audio does not ... | |
| Does Power Cord Require Burn-In To Sound Good? Sure it does. Send me $1000.00 and I will explain it to you.Cheers! | |
| How I'd spend money given no limits Having spent a large portion of my life amongst such people, I promise you the only thing they have you do not is more choices.With that comes huge input from people asking for funds continually for as many "worthy" causes as you can name.Finally,... | |
| Any US manufacturer of a 845 SET amplifier From the reviews I read, it sounds almost as good as an Audio Research 6550 amp. They are made in the USA I think...Cheers! | |
| Speaker design, KenjiT and others. WOW! Lotta mind-altering substances being consumed by people here!Fun reading...keep ingesting and posting.Cheers! | |
| What speaker – under $10k – has the best timbre and tonal qualities? Anything in that price range from Magnepan will be better than anything else you find, but listen IN YOUR ROOM to whatever you pick before you buy.Cheers! | |
| My Mark Levinson preamp dying - looking for new preamp, sound as good, wont break bank Hard to answer. ML stuff (from the old days) was terrible. If yours "sounded" good to you, I would check out other pre-amps that have no "sound" and see what you have been missing.If ML has improved its products (the parts were always good, the ... | |
| The Great Cartridge Shootout Supex used to have a wood body. I don't recall any real issues, and everyone LOVED that cartridge back in the day.Interesting...Cheers! | |
| What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system? Duane and Dickey swapping solos on "Stormy Monday" on Live at Fillmore East.Never heard two live back-to-back solos that were so amazing. Those guys could sure play like they were inspired by something other-worldly. Then again, most all music i... | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? @chakster WOW! Those are sure different from the original ones that were self-contained and silver with lots of speed dots on the platter for making sure the speed was set correctly.I imagine they cost a bit, as well. I love vinyl, but still us... | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? Back in the '70's when a lot of this started, we had a lot of different TTs in my shop. Garrard was a joke back then--plastic and sold for about $40.00, I think. Thorns' tables were hard to get for a while. I think they were a couple hundred bu... |