richopp
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| Usless but interesting ....how many of you old timers started with original Large Advents? @strindl8 Good reminder. I sometimes mention "fair trade" in my posts here and I am not sure people understand that environment.Basically, they "shopped" your store, and any discount on a fair trade item immediately lost you their line, period.I ... | |
| Speaker recommendations 10 to 30k and no beryllium Your Bryston amps are pretty good; they may sound fine on Maggies.Cheers! | |
| Stereo Receivers from the past... A lot of guys brought back Sansui from Nam in the day. It was not bad...Nak's break; Marantz items were mostly pretty good. Pioneer, not so much. Tandberg made a decent one, as I remember.Cheers! | |
| LP made from a digital master recording... Remind all of the Lincoln Mayorga albums of the 1970's that were direct-to-disc. Evidently, Sheffield still does this. I suggest you buy some of their items and then discuss. As the recording engineer posted above (@solypsa), a lot depends upon ... | |
| Usless but interesting ....how many of you old timers started with original Large Advents? Everyone had them back in the day. We were into LOUD and they seldom broke, although a tweeter would go every now and then.Stacked pairs were the cat's meow. Interesting how today almost all high-end speakers are 6' tall. Wonder where they got ... | |
| A philosophical question. What is NEW today becomes OLD tomorrow.Give new things a chance...you might like something out there.Cheers! | |
| Speaker recommendations 10 to 30k and no beryllium Go to your dealer and get a pair of Maggies. Take them home and listen to them (your dealer will set them up for you.) If your gear is not top notch, you will probably not like what you hear on the Maggies. This is the sound of the GEAR, not the s... | |
| Guest suddenly takes it upon herself to move my speakers 1. Get some big Maggies and she will find it difficult to move them.2. Depends upon how cute she was, right? (YIKES, a non-woke, sexist comment. SO SORRY!)Cheers! | |
| Speakers Don’t Matter As Much As We Think They Do? Ya just gotta get some Maggies and go from there, as I always say...no listening fatigue as from electrostatics or boxes or (yikes!) horns, which belong on the top of poles at high school stadiums. (uh-oh--sorry to the Klipsch owners. I am sure y... | |
| Adjusting speaker positioning. What, if anything, to expect? @skyscraper Sorry to hear that you were not able to get into Maggies due to size. I completely understand as this occurred many times back in the day when I had my shop. We also made solid wood cabinets and furniture for housing equipment, and I... | |
| Adjusting speaker positioning. What, if anything, to expect? @skyscraper Well, man, sometimes the truth hurts, right?Being openly prejudiced is one of my many, many failings in life, but hey, you only go around once, right (as far as we know, anyway,,,) so you might as well have the best!Obviously this is a... | |
| Seriously considering tube preamp…opinions? No matter what you look at or try, you will look long and hard to beat an Audio Research tube preamp. They set the standard for the industry in the 1970's and while there are MANY other good ones out there, why mess around?Some models are "better... | |
| Adjusting speaker positioning. What, if anything, to expect? If you really wanna have fun. buy some actually accurate speakers from Magnepan that only reproduce what you send them and set those up in a given room.Cheers,Richard | |
| Is Magnepan is coming out with it's own amplifier @bdp24 Thanks so much for that information. I will look into it. EC-21's seem to be priced pretty high when they show up, which is not often. I wonder if all the buyers understand that they were made for the I-C speakers? I am sure they work O... | |
| Best songs to test speakers Oh, my, Ricki Lee Jones...thank you for reminding me! She is a great talent and her vinyl is excellent!Cheers! |