roxy54

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The best speaker you ever heard?
Squarewavespeakers,Do you produce speakers of your own design for sale commercially? 
1970's receivers and integrated amps...
I keep a vintage Marantz 2239 (I think) for occasional use if something in the system goes down. The sound is sweet and smaooth, but the downsides are muted dynamics, and a somewhat homogenized sound. I loved it when it was my first reciever (2225... 
Where does your user name come from?
Mine is from my favorite band (Roxy Music) and the year that I was born. 
Component racks
11flat6,I can only compare the Adona rack I own to the other rack that I used for many years which was a 4 shelf welded square tubular rack by Target with MDF shelves. That was a sonic improvement over my makeshift former rack, and the Adona is mu... 
Review: Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD Player
Mohit25,I just saw your response to my post. I was not attempting to make a snide remark at all, I was serious. As a member of this forum, you can't seriously believe that you could get a worthwhile modification for around $100.00. You can, howeve... 
Component racks
I like the Adona racks. They look good, sound good, and many have shelves that are infinitely adjustable 
Review: Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD Player
These days, for a hundred bucks you might get some good used footers if your lucky. Other than that, maybe a second job. 
Ayon Triton the best tubes amp in the market?
Silly question. 
Audioquest colorado sound to bright
The Cardas cables cetainly wouldn't be considered bright. 
Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil
I owned a pair of Spendor 9/1 speakers which cost around 6 grand in the early 90's. When I decided to upgrade the crossovers myself, I found that they were full of cheap Bennics also. I put in a bunch of Mundorf and Sonicaps and new wiring and the... 
Anyone try stuffing their ports?
I have always been suspicious of port stuffing as a technically valid solution. If a speaker was designed to operate with a port, how can it be correct to plug the port, thereby making it a virtually sealed box? 
Speakers that excel at depth/layering/space
Small ProAc speakers in the Response series, and the tablettes. Set up and synergy must be right, but they can certainly do it 
El cheapo sleeper amps....
Rrog,How did Sony make Marantz popular? 
Reimyo DAP777 or Dodson 218 ?
I owned the Reimyo DAC, and it was not as good as my Audio Note Dac 1x in the areas of timbre and dynamics. I didnt't notice any real difference in "PRAT". For the price, I think it is very overrated. 
Speaker cabinets: How important is inert
Well designed cabinets are certainly a major factor in a speaker's overall performance, but a very "dead" cabinet is not the only effective means of producing a good speaker. Two examples of the alternate route would be the Harbeth speakers and Au...