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| Audiophile LP's Last year I happened across a 1958 recording titled:"The Arrival of Victor Feldman"Feldman plays vibes and piano and is accompanied by the legendary Scott LaFaro on bass and Stan Levy on drums. It’s an extraordinary recording and worth looking for... | |
| Is Velodyne gone? I interviewed at Velodyne last fall for the Linux systems admin position they had at their LIDAR research facility. I'm still kicking myself for turning down their offer.At the time, they said they still had an audio manufacturer division, so I'd... | |
| Mono Blocks on a Budget, is it possible? Depends on your budget.http://www.tubes4hifi.com/bob.htm#M125 | |
| Good Speaker within a budget of USD10,000 For far less than $10,000, the Linkwitz LX521 will blow away everything listed here. Most build it as a DIY project, but you could just take the plans to a local cabinet maker and still spend far less than your $10,000 budget. http://linkwitzla... | |
| High End is Dead? Today's $10,000 wonder is tomorrow's $4000 white elephant. I've been saying that kind of thing since 1980. High end audio has never been a big market because the demographic of well-heeled obsessive-compulsive-neurotics who just HAVE to have the... | |
| Need some Amp help - a little new to properly powering speakers The very first thing you need to know is that wattage rating on loudspeakers tells you exactly zero about how they sound. All it tells you is that if you exceed that wattage, you can fry your loudspeaker. I think your current setup is actually q... | |
| Dated but still A rated DACs The problem with digital gear is that it keeps evolving so quickly. Today's $5000 wonder is tomorrow's $2200 White Elephant.I run a Peachtree DAC I bought several years ago for $500. Still sounds great and I need to make no apologies for it. Mo... | |
| Pick A Tube Phono Preamp, but not just any Tube Phono Preamp Get a PH16 from VTA - http://tubes4hifi.com/PH16.htm You won’t find a better phono preamp anywhere. You can buy it as a kit and build it yourself for $700 or fully assembled and tested for $940.The value in building a kit is that you end up being ... | |
| looking for a new pre/amp or integrated amp I run Ubuntu Linux on a laptop old enough to have a Windows Vista sticker on it. Every bit as good a media player as anything you can find on Audiogon costing many thousands of dollars. I run it into a Peachtree DAC, which feeds a standard unbal... | |
| Budget American made speakers? Build the Linkwitz LXmini. They image better than speakers I've heard costing $30,000. Absolutely incredible. You could readily do the whole project for less than $1000, including amplification.http://www.linkwitzlab.com/LXmini/Introduction.htm | |
| Speakers costing range of 2500-3500 per pair You can build the Linkwitz LX521 for about $2800 in drivers, active crossover and pre-cut cabinet parts. You'd have a loudspeaker that nobody here would even come close to surpassing, at ANY price.http://www.linkwitzlab.com/LX521/LX521_4.htm | |
| Musician vs. audiophile I'm a life-long active musician - big band swing trumpet player:http://hornsaplenty.org/My wife is a professional classical violinisthttp://temescalquartet.com/We've both acoustic musicians and so we mostly listen to acoustic music and have a pref... | |
| What are the best loudspeakers under $4000 to re-create lifelike piano This is easy. Build the Linkwitz LX521 system. Easy to do for $4000 or less. And that includes amplification.Siegfried Linkwitz is one of the premier audio techs on the planet, so you already know his design is superbly engineered. It doesn't... | |
| Linkwitz lx521 active speaker system or Emerald Physics EP 2.8 I’ve heard the Linkwitz LX521 on a number of occasions and feel it is unsurpassed. I don’t think there is a better loudspeaker value. But I have not heard the Emerald Physics, so I can’t offer an opinion there. The LX521 is very affordable conside... | |
| For tube sound, which is more important: preamp or power amp? I think this is a false question. There is a great deal of variation between tube preamps and power amps. And let's not forget that tube power amps need to be paired with the right loudspeakers as well. I run a multi-amplified loudspeaker that ... |