sdcampbell
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| Epos ELS 3 Read the review in the January 2004 issue of "Stereophile" for more info .. and at least one reviewer's opinions. | |
| Arm/cartridge weight measurement What you need is a stylus force gauge, which measures the tracking force of the stylus on the record (as opposed to the actual weight of the tonearm / cartridge). The least expensive decent stylus force gauge is the Shure SFG-2, which costs about ... | |
| High efficiency speakers for home theater? There is one other speaker line with high effiency that I should have included on my list above: the Legacy Audio line. Their Focus 20/20 is quite efficient (rated at 96db sensitivity, as I recall), and a very fine speaker. I had my first chance t... | |
| 2 ch HT/music...hope to hear from the 2 ch purists I think it's great that you want to help your Dad assemble a new audio system. I wish my Dad was still able to hear music -- he's 87, and is nearly deaf. While I have been a 2-channel purist for most of my audiophile life, I have come to enjoy HT ... | |
| Best 3 "channel" Amp "Under $2000.00" ??? "NEW" Your $2000 "new" price will leave out the Bryston 6B-ST (which sold new for about $2700), but you might be able to find it used for uner $2k. I use a Bryston 5B-ST (3 x 150 wpc) to drive the center and rear surrounds (and Bryston 4B-ST for the lef... | |
| High efficiency speakers for home theater? There are three other lines of speaker systems that you should also investigate, particularly if you are planning to use them for HT as well as music:1. Klipsch (US);2. JBL (US);3. Coincident Technologies (Canadian). | |
| what the THX ? As Beavis notes, Tom Holman designed a pretty nice preamp back in the 1970's. It was called the APT Holman preamp, and I had one for about a year and liked it very much. For it's time, it was a very good unit. | |
| von Schweikert VR-4 vs Vandersteen 5A I think the un-named highly placed audiophiles are in error, and should spend more time listening to live music and comparing what they hear to the sound of the 5A's. I do not mean to denigrate the von Schweikert's in any way -- they are also a fi... | |
| Question about cartridges and pre amp I'm not the best tutor on this subject, but since there have been no responses to you I'll start the ball rolling and maybe others will add to / clarify my comments.First, a word about the use of "db" as a measurement: the decibel is not an actual... | |
| Does the length of an interconnect degrade the sou Fatparrot makes the key point here: balanced interconnects were specifically designed for use in recording situations, where the length of the cable could be significant. For short runs under 2 meters or so, unbalanced interconnects are usually fi... | |
| Amps for Vandersteen 5A All of the above comments are essentially correct. None of the Vandy line of speakers are terribly finicky about amplification, provided that it's of good quality (i.e., with sufficient power and power supply). I've driven my own Vandy speakers (2... | |
| Hovland musicap capacitor: What does it do? I'm sure someone will give you a more technical explanation, but -- in simple language -- a Zobel network prevents an amplifier from going into oscillation when driving some speakers (fortunately a very small number). Zobel networks can also be us... | |
| Acoustic Sounds 45's Jazz series "OJC" refers to the "Original Jazz Classics" series of reissues that Fantasy records did in the mid to late 1980's. The reissues included several hundred of the best jazz recordings of the 1950's and 1960's, mainly from the Contemporary and Rivers... | |
| Recommendations on mid-fi speakers The one speaker I think you should add to your list for audition is the Vandersteen 2CE Signature, which is one of the true high-end audio values. | |
| Treating records with LAST preservative An interesting "mixed bag" of opinions here. To add one more voice, I've been using LAST preservative on my vinyl records for about 30 years, and have had uniformly good results with it. Of course, I thoroughly wet-clean my LP's first, using a Nit... |