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| Buying a used amp for $2500 with out auditioning The Bryston 4B-ST and 4B-SST are excellent amplifiers, but may not be the best "fit" with your Cantons, which can be rather hard and bright with the wrong amp, so I am reluctant to endorse your plan to buy an amp without auditions. Of course, if y... | |
| Does It Make Sense to Purchase Dunlavy Speakers This is a tough call, but personally I would not buy Dunlavy speakers at this point UNLESS you got an incredibly good price. There are simply too many other good speakers available today. If you want to purchase time- and phase-coherent speakers, ... | |
| Best phone preamp for under $500. About 18 months ago, when I was also looking for very good quality phono preamp in the $500 (used) range, I considered several models and eventually chose the Lehmann Audio Black Cube SE (the model with the much larger power supply). I have been v... | |
| Vandersteens and subwoofers other than the 2Wq? There has been a lot of discussion on A-gon over the past 18 months or so about the Vandersteen subwoofers (2Wq and V2W). If you have not perused the A-gon archives, I think you should do so -- there is a lot of information that will be informativ... | |
| Van Alstine: Anyone heard of them? Sure, Audio by Van Alstine has been around since at least the late 1970's. Van Alstine has made a nice living doing complete re-builds of tube equipment originally made by other manufacturers, such as Dynaco. His products perform well, although th... | |
| What kind of rear speaker? My listening room is of moderate size, and I don't really have an acceptable way to mount speakers on the sides of the room, so my surround speakers are located behind the listener. After experimenting with both direct radiator, dipole, and bipole... | |
| Nondirectional & Inaudible Bass: What Frequencies? Well, there are two perspectives on the issue of "directionality" with bass frequencies. Some folks will say that bass frequencies become essentially non-directional below about 40 Hz, while others will argue that we are much aware of low-frequenc... | |
| Help with TT recommendations. Since you are open to buying used gear, I think you should also consider the VPI HW-19 Mk4. This TT is not only an excellent performer, but a great value at its used price. (FWIW, The Absolute Sound recently included the HW-19 Mk 4 on their recomm... | |
| Need help from Vandy 3A owners..... Hi, Phillip:I own a pair of Vandy 3A Sig's, but giving you their serial numbers won't help much. Sorry you weren't satisfied with Richard Vandersteen's response. Personally, I'd accept his answer regarding the speaker's age. Richard may sometimes ... | |
| Thinking about new cartridge You don't indicate what other equipment you own, or what kind of "sound" you want in a cartridge, so it's a bit difficult to know what to suggest to you. There are two cartridges, however, that I think ought to be on your audition list:1. Grado "R... | |
| Hum causes: MC cart, arm cables or phono stage ?? Low output moving coil cartridges are more likely than moving magnet designs to exacerbate problems with hum, since the signal voltage generated by MC's is much weaker and has to be amplified significantly before going to the preamp. I have not ha... | |
| Recommendations for a nice direct view set Several weeks ago, I made a post to a similar thread that summarized the ratings of TV's by "The Perfect Vision". If you are interested in the thread, here is the link:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?bhome&1038794285&openusid&z... | |
| Hopelessly corny I think that when it comes to music, you tend to love what you grew up with or enjoyed while still relatively young. But if that's true, I'm glad I won't be around to see a bunch of old geezers groovin' to some raunchy rap or hip-hop... | |
| Vandersteen 1c vs. 1b...drastic improvement? Based on my own farily extensive listening experiences with the 1B vs. 1C, I'd say the differences are subtle at best. Most of the changes in Vandersteen speakers, regardless of the model number, involve incremental improvements, and as such you w... | |
| Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" Some time ago, I made a long post about Miles Davis and the "Kind of Blue" recording and why it was important in jazz circles. Rather than try to recap what I wrote, here is the link to my old post:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?rmusi&... |