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| Is it taboo to mod a speaker? Modding speakers is not uncommon but completely changing drivers is. While this "might" be a step forward in some designs, doing such without looking at the design as a whole could result in a BIG step backwards. Sean> | |
| Diural's Roman Centurion Spk:Good or already Gone? Zspradlin: I've yet to see ANY 8" woofer reproduce 16 Hz with authority. The fact that the same driver would have to cover the mids too is quite a task. That must be one helluva driver / speaker design. Sean> | |
| what really happened to j. skul Capeguy: As far as i know, that is the truth. I had corresponded with J-10 about this on a few occasions and that was all that was said. I guess only J-10, JA and possibly some other Stereophile employees might be the only ones that know the "whol... | |
| Should I modify my Sony s9000es or get a DAC? My experience is that the same amount of money invested in internal modifications as performed by someone that knows what they are doing will typically easily outperform an external unit of similar value. Whether you recoupe your value on the unit... | |
| The Best System In The World For the lazy folks here, click on the links below. For those posting links, we appreciate your sharing the info, but it's NOT hard to make them "clickable". Sean>Top 10 Audio Systems Positive Feedback | |
| what really happened to j. skul J-10 was simply caught in the middle of budget cuts. The owners of Stereophile wanted to reduce overhead and reducing the quantity of staff writers was an instant way to achieve that goal.With that in mind, others might say "phooey" to that as Ste... | |
| CAL Delta/Alpha vs Music Hall CD25: A comparison I have owned well over a dozen different CAL DAC's. All i can say is that none of them sounded the same, even when taking tubes from one and putting them into another DAC and using the same transport / digital cable / power cords feeding them. I g... | |
| Chassis ground and balanced mode - please help me hahaha.... as they say, it's the simple stuff that'll kill ya : ) Glad to see that it really was simple : ) Sean> | |
| Unsettled and considering changing stuff Jeff: How did you arrange the wiring in the Micro-Purls when you wired them up for balanced operation ? It is quite possible that re-arranging how you have these wires pinned out could offer sonic benefits at no cost other than some elbow grease a... | |
| bryston 4b with NHT 2.5's opinions The non-linear byproducts ( distortion ) of a Bryston 4B take off like crazy above 2 KHz as documented in IAR 4. Moncrieff also documents that the 4B is load sensitive i.e. it changes tonal balance as the impedance varies. His findings are that th... | |
| AR ES-1....To clamp or not to clamp?? Plato is right on the money. You have to use something that is very low in mass. As you know, the ES-1 does not have much of a suspension, so be careful what you spend your money on. I set one of these tables up for my Dad and experimented with it... | |
| CAL Delta/Alpha vs Music Hall CD25: A comparison Mike & Joe: I always find this kind of stuff interesting. One thing that you forgot to mention was what cable you used to link between the Delta and Alpha ? In my experience, simply changing that cable could make a noticeable difference in per... | |
| Unsettled and considering changing stuff Since the majority of your listening is vinyl, why not shoot for a new phono stage? That seems like the most logical place to start. Given the fact that you like your tubed preamp, a tubed phono stage might give you more of what you are looking fo... | |
| High efficiency speakers vs Low, pros and cons Roy aka gma@pcisys.net: Thanks for your contribution regarding speaker design and the way that you worded it. It was very well put and easy to understand. I'm glad that you have the ability to speak in terms that the average audio enthusiast can f... | |
| Shanling T100 owners, please help As a general rule, tubes will be noisier than SS circuitry. BUT, and this entails a lot of factors, "good" tube circuitry with good tubes can be very quiet. Much of this has to do with the circuit design itself while a good portion may be related ... |