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| ESL speakers : looking for something..need help I second the Acoustat 1+1. These are and were one of the great electrostat designs. They do need a high current amplifier. Your Bryston might do the trick but see if you can find an Acoustat TNT 200 it was built for those speakers. Or if you want ... | |
| Best Amp. stands Try Sound Anchors!They are excellent and probably one of the best available. | |
| SS/Mono Amps Warm,Musical,Detailed Try the Levinson 436 monoblocks. Buy them on Audiogon. They do the trick for me.Steven | |
| Maggie's and cats Duct Tape to the rescue! Make duct tape rolls, sticky side out, place the duct tape rolls on a piece of poster board or manilla folder, place the "land mines" around the perimenter of the speakers. Cats hate duct tape on their feet and will soon a... | |
| Advice Please: Decent shielding value cable I like the Synergistic Research cables. The Alpha Sterling sound quite good especicially in the intro price range. Make sure to get the active shielding models with mini power couplers. The blackness of your system will increase dramatically as wi... | |
| need comments on my system You might consider some room treatments. Room Lenses could make a big differnce along with damping the reflection points if you haven't done this yet. I also like to LRNRD bass traps by Auralex. They will easily improve the quality of your bass an... | |
| Best 4 or 5 shelf rack for electronics Billy Bags racks are of high quality both sonically and aesthetically. I have a 5505 for sale (5 shelves in green nebula, black rack), because I'm switching to a lowboy for my new room. I'm asking $500 obo. It would be best to pick it up but could... | |
| Stereo or Monoblocks for the Salon The ultimate will be two pair of monoblocks. I would use 4 direct lines to them with the left channels hooked up in a dual differential setup so that 1 pair is hooked up on one leg of the bus and the other on the opposite.As for crossovers, it dep... | |
| HELP - buzzing on Magnepan 3.6R; repair or not? I used to own Magnepan 3.6rs and I feel there is nothing wrong with your speaker system. Magnepan's frequently "bottom out" or make a slapping sound when playing heavy bass notes with rock and roll or other music at moderatly high levels. This phe... | |
| Amp for my Salons F155mph,Yes the Salons are deadly accurate. If the recording is musical the Salons are musical, if the recording is cold and sterile so too are the Salons. They are true chameleons is this respect, and for that matter this is or was the philosophy... | |
| Legacy Audio I'm very impressed with the Legacy Focus speakers both musically and their beautiful construction. They sound fantastic with my friend's KSA-250.Good hunting,Steven | |
| Amp for my Salons Hi,I own Salons and have auditioned them with Krell 350 monoblocks (whatever the newest version is!) and they just sounded ok. I liked a friend's KSA-250 much better than the newer Krell stuff on the Salons. I audtioned the Classe CAM-350s for a c... | |
| biamping nautilus 801 with different amps I am currently biamping Revel Salons with 4 436 monoblocks in a vertically biamped setup. At this time I don't have matching interconnects going from the preamp to the four amps. One can easily tell the difference between the sound quality of the ... | |
| Can ASL Hurricanes drive Legacy Focus 20/20? Yes, the Legacy's are quite efficient but they will get better and better with quality equipment. My friend has a pair and they are awesome. Good listening,Sgr | |
| Help With Optimal Revel Studio Placement? It would be helpful to know what kind of equipment you have: amps, preamp, disc player, etc. This can have an impact. Your setup is problemeatic. For a worthwhile primer go to rivesaudio.com and try out the CARA room optimizer software and look at... |