stanwal
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| Sub for Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage I use REL and you can drive them either off preamp outputs or off the power outputs of the amp. Both REL and I think that is the better way. This way you are not running your signal through any additional circuitry; you will get exactly the same s... | |
| Thiel speaker placement - am I crazy? And the individual speakers differ greatly as to toe in etc. My Spendors sound best [to me] with the axis of the tweeters crossed in front of the listener. In fact that is what Spendor recommends. My friends Wilson's have much less toe in; of cour... | |
| Thiel speaker placement - am I crazy? I am reporting you to the placement police, they will be there any moment. Seriously, put them where you like them. Some like to sit at the back of the concert hall, some up front, the music sounds quite different by moving just a few seats; a rec... | |
| "They are here" vs. "You are there" "You Are There" was a great TV show! | |
| Room Treatments - How? The measurement programs will give you an idea of the problems of your room, they will not tell you which product would work best or where to place them. How could they given the multitude of products on the market. That will have to be done by yo... | |
| Room Treatments - How? I had good luck with Ready Acoustics, I sent them a photo of my room with the dimensions and they told me what I would need. Have experimented with more or less but found their recommendation was the best sound I have achieved. Their products are ... | |
| if one midrange needs a new foam surround, should Yes, I am having some woofers foam surrounds replaced and the guy doing it said he was always having people bring one in only to have to bring in another shortly after. If you do them at the same time you might get a better price but you will cert... | |
| ss multi-ch. amps vs multi seperate amps any adv. In general the multi channel amps I am familiar with are not to the same standard as 2 channel or mono ones. They are designed to a different market that is perceived to have different priorities; there is no inherent reason that this should be so... | |
| A Preamp for ARS Filarmonia ? The Adcom is not a passive preamp as it has gain.See the following quote from the Stereophile test.Other than glue logic and the transistors used to drive the relays, the 12 active devices—four gain blocks, each with three devices—are HEXFETs from... | |
| Stylus Question for AR ES- Table--Survey adivce The AT is good but not the easiest to set up, better for the more experienced. Not knowing the rest of your system or your taste I would suggest that the Denon 110 is very good and a great buy. It is a high output MC which will work into MM inputs... | |
| Audio quality: Cable vs. Satellite? Cable is much more compressed in my experience, not nearly as good as DirectTV. I have Direct now and have had cable many times in the past. While some programs are much better in sound quality than others I don't find any of them harsh, something... | |
| Basis Vector 4 arm question I have had other arms that were damped and the amount does make a difference but the effect on the sound depends on the cartridge and rest of the system, I never found any rule except experimenting till you have it the way you like it. | |
| A major disconnect between the audiophile magazine Actually, they were Musical Fidelity in the UK and British Fidelity in the US, as a company which had ceased operations still held the Musical Fidelity trademark over here. I was one of their dealers and sold the 270 which was especially good on t... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? There was a basic design flaw in many of the classic MMs, the compliance was simply too high to work properly in most, if not any, tone arm. High compliance was seen as a goal in itself and not as an aid to better sound. The response was to make l... | |
| Audiophiles are older than dirt I remember when the tubes were the latest thing, they replaces a system of metal boxes which traveled on an open metal lattice up to the cashiers office, much cooler to watch. But not as cool as the automated donut making operation a department st... |