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| Zaikesman's Username Pronunciation Field Guide Subaruguru is often pronounced "cheap-Audi guy" by the cognoscenti. | |
| Soundstage and the effect of the rear wall A flat but precise soundstage can be effected with bookshelf (or other close-boundary support) mounting. However, soundstage depth can't really exist behind the speaker plane except via frequency-related nonlinearities (psychoacoustic tricks). Spe... | |
| Try this before upgrading I had an old friend who stuffed his system with 4 pairs of different speakers, eventually making it sound a bit like an automobile system. I taught him to sit in one place with only two GOOD speakers and learn what a stage is. He doesn't call me a... | |
| Thoughts on Merlin VSM M vs. Verity Fidelio Be sure to perform in-room demos as the rear-firing woofs of the Fidelio work best with some front-wall boundary support. For example, in my setup where the speaker plane is 8 feet out, I was forced to seek Parsifal Encores, allowing bass-pod swin... | |
| Noobie Question on speaker cable for my system Check out what the pro recording engineers often use: Canare StarQuad. Comes in two gauges (14 and 11), and is a ridiculous bargain for HT. | |
| Introduction and classic equipment Welcome back. Lots of us phoenixes abound.... Contact cleaner sprays work well, btw. | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC II CD Player Jm88...haven't heard the BAT, but the vocals in my XLR'd EMC-1 are clearly rendered and spookily real. Tubes do this well, too, of course, but sometimes via a mid-band spectral "bump". The power supplies' diodes mod clearly brought the stage forwa... | |
| Small floorstander recommendations Spendor has just replaced the S6 with the smaller S5, at $1400. You can probably steal a vestigial pair of S6s for under $1k.... | |
| EMC-1 Owners Spider Alert $265 is still too high! | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC II CD Player On second thought I fear that the above-mentioned offers could be cons, as a couple of these emails stated that the seller was a "dealer" represented in many countries, etc., but happened to be in England at the time, blah blah blah, again all in ... | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC II CD Player Hi guys. Here's a weird corrolary. A Dane end-user posted his seemingly-older (it's hard to tell from the bad English) 240v EMC-1 on eBay, now sitting at $2225. I had thrown out a silly low bid early in the week just to track it automatically (cal... | |
| How do I replace an outlet? Great post, Elizabeth! I also routinely replace dupes live, even showing my 16yr old daughter while doing it. Yet I remember as a kid I was fixing an old transformerless 5-tuber in the basement, poking around live with my requisite one-hand-behind... | |
| Dedicated circuit? And if it's really OLD and exercised by high-current use the junky insulation is probably of lower dielectric involvement, so it'll sound cleaner up top than a NEW Romex line, too! | |
| Do It Yourself Speakers After building a run of nice two-ways in the early 90s I decided to build a three-way of higher performance. After LOTS of work I had ONE mono prototype (8" Peerless +5+0.75" SEAS) voiced really well. After learning that subtle crossover value shi... | |
| Where to start with room acoustics Don't fear that you have to buy lots of truly ugly hardware to properly dampen a room, either. My 14x24-30x8 with lots of openings still sounds quite properly "dead" because of wall-to-wall, stuffed sofa (L) and big chair (R), each topped with a p... |