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| How to stop upgrading and aviod going bankrupt???? In Boston, you can join ArtsBoston and get lots of 1/2 price tix to great live music. Handel & Haydn's performance last night of Italian Christmas (Pergolesi, Durante, Corelli, et al), equalled that of the Boston Baroque's Messiah the previous... | |
| Wadia 861 or keep Electrocompaniet mk2 I'm with the Swamp. Why don't you just try it? I demo'd a Wadia directly into my Aleph 2s, and STRONGLY preferred my current EMC-1 MkII SE through my Aleph P. But that could have as much to do with proper impedence-matching with the Alephs as my p... | |
| Power cords,15A and 20A.What's the difference? Good one, Bob. Yes, almost all 15 and 20a male ACs and many duplexes have the same contacts, just different geometry. IEC320 connectors continue to be the weak link here. (The affordable Schurter 4781.0100 IS a good one for high current, but only ... | |
| Power cords Bottomsup, if you're handy with a screwdriver you can build a very fine PC for well under $50. RSVP, and Happy Holidays. | |
| I need a Pre-Amp What should I get? Yeah, the ADCOM GFP750 for $600-700 would probably be a best bet. I decided years ago to NOT risk this ADCOM's sketchy version of the Nelson Pass design and got the real thing (Aleph P) used for $1800 instead. You'd never outgrow it. | |
| On Wall Speakers? Hey Tubino...Slip's comment is not pathetic! Case and punctuation in normal discourse is NOT a choice, as you put it. This isn't a poetry fest....Spendor's SR5 wasn't around last year, so I backed my Spendor front trio (SP3/1 and SC3) with Boston ... | |
| subwooferability ??? I like my Boston Acoustics PV1000 "Velodyne clone". Under $1k discounted, fast and strong. Nice in cherry, too. Keeps up with and mates with my HT system's Spendor front trio nicely. Less importantly, their VR-MX di/bi surrounds are keepers, too. | |
| Digital vs. Analog a reasoned comparison Accuphase must be shuddering! Let's not get UNreasoned...! | |
| Favorite integrated amp? Yup: Arcams or the Audio Refinement Complete Integrated as a bargain. | |
| Omnidirectional speakers. The future? Fine posts, all. I designed my first speaker system as an omni (vertical-radiating planar?) back as a teen in the late 60s, using a Utah triaxial driver sitting upfiring into a plaster-filled kitchen funnel mounted in a wooden "basket", the whole ... | |
| Sub crossover setting.... The Rat Shack is quite linear throughout the bass region, so other test CDs with bass warbles will work too. You're predominantly interested in flattening the 40, 50, 63, 80, 100, 125, 160 and 200Hz points into as flat a response as possible. Abov... | |
| digital versus analog cables for CD players Viggen's right. Truthlinks are great, and what I use on my MD100 tuner to take down the FM birdies just a tiny bit. If you want a bit more top end there are plenty of choices, notably Nordosts, HT Pro-Silways, et al. | |
| Verity Parsifal Encore You bet! Somewhere I wrote a long history of this debacle. Maybe a search will retrieve it. In short, my room is quite dead, with placement requiremnents creating a 7.5' triangle 8 feet out from the front wall (Steinway B back there). I demoed Fid... | |
| Speaker break-in tips.. Hi again, Warren. Most break-in is about woofer surrounds, then all driver spiders. Quickest exercise is to face speakers together a foot or so apart, ONE out of phase, and play anything dynamic for a few days. The bottom octave will fill in as th... | |
| Ground loop, cheater plugs, power cords, many ques Holzhauer...could work fine to unscramble potential loops, but be careful if salivating kids or critters visit! |