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| No one cares this is the anniversary? My Dad was D+10, an uncle D+2. My father NEVER spoke of his involvement (through the Normandy campaign, the Ardennes (phew!), the Rhineland, and finally a bit of peace-keeping in Czechosolvakis before his return 1/45.He was a sharpshhooter, mannin... | |
| Advice Please: Decent shielding value cable The Topaz are indeed a bit closed in, using cheap dielectric. Try to find a nicely-shielded all-Teflon design. Used Harm Tech Truthlink might be a winner for ya, for example. | |
| organ tube amps No top end, as organ harmonics topped out at around 4kHz (e.g., Hammond) so that's all the bandpass that was required. | |
| How about a contest? You mean like mobile audio jamborees, or whatever they're called? Sigh...I have enough to do managing work, kids, getting to as many LIVE music events as I can...and now KAYAKING (whoopie!), to worry about whether my finely-honed systems pass anyb... | |
| Electrocompaniet CDP--SE upgrade I'm not sure I have the time to take in this upgrade...nor the hassle of dealing with handling 50 lb boxes, but I'll gladly get you the parts cheap. Local install's about 3-4 hours at most. Ern | |
| Looking for first system advice 1973, since the dB scale is logarythmic, each 10dB increase corresponds with a 10x requirement in amplifier power...simple math illustrates that +3dB requires a doubling of amplifier power; also remember that +6dB corresponds with a doubling of "p... | |
| Pass Aleph P Feeding two amplifiers? No. Just the Aleph 2s and the 'phones. Ern | |
| blue collar workers After an initial career in lab equipment manufacturing I slowly transformed into Boston's Subaruguru. Ha! So now I try to protect my piano-playing fingers while burning them on hot heads and cutting them when building PCs. Today's my b-day (52), s... | |
| HELP with Speakers for a 11 ft X 12 ft room??? Square rooms are nearly impossible. Try to asymmetrically damp the walls, set up a tight nearfield triangle and move it (and yourself) around the room to reduce bass res and slap-echo. I have friends who have squarish dining rooms with wooden floo... | |
| What are your favorite monitors? If you like the S3/5 I strongly suggest you find either a pair of s3/1p (6.5" woofer, vented) or, interestingly, a pair of the now-discontinued SC3 center channels set on edge as a l/r pair (TWO 5" woofers flanking that tweeter, vented). Both thes... | |
| Is the significance of room acoustics overrated? By whom? | |
| Verity Parsifal Encore Symposium or SRA platform I asked Julien Pelchat (VA) about that, and he STRONGLY advised against it, saying they spent a LOT of time getting this lossy-but-stiff interface just right. So I dunno.... | |
| Sytrofoam peanuts and EVIL and worthless Yes, the biodegradable ones are made from corn starch I think, and thus are actually edible...melt in your mouth! | |
| My first real hi-end audio system Please advise I didn't take the time to read the posts (forgive me...it's my birthday!), but the LAST thing I'd do is give up M20s without a serious attempt to integrate them into a system. My daughter should be so lucky that I get a pair for HER first system! ... | |
| Looking for first system advice Here's a pretty forgiving, highly musical combo:Spendor S3/1p ($1400/$800 new/used, 88-89dB/w), a decent new integrated from NAD ($500?) or used Audio Refinement Complete ($600) and the NAD C541i/542 ($300/400). Add some Canare Starquad speakercab... |