terry9
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| Looking for vintage Quad ESL's - or my wife thinks a "shrink" becase she says I'm crazy! Byang, must disagree.I have found Quads to be perfectly reliable - but then, I have never pushed them hard.As for OTL's, as I understand, it is true that a good protection circuit is necessary, because if something goes badly wrong, it can send a ... | |
| Looking for vintage Quad ESL's - or my wife thinks a "shrink" becase she says I'm crazy! Good ears you have.I have owned three types of Magnepans and three types of ESL's. I say Quads, hands down.ESL 57's are wonderfully musical speakers. 2805's add an octave high and low but sound a tad bright to me, while 2905's add those octaves an... | |
| Gonna have to ditch the Soundsmith Carmen II Consider the torque on the mounting screws. Sounds like hokum, but IME it can have a significant effect. I use a German torque screwdriver. | |
| Your Favorite High Quality Audio Bulk Cable Manufacturer? I use Japanese brands for interconnect: Canare and Mogami. Canare Starquad has a great shield but is hard to terminate, whereas Mogami’s shield is not braided, and so easier to terminate. ETI connectors are very good, being non-capacative. | |
| Coming out of the blackhole called work...retirement AMG, that's why you want to do DIY !Who else is going to make an arm-board out of graphene film on a nickel matrix? | |
| Coming out of the blackhole called work...retirement Acoustics Research Centre - the University of Salford Architectural and Building Acoustics Room sizing for studios | |
| Coming out of the blackhole called work...retirement AMG, another thing - room dimensions. You are really close to cubic, and that's not good. I suggest that you look up University of Salford (UK) research into acoustics. They have done a lot of work on optimal rooms. | |
| Coming out of the blackhole called work...retirement Welcome AMG.Life begins at retirement - at least, it did for me. I could not afford the system I wanted - so I began to build my own equipment. Consider DIY - it's far more rewarding than just buying stuff.Now after 15 years of DIY, I have an ESL ... | |
| Aftermarket Fuses Not to hijack the thread, but there is an obvious difference with CIRCUIT BREAKERS: less internal resistance, better sound. Since internal resistance tends to be a monotonically decreasing function of current rating, it is a simple trade-off: more... | |
| Reducing Background Noise On Records I suggest a $20 test.Send a record or two out for ultrasonic cleaning. I had a VPI 16.5, and now clean ultrasonically. Big differences, noise among them. | |
| First investment into a turntable Set-up is very important and very under-rated. A well-set-up budget TT can outperform a poorly set-up unit at 10x the price. So you might want to buy from a local, maybe a dealer, who can do proper set-up.One more word: there are lots of people wh... | |
| Set me straight, don't pull punches MP, if you like ML, you might want to audition Quads and Magnepans. I have owned and enjoyed all three, but eventually settled on Quads. I especially like the 2905's, now 2912's I understand. | |
| What solution to clean silver and gold contacts? @ljgerens A question for you, please. I remove silver tarnish by putting the silver in electrical contact with aluminum foil, and immerse both in a hot solution of baking soda. The sulphate ion bonds to the aluminum, leaving the silver intact with... | |
| Who makes budget speaker cables which are truly “good” or “exceptional” in quality? Who makes budget speaker cables which are truly “good” or “exceptional” in quality?You do!!@unreceivedogma is right. With two caveats:1. Unless you are running long cables, in which case you want to minimize inductance, by having the two conductor... | |
| Any Bryston 4B3 amp owners out there? For a few years I used 3B and 4B SST’s on two pairs of new Quads, for casual listening, and AtmaSpheres for careful listening. The Bryston sound was good, the build bulletproof.Ancient history, I know, but might help a little.Why not call the fact... |