terry9
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| Looking for a good system for my apartment. Any advise? I've owned 3 pairs of those Quads for a dozen years, and only one panel has failed. Also a HV transformer. They sound great in the stereo room and unbelievable as HT center channel. Magnepans sound very fine too - but different. And they're a whol... | |
| Looking for a good system for my apartment. Any advise? Should have mentioned: Magnepan speakers are VERY apartment friendly because the bass does not travel as much. | |
| Looking for a good system for my apartment. Any advise? Sorry. Correctioncable cost/benefit: not much bang for buck is what I tried to say. | |
| Looking for a good system for my apartment. Any advise? First thing is to audition speakers. They are as different as cuisine. I would be absolutely certain to audition Magnepan speakers.When I was in a similar situation, I fell in love with Magnepan speakers and spent 70% of the budget there. It was a... | |
| Speakers sound brighter at evening / night? Quite right. Memory failed on the first name. Ott may not have discovered the cells, but he identified numerous effects, which no-one took seriously for years and years. | |
| Speakers sound brighter at evening / night? Direct receptors of light? Yep.Charles Ott proved that way back when - trouble was, psychology was even less of a science then, than it is now. I used to demonstrate some of his effects to students, just for devilment. | |
| Cartridge reliability I heard something recently about stylus longevity. My dealer said in passing that he was glad he sold me a Koetsu, because some clients had experienced excessive wear on some other expensive cartridges. This may be for any number of reasons, like ... | |
| Planar speaker characteristics Ever since first hearing Tympani 1a's, the first Stereophile Class A speaker, I have owned only planars. T1a, SMGa, MGIIb, MGIIc, Martin Logan Prodigy, Quad ESL57, 2805, 2905.A piano has a soundboard of 20 square feet or more. A cone speaker just... | |
| Relative Spending on Turntables and Cartridges What do you get with more money?Turntable: less bearing noise, less motor noise. Blacker background. Better dynamics.Tonearm: better registration of the cartridge to the record. Ability to adjust cartridge for optimal performance and keep it that ... | |
| Telefunken vacuum tube E88CC-TK; NOS versus brand new. According to the old stories, HP used to hire co-op students to test their E88CC's etc. and reject 98% of them. A percent or two got to bear the HP logo. Those tubes populated the instruments that sent men to the moon.They sound better than the re... | |
| Amp repair cost — is this right? @grannyring @georgehifi make a really good point: some equipment is easy to work on, some is hard. Parts cost may be swamped by labour costs, if you want it done even half right.Ralph @atmasphere is probably judging by his own good design, whic... | |
| High mass vs Low Mass Turntables - Sound difference? Sorbothane is a material like any other. It has properties which can advance some assemblies and retard others. I use it to isolate the motor from the platter - but you need about 75 mm to attenuate the noise which my motor generates. | |
| How to physically move large heavy 100lb amplifiers easily (up and downstairs) I have similar problems moving equipment from my lab to my music room. Forty pounds with a dolly is my absolute limit. For the 90 pound platter and 100 pound speakers, ALWAYS use movers. ALWAYS. | |
| Speakers which always sound good Ah. | |
| Speakers which always sound good Eric, to answer your last question, room dimensions. Since you are looking, I suggest that you consider the optimal room dimensions discovered by U of Salford's School of Acoustics. They have done the simulations, which are available to the public... |