tomic601
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| Who are some of elite sub woofers? yes Duke for those of us running Vandersteen floor standers w built in subs and EQ adding more vanderyEq subs gets most If not all the swarm effect. There is some spatial info above the filter, so placement is still important.what is amazing and s... | |
| Naim Nait Integrateds... Sound Quality Comparison, User Comments and Bang for the Buck @viridian when you come up bring Eric @bdp24 with you, I owe him a listen as well. he lives your neck of the woods...Tim next time you are here in California I will just let you rummage thru the booze stash, some of it can in a pinch be used to cl... | |
| Recommendation on power amp OP none of the Ayre dealers I know carry Chord...but no matter, you have fantastic amps and a great company behind them !!!! enjoy them in good healthbestJim | |
| Herbies Pucks floor spike protectors... as I recall OP has 5a. I have used the Vandersteen spike shoes with five A, 7’s and the amps which are also spiked on both tile and hardwood to good effect. they are machined w felt and fit your cones, reasonable for made in USa, available thru yo... | |
| Where would you sell your vinyl collection? a word of caution, new pressing quality rarely deserves a mint rating...IMOthanks for your discogs ID, I will have a lookI agree with general assessment of ebay vs discogs and selling the lot will be difficult at anything approaching a fair yield.... | |
| Recommendation on power amp OP sorry I just saw you bought the MXR-20 series...OMG you will love them and they sound like magic ten minutes in out of standbyhave fun !!!!!!!Jim | |
| Recommendation on power amp I owned the VX-R Twenty for several years driving Vandersteen model 7 Mk2 not a warm speaker at all - magical sound and ayre amps competes well above the $20 K range. Some would say IF you can live with 200 W, it sounds better than the MX-R. I hav... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Like, Love & Lust and the Open Halls of the Soulwonder of a double album, available direct from Barsuk records for $12 and shipping....what a deal.... | |
| JC3+ With Kleos SL? keep us posted, love my Delos but when I wear it out I am sure I will move North up the Lyra line. FWIW the Delos reacts well to a fine tonearm, I lucked into a Triplaner which seems magical...enjoy the music.Jim | |
| Why don't we make a list of best pressings ? Discogs is great for finding real Japanese vinyl graded fairly often in M or M- condtion...I just got Little Feat - Dixie Chicken in a mint copy shipped to me for under $30.....yowsa.... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? today which ran into last eve..Bob M and the Wailers - Babylon by BusJohn Hiatt - Live from Austin TXDead - Wake of The FloodJJ Cale - Rewindand spinning nowHiatt - The Eclipse Sessions | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @stevecham zero for three in my collection anyway...will do my best to check them out on Tidal tho...one of the reasons I love this thread... | |
| Vinyl vs high def audio i.e. 24bit / 96 or 192khz but even tho the OP seems to have settled on the digital path, I see value in extension of the thread past silly generalizations....very much possible to build an emotionally satisfying digital system....I spent many years doing that...as well as ... | |
| Vinyl vs high def audio i.e. 24bit / 96 or 192khz and memory is emotion which is electrochemical... | |
| Replace Caps? String - you might check a couple of things like cones on speakers tight against washers, check also for resonance in room furniture, tables, art on wall ( ask me how I know ! Ugh ), also use your vandertones to see if it is isolated to subput hea... |