tonywinga
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| Fun With Cable Risers If you look at my system page, I show a picture of some cable risers that I made myself. I used ceramic electric fence insulators with 3/4" hardwood dowels and number 33 rubber bands for the suspension. The 4x4" wood platforms sit on rubber feet... | |
| Sonus Faber vs Wilson The subs integrated perfectly into my system. I have to either turn them off or put my hand in front of the cones to tell if they are working. And I agree with you that once you experience that last octave down to 20 Hz it is hard to give it up.... | |
| Sonus Faber vs Wilson Hi James633- I actually have subs in my room. I put them near the corners behind the main speakers. After hearing the Wilson Alexia 2's for the first time, I came back and "tuned" the subs to the room better using what I heard at the store. I p... | |
| Magico A3 price increases 50%+ Yes, some of today’s high performance high powered cars use brushless screw pumps. They cost about $20 to make mated to a $15 controller. Feel better? | |
| Thiel Owners Hi Jafant,I brought home an AQ Niagra power conditioner with an AQ Hurricane power cord. Ow! That hurt the wallet a bit. It was the price of a very good amplifier. Regardless, it is not going back to the store. The biggest improvement? The hi... | |
| Sonus Faber vs Wilson I haven't heard the Sonus Faber line in a couple of decades. The ones I heard some time ago sounded really good to me. However, I have been to my new favorite store in Atlanta three times this past year with my eye on a pair of Wilson speakers t... | |
| Magico A3 price increases 50%+ I was working with some Ford engineers in the early 90's at their proving grounds. Next door to us was the Mustang team. They had a large stack of tires and I could hear their cars on the handling course, tires squealing almost constantly all da... | |
| Thiel Owners Tom,Thank you for the information. I learned something. I ordered a new throw rug for my room to go in front of the speakers. I unwittingly ordered a wool rug because I like wool and I opted for the more expensive fiber pad instead of the much ... | |
| Thiel Owners Hi everyone. I just made a change to my listening room. I removed the carpet and installed 3/4" hardwood flooring. The upgrade exceeded my expectations. The Thiel CS6's have never sounded better. The new floor not only made the bass tighter a... | |
| Thiel Owners Hello brettmcee, I will chime in. I have had my CS6 speakers for 16 years now. I know them pretty well. As far as amplification they need lots of current. The impedance drops to 1 ohm at some frequencies. As a rule if your amp can double wat... | |
| The one must have audiophile hi-res sampler. Thanks for the tip. I bought the hi res FLAC download. The recording quality is very good but the music content is just so so to me. I like Born 2b Blue best by Steve Miller. A few tracks are labeled Single Mic Recording but still have a stere... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Speed and velocity can be confusing for one reason the units are the same- ft/sec, miles per hour, or m/s. For example when driving your car you might maintain a constant speed through a curve and your speedometer shows that your speed is unchang... | |
| Vinyl guy seeking recommendation for a top level cd player We have some on this forum that live by specifications. Since most all CD players have pretty much identical specs, just buy the cheapest CD player you can find and it will sound better than vinyl- by their logic. Of course, most of us know bett... | |
| How old are you? I’m a 63 year old who started playing the piano at 6 and then the violin at 8. I switched to playing the stereo at 19 my first electronic device being a used Kenwood receiver and a pair of 3 way boxes set up in my dorm room. That was 1977. Casset... | |
| What is the sound level of Your Listening Room? I measured 27dBa at 6:30 this morning in my listening room. The birds chirping outside would make it bounce to 29. I was standing about 4 feet away and when my stomach gurgled it jumped to 31. It doesn’t take much to get over 30. When listenin... |