tswhitsel
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| Advice on building a dedicated listening room. I have built two rooms and have had very good results at minimum expense (of course I did most of the labor myself). Room dimensions are very very important and you want to try and get close to the ideal. Elgordo's advice above is good as you are ... | |
| Class A amplifier choice, need suggestions I know they're a bit rare, but let's not forget the BEL 1001. Exceptional performance and often overlooked because you don't see them for sale much. | |
| Best speaker 3k to 4k used? I too would recommend the Aerial 10T, which I believe continues to be one of the best buys available and pretty easy to find in the upper end of your price range in excellent condition. Unless you have a very large room you do not need a high powe... | |
| What is the worst colour of speaker finish to you? Who really cares? This is a good website, but the increasing number of banal posts such as this is getting old. | |
| Linn or VPI I'm curious why you have limited yourself to Linn and VPI? There are many excellent turntable choices these days. The big drawback to the Linn has always been the set-up issue. I personally would not want to rely on someone else to keep my table i... | |
| HT Choice Aerial 10T or B&W N803? I would recommend the 10Ts over the B&W. I find the Aerial to be more musical and easier to integrate with your room. B&W can tend to be bright sounding and this combined with many poor quality sounding movie soundtracks can be painful. I'... | |
| Stereo amp to drive one center channel speaker? I use a Classe Seventy, which cannot be bridged mono for my center channel. The Aerial model 5 I use for the center can be biwired so I just use a 'Y' connector from my processor and drive the tweeter with one channel and the woofer with the other... | |
| Analogue Upgrade Help. Save your money and buy a Grado Reference high output version. If you're in no hurry you'll find a great deal on one sooner or later on Audiogon. You will be thrilled with this cartridge. I use a low ouput version (1mV)on my Well Tempered Referenc... | |
| Reasonable preamps with phono stage Too many people use CD only and do not want to pay extra for a phono stage they'll never use. A used Audible Illusions model 3A would have been a better choice if you do not object to owning a tube pre-amp. Not only is it superior to the MF as a p... | |
| Best Beethoven Symphonies? Karajan? I would also agree and own two copies, one of which I would be willing to sell. Contact me if interested ..........tswhitsel@aol.com | |
| MoFi versus new remasters What new remaster are you refering to? | |
| Stereophile "confirms" Moncrieff's SACD comments ? I have never owned anything but redbook CDs and have stayed away from SACD because it is a limited and expensive format. Add to that the fact that its future, or any new digital format for that matter, is questionable. I held out a good 10 years a... | |
| EAR 834P vs Plinius Jarrah anyone compare the two? I own an 834P, which I use with a 1mV Grado Reference on a Well Tempered Reference table. Prior to that I used a Van den Hul Grasshopper with an output of .6mV. With both I've used the moving coil stage and this preamp is very quiet. Prior to the ... | |
| Classe Owner CA-300, 301, 400, 401 You should be giving Classe a call for a question like that. | |
| Maggies damaged in transit questions In your case the dealer should be going out of their way to fix your problem. The obvious solution would be to refund your money and the dealer takes care of the claim. However, if you had purchased them from a private individual this would not be... |