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| Watts! How many do we need? Two Futtermans at 135 watts each. Altecs are 101 db efficiency, 16 ohms. The can play twice as loud as I could ever tolerate. see theaudioatticvinylsundays.com | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? I’ve been collecting since I was 11, in 1965. I have 6,000 LPs. its all I can do to find time to listen to them, never mind streaming. | |
| Would you move to a bigger house if you could just to have a better listening room ? @fleschler My room is far simpler but accomplishes what rooms many times their cost do. The walls are 6” deep, the ceiling 14”, filled with rock wool, and covered with fire resistant burlap. The rock wool is there for the thermal barrier, the a... | |
| How Long Should a First Watt SIT3 Last ? I have two Futterman OTL3s with 10 tubes each. I have a Beard P505 preamp. with 9 tubes. I have been using them for 39 years. I have a Pro-ject tube box D2 with 2 tubes. 39 days. Jon Specter keeps them going. The Futtermans were dicey for t... | |
| Would you move to a bigger house if you could just to have a better listening room ? I moved to a smaller house and got a dedicated listening room. theaudioatticvinylsundays.com | |
| Are your speakers losing air? I eliminated my center channel problem decades ago. I got rid of the center channel. Simplicity. I know that’s probably not the answer you were looking for. 😬 | |
| Your Most Prominent Audio Component There may be little variability in the bio-electrical-chemistry of the brain, but there is tremendous variability in the discipline of listening. Thats one reason why why one cartridge can sound genuinely great to 100 people but can sound just as ... | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? @phusis Well said. 👍 | |
| Futterman. Jump in? Or, not so fast... I really don’t understand why @atmasphere seems to start out with anything he has to say about Futtermans by trashing NYAL. Or is he not? Is it me? It sounds that way. I have been planning on writing a short - or maybe not so short - memoir of my... | |
| For city apartment dweller audiophiles. Have you ever had neighbors banging on your walls? Uhm, yeah, sure! Decades ago, I had a sociopathic neighbor who got angry with our Seven Days Magazine neighbors downstairs from us whose staff worked at all hours of the morning to meet publishing deadlines. One night, they are at it again, he g... | |
| Listening Room @audition__audio - Two things about me: A ) I’m a cheap rat bastard. I find the cheapest way to get results worth 5 to 100 times or more than what I spent. And B ) I’m lazy. Well not really lazy, I just want to get the results I want as quickly,... | |
| Listening Room @gents lol you are the comedian today, aren’t you? I am a cheap rat bastard: over 55 years, I have spent as little as possible to get as maximum as possible performance out of my gear. It’s come out to $850 per year on average over that time, ... | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? @noromance 👍 | |
| When Was The Audio Golden Age? My system is as follows: 1980s / 1990s / 2020s - Cartridge: Benz Micro, Koetsu Black, Grado 78, Koetsu Rosewood Signature, Koetsu Onyx, Koetsu Leopard 1980s / 2010s - Tonearm: Sumiko MMT, Jelco SA-750EB 1980s - Table: VPI HW MK IV with SAM 202... | |
| Listening Room From the "about" page on my website: "Vinyl Sundays" is a music appreciation concept. It was first launched as a public venture as "Classic Album Sundays" by Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy in London in 2010 and has spread to cities in Europe, Australia a... |