vicdamone
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| Bob Carver LLC has been purchased by Emotiva For what its worth, I purchased my VTA 180s from a dealer for $5600. who ordered them with my choice of a black finish and were shipped directly from the Kentucky manufacturing location.It was clear to me prior to this purchase that Bob Carver was... | |
| Manufacturer Repairs? What is a reasonable time? Over 5 months for a popular tube preamplifier. The scope of work was agreed to and the parts needed were confirmed in stock and available for the work. I was quoted a two week turnaround. Even though I brought up their notorious reputation for lon... | |
| Need suggestions replacing my receiver The HDMI failure is huge and may not be worth the repair cost. It seems your main sonic complaint is dynamics. After you decide whether to go with separates or a new receiver my first thought would be to ad a subwoofer. A sub would take a great de... | |
| Do you play an instrument? Helps in speaker eval? With most acoustical instruments the player has a different acoustical perspective than a typical microphone setup or standing a few feet in front of the instrument.After I've done a mic setup with a decent engineer my raw Bass track can sound ama... | |
| Bob Carver LLC has been purchased by Emotiva Buf, retail prices have come down but some dealers have been doing that all along. There is a possibility that the pre emotiva products will have greater value. | |
| Having trouble with sound deadening For $50 you should try the Auralex subwoofer platform. | |
| NCore vs. Ice -- single or separate cases Tony, clearly your budget seems to be driving your choice for a new amplifier. I would only suggest whatever you choose give it 200 hours or more before you do any critical listening. Don't sell your current amplifier just in case things don't wor... | |
| NCore vs. Ice -- single or separate cases What speakers will you be using and whats your room like? Their load and quality could have some bearing on the suggestions given. | |
| Avalon Eidolon Diamond vs Revel Salon 2 Chuck+1, as I see it the most help that can be given a query such as this is to give ones direct in home experience, with a clear description of ones system and in the case os speakers, the room. We can appreciate the intensions of those who profe... | |
| Need advice on building an A/V system Regarding your speaker choice. After setting up a few HT systems for myself and seven others for friends and neighbors I've become adamant about HDMI 7.1 using matched speakers regardless of quality. An exception would be for the center speaker on... | |
| NCore vs. Ice -- single or separate cases Charles 1, my amplifier history begins with a pair of Marantz 8Bs then an MFA, a few solid state, and more than a few switching amplifiers.I enjoyed the switching amplifiers ability to play loud without the congestion and fatigue associated with t... | |
| Avalon Eidolon Diamond vs Revel Salon 2 If there's a problem with Avalon speakers its the need to have someone who actually knows what they should sound like properly locate them. I heard a pair of Eidolons set up correctly only once years ago at dB Audio's second location on Shattuck A... | |
| Let's talk SUBS Bob Reynolds, is that your nice comment in the June 2013 issue of Stereophile?Baranowski, its important to do due diligence as to what subwoofer, pre/pros, and stand alone EQ manufactures actually offer in the way of EQ or room correction. I have ... | |
| NCore vs. Ice -- single or separate cases Depending on the Euro the Hypex NCore 400 kits maybe the least expensive introduction to switching amplifiers, depending you don't go nuts on case work.Compared to buying used, nCore technology is quite new. Without actual experience with ICE kits... | |
| Sub best at high crossover? Dbphd, that's my experience. Even if a speaker system actually measures reasonable output at 25Hz the room usually requires gain in that region. I've gone round and round with some folks on Bass forums regarding their electric Bass cabinets which ... |