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| Is it bad to stack your equipment If you're able to do easy woodwork consider building a diy Salamander clone rack. They easy to build if you're handy at all. The beauty though is that you can design it anyway you need and the shelves are always adjustable as equipment changes. Al... | |
| Subwoofer : Front Or Down Firing For Musicality ? Forgot to add that both my brother and friend ended up buying Vmps subs. Those M&K's are very good deals imo also. They're musical and for 5-600 bucks a bargain. Let everyone know your budget and no doubt more good recommendations can follow. | |
| Subwoofer : Front Or Down Firing For Musicality ? Don't worry about which way it fires. I don't know what your budget is but I'd get the best single sub I could first and save for the second. That's what I'm doing now. Those little Velodyne's can easily be outperformed by other subs for the same ... | |
| Von Schweikert VR4SR Loudspeaker I'd have to say a more powerful amp is going to be needed if you want much volume and dynamic capability at all. With only 24 set watts for those you should at least get a SS bass amp and maybe bi amp them. | |
| How Old is Old when considering an Amp? Krell, Bry Personally I'd be wary of the Krell that old as the caps should probably be replaced. The Krell's run very hot. A newer one or a Classe, Bryston or Plinius are all good. You can get a Classe 201 for under 2k and a Bryston 4BST for around 1200. Bot... | |
| custom built rack's. You can also build a Salamander clone any way you want. These are extremely strong. You just need some threaded rod @ 3/4". For wood on mine I used a sheet of finish plywood. Cut it into four 2'x4' pieces and bolted it together. This is a double w... | |
| Best undiscovered speakers on the market today ? I recently became a dealer for Vmps so I could get myself a pair of RM 40's. This is actually my third pair of their speakers in the last decade. Little known but great sound per dollar. Vmps has a forum at audiocircle.I've not heard Rick's speake... | |
| Audio Research LS3 owners.... I believe the later model LS3 can be had with a remote. The balanced model sounds like it's uneeded for your case. As far as sound quality it may be very close. The ARC I think should be better but that old Adcom was pretty darn good. The service ... | |
| BI-AMP OR NOT? Ditto ditto ditto! | |
| Class D Amp For 'Stats? The Innersound ESL amps were designed to drive the capacitive load of electrostatics. They will do so while sounding outstanding and without strain. An electrostatic speaker is a capacitive load which is very difficult for most amps. | |
| Isoclean Fuse Never use a fuse of a higher rating than specified. This is a recipe for disaster. Those people should have not even offered you a higher rating as I seriously doubt they'll pay for the repairs on your amp because the fuse rating had been too high... | |
| New to the Hobby what would you do next? The first thing to do is to learn the most important tweak of all: Speaker Position. This is free and can make a very large difference in the sound of your system, more than an amp, preamp or cd player usually. Try different distances from sidewal... | |
| Dedicated Circuits/Isolated Grounds I'm not an electrician but asked a similar question. You DO NOT want to run two separate grounds. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will chime in. I think it's even illegal or against code. What you have in mind may be overkill but putting in ... | |
| DAC for multiple CD players? It sounds like your wife likes the multi disc player. I use an inexpensive Sony DVD changer with a Bel Canto DAC 1.1 and am very satisfied. John Stronczer of Bel Canto even recommends using his dacs with a dvd player. You could also just use separ... | |
| Surround Sound Recommendation I know the Polk line can sound very good for the money and they even go on sale. |