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| Finally Learned: Subs serve much larger role than adding more low bass My main speakers don't benefit as much from subs as they are good to 20 Hz on their own. Obviously the limitation there is that you are locked into the manufacturers set up as the low bass isn't independently adjustable as it is with separate subs... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV12 vs. Audible Illusions Modulus 3a I like the Modulus 3 and would put it a bit ahead of the PV12 (an PV5). but it isn't up to my main system preamp, a CJ Premier 14. | |
| Is advice from a constant upgrader to be avoided @surfcat "The search for betterment is the passion of the intelligent and curious mind. It is not a disease and not a symptom of a disease. The inability to understand that coupled with the need to ridicule it is, however, a symptom of retardatio... | |
| Best Phono You've Heard Under $2200 If you shop for used gear in good condition you can do pretty well I paid around $2K Can for my Venfetta SCP-2D (but it took several years of hunting to find one) and similar prices for my CJ Premier 15. | |
| Is advice from a constant upgrader to be avoided There is a subset of this hobby that suffers from auiophilia nervosa - never satisfied with a current component, always searching for the grail amplifier or speaker. Best not to embark on that journey with them. | |
| Great song to test bass Stanley Clarke, East River Drive is a good bass test CD | |
| If a " system " cannot do this, I move on........ With obvious bass issues, I have to say that many elctrostatic speakers rival or supass many horns systems in realistic sound reproduction. I acknowledge that mating a sufficiently good subwoofer with an eletrostat can be problematic. | |
| Wilson not delivering speakers as scheduled On the other hand, maybe by the time your speakers arrive they will be the upgraded Mk 2 version instead of th originals you ordered..... | |
| Tube Amp, Preamp upgrades -- what did you do that improved your units? Beware making changes in well designed gear. I have seen both John Curl and David Berning deplore such 'improvements, saying that if they had wanted more expensive components in a given circuit they would have put them there - they designed for s... | |
| A Record Collection/Moral Conundrum - What Would You Do? Records? What records? Oh those - I threw them out years ago when you failed to come and get them...... | |
| How do you listen? No layman has much of an idea of just how loudly musical performances are in a given acoustic space. They almost always under or over estimate.I was surprised when I took a sound level meter (there is an inexpensive one called SPL Meter available... | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? Trying to accomplish a really decent sounding system in a limited space like the interior of a car is a mug's game. You can get close for a large amount of money, but why bother?A car is something that you drive home to listen to your sound system... | |
| Combining home theater with two channel I prefer two separate systems. The only commonality between my AV and audio systems are the main speakers,When I want to switch from one to the other, I just take the speaker wires out of one amp and insert them in the other - I have a tube audio... | |
| Solid state amp to go with tube preamp; used ok; budget: $3k max A couple of older solid state amps that sound quite good.Bryston 2BRobertson 4010 | |
| The value of embellishment? Montalban was a paid flack - he took money to mispronounce 'Cordoba' for Chrysler ads and touted 'fine Corinthian leather' which didn't in fact exist.Hmm - I wonder if VPI uses Corinthian leather because it sounds better.....But hey - it opens the... |