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| What do you sit on? The home theatre chairs available are worth looking into as they are built for long term use, support and adjustability - a bad back can be assuaged by a half hour spent in a reclined position.My speakers require rather anal set up using a laser s... | |
| Putting weights on speakers? Hmm...my speakers weight more than 400 lbs. each. I think adding weight would just turn my spikes into nails that I'd never get out..... | |
| What are the sexiest components ever made? Quad ESL 57s - and they are theft proof as well unless you are unlucky enough to be burgled by the radiant heater thief. | |
| Ever feel like a "low dollar" customer that your dealer doesn't think worth their time? The ways in which dealers and salesmen turn people off aren’t limited to monetary issues.I’ve gone into serious stores and pretty much without me asking anything, a salesman has decided that I wanted to hear his theories of audio purity to the poi... | |
| Cool it! I have always preferred Class A amps with properly designed heat sinks that cool sufficiently without and added fans (which might fail, possibly cooking your amp).I have one system that runs two mono Class A amp, each of which puts out around 400 ... | |
| Low volume listening dynamics Relating speaker sensitivity to low volume detail seems incorrect to me. One of my systems has really excellent low volume realism, and the speakers are the lowest efficiency of any I own - 86 dB. | |
| Unbelievable Yamaha really made this statement:Glossy black piano finish provides improved signal-to-noise performance Makes sense. A grand piano sounds way better than an accordion - I'm sure it must be the paint. Bet it would be even further ahead if yo... | |
| How many NICE looking high end floor standing speaker are there at present Once you decide on how much you can spend on speakers, the question becomes one of how you want to have that divided between aesthetics and performance.Vandersteen is probably the king of functionality - spend all the money on performance and when... | |
| Are integrated amps technically better than separates? Not a good thing to put your sensitive preamp circuitry in close proximity to the power supplies for both the preamp and power amp.One of my preamps has a separate power supply that is connected to the rest of the circuitry by special umbilical ... | |
| Is room treatment a science? You can probably get a reasonable result that you are happy about by simple self administered methods or you can spend money up front and get an audio guy (they are normally involved with setting up home theatres) to come in and analyze the room f... | |
| Why do you guys pursue a flat frequency response when you buy a subwoofer? A lot of people - just about all car audio guys, and a dismaying number of fairly serious audiophiles, are impressed with the slam of big bass and aren't really being honest if they say they want accuracy (although the ones on the audiophile end w... | |
| Does anyone collect something else other than music. Yes to single malt (around 70 different ones) and like Caol Ila especially an 18 I tried recently but hadn't tasted in a long time.Also pre-resurrection Ardbegs (although I also enjoy Uigeadail when in the mood).Other collections include watches, ... | |
| Tube Preamp with Solid State Amp? While I have long been a fan of heavy Class A amps that never seem to run out of steam, I have actually gone all tube in my main system and really like it.I also had tube pre and SS power for a bit. Either can work but it is system dependent and t... | |
| have you ever bought stereo without listening first I have a lot of respect for Belles. I still own one of the first amps he made, the Belles A, and it has stood up very well over the years (aside from the habit of welding the switch contacts together at turn on). It will drive into 1 ohm loads.It ... | |
| Subwoofers - Front Firing or Down Firing - Which Sounds Best? I have one set that is downward firing (a pair of woofers mounted face to face (isobaric on a vertical axis, vented laterally) and one set that is forward firing and find no significant difference between them. It is more important that you have ... |