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| New D'Agostino Monoblocks...$250,000 Sounds like just the amp you need when you buy those 70 dB efficient speakers you've been wanting.... | |
| price of Oppo players threw the roof Never understood people with no concept of free market economy. There is no moral obligation on the part of a seller to be a nice guy and sell for less than the going price for any item - his goal is to get as much as the market will bear, end of... | |
| Surprised Good bass is possible at acceptable cost if you look to heritage speakers.I still use some late 1980s Vandersteen 4As in one of my rooms. They were built in small numbers at much higher price in between filling all the orders for the 2Cs and they ... | |
| Surprised Integration is always at least a possible issue with subs. Many are very flexible and easy to integrate like the REL, Vandersteen, and Hsu, but many are not.Most subs aren't for really low bass, they are for bass from about 60 Hz and down and I've... | |
| RIP Dave Wilson Put on a well recorded organ LP from Wilson, played through my Wilson speakers and will dig out some more of his LPs, which I've been neglecting for too long. | |
| How much power can a pair of Klipsch La Scalas take ? Not clear on exactly what you are doing. You are running another pair of speakers (Chorus) along with the Klipsch? If so, why? | |
| How To Field Questions About Your Audiophile Lifestyle... Play them a solo piano or violin recording - they will either marvel at how realistic it is or ask how loud and how much bass the system has and you'll know whether to dump them immediately or spend more time on them.I had one guy swearing that hi... | |
| RECORDS THAT HAVE IMPRESSED PEOPLE SO MUCH THEY BOUGHT MY STEREO I'll second Nightfly - always thought Becker was the anal retentive one that instigated so many repeat takes in the studio on Steely Dan recordings, but maybe it was Fagen, based on the quality of this album. | |
| Vandersteen Sub woofers v Rythmik Subs I have used the 2W quite successfully to fill in what smaller monitor main speakers lack in the low bass - still own one, though not currently in any of my systems.I don't need a sub for my main system (20Hz capability) but nonetheless added a cou... | |
| Does anyone leave their amp and preamp on all the time? Love the Bedini amp!I can't leave my Class A amps on all the time. They draw around 400 watts each just sitting there when not converting any of it to sound and they heat the room up noticeably by the end of a listening session.They do not take lo... | |
| Bi-Amping Which amp for highs and which for lows? Unlikely they have the identical gain, so padding one down would be necessary. You could use a high quality capacitor in the high input to roll off the bass, and use a volume control of some sort in the bass input to match the output. | |
| Switching a single set of speakers between two amps I have also looked for a simple convenient solution to this question. At present I have my speakers operated either by my hifi front end (all tube) or by an AV system with AV preamp and solid state power amp.Not too onerous to switch as both power... | |
| Omega single driver speakers There are advantages and disadvantages to coincident speakers - basically locating your tweeter in the middle of your bass driver. It certainly isn't a new idea - Tannoy did it and called it 'dual-concentric' many years ago (1940s).The only way y... | |
| Streamer dbpoweramp is great.I use Sonos for wireless connection with a server (you can do it to just a single computer if you want) but there are other software packages out there.I think you will find that you will want to rip a lot more than your own CD... | |
| DIY High pass filters for Vandersteen Model 5A Carbon's? Vandersteen has used first order crossovers consisting of one or two high quality capacitors, often soldered to RCA jacks and shrink wrapped. They should still have these available. You need to tell them the power amp you will use to drive the to... |