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| Speaker Spikes - Working Principle @tcotruvo - to further amplify your point (no pun intended), I originally had my Wilsons (which weight 400lbs each) directly on my carpeted floor (with thin pile carpet). I subsequently spiked them once I had their position optimised and the impro... | |
| Speaker Spikes - Working Principle @OP Perhaps you can put your postulated experiment into practice and report back. | |
| Tube Phonostage Causing Rumble and Noises Thanks Davetheoilguy. I thought from your post that the Frog was gone before the Esoteric arrived but of course the Esoteric arm is a different kettle of fish altogether. The Frog is a great cartridge - I owned one for ten years - replaced by a Cr... | |
| Tube Phonostage Causing Rumble and Noises @davetheoilguy - the Frog is relatively high compliance for a moving coil and favours arm's on the lower end of effective mass range, so if there is a problem, it's more likely to be in matching of the arm and cartridge than the cartridge per se. | |
| Speaker and amp advice needed @OP - that is quite a large room and definitely there is no problem using a pair of Amati's in it. I spent two days with a pair recently in a similarly sized room and they sounded absolutely fabulous. Obviously, you would benefit from a better amp... | |
| Speaker Spikes - Working Principle +1 on the last three posts. To wit, @OP, compressible materials like felt or paper will not work. In fact, even a spike into a wooden floor will not work without being placed on a footer as the spike will distort the wood over time and the speaker... | |
| Tube Phonostage Causing Rumble and Noises @OP You indicate that there is no rumble when the Aexthetix phono stage is played via your Apogee. It's not impossible that the sub is reproducing frequencies that are below the bandwidth of the Apogees. In terms of fault finding, you should borr... | |
| Speaker Spikes - Working Principle Before there was ever conjecture about spikes having anything to do with resonances, the purpose of spiking a speaker was simply to stop it rocking in reaction the motion of the drive units and to keep the speaker level. Since floors are rarely fl... | |
| Speakers - Your "Safest" Choice @OP - The suggestions for B&W, Sonus Faber, Wilson and Focal and Magico are all on the money. A pair of Wilson Sabrina Xs is in your budget range. Some people are put off by their diminutive size, but they sound bigger than they look. My per... | |
| What to do with a large collection @OP. This post is intended as a positive comment not a criticism. The real value of a music collection collection is in the listening pleasure derived it. Entertainment software of all kinds is a rapidly depreciating commodity in terms of resale v... | |
| Ultimate Turntable search...OMA K5 or ? @OP Even though in principle, you don't want belt drive, I would not rule out the Dohmann Helix One Mk 3. While not strictly on topic, regardless of the choice of TT, the choice of arm is going to be a pretty major factor too. | |
| Why do people like reel to reel players? I had an R2R machine in my studio but one thing that would have really bothered me for playback in a hi fi system is the noise tape makes banging off the reels as it spools from one to the other. And you do need 15ips for proper quality. Lastly, ... | |
| Anyone listen to Music on a FM tuner anymore? @jasonbourne71 - how do you turn it of if you are asleep? :)) On topic, my Revox B760 tuner died a couple of years ago so now I am using my Meridian 204. That's in my kitchen system. I also listen to a Meridian 101 with a pair of active M2s when ... | |
| Why "bookshelf" sspeakers? The term bookshelf speaker is now an anachronism in a hi-fi context. Even back in the day there were plenty of "bookshelf" speakers that were never designed to be used close to a wall -e.g. LS 3/5a's etc. | |
| Wilson Audio Duette / Custom Crossover Upgrade Well the beauty of that layout certainly won't do any harm to the way it sounds :)) |