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| Anyone hear the Caravelle speaker and not like it? This makes me smile. A couple of years ago the well-known company that makes my own speakers introduced a new model which quickly received several positive press reviews. The manufacturer is a firm widely recognized for steadfastly keeping the pri... | |
| Moving from mid-fi to hi-fi -- Imaging questions Tweeters to the inside might be indicated if the speakers are relatively far apart, if the imaging seems too wide to you. In any case, sitting twice as far away as the speakers are far apart from each other will result in the opposite problem, not... | |
| Moving from mid-fi to hi-fi -- Imaging questions Sean: Is the speaker placement rule about maintaining different spacing from sidewalls and frontwall (and floor for that matter) really very relevent to line-source dipoles, which radiate at a range of distances from the floor and have nulls to th... | |
| retube VTL amp VTL has fitted SED KT-88's to new amps on special request (it is a drop-in substitute for this application and will bias normally without modification, unlike the KT-90 according to VTL). From to what they related to me, they like this tube as muc... | |
| The quest for power Another one to consider is the McCormack DNA-125 - quite capable of filling a room the size of yours with all the sound that it, you, and your speakers can likely take, and of high musical quality, for around $1,700.USD new.Top strengths include d... | |
| Moving from mid-fi to hi-fi -- Imaging questions Your current listening triangle by conventional standards is overly broad (speakers, or at least tweeters, 11' apart, you only 8' away from a tweeter, which means you're even closer to the hypotenuse). This will tend to work against natural perspe... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone ROTFLOL SW :-) | |
| Anyone hear the Caravelle speaker and not like it? Onhwy61: Your nickel's in the mail ;^) | |
| retube VTL amp Piezo: Just as I opined above (and it is only my opinion, folks) concerning retailers who charge a premium for additional burn-in and testing/matching beyond what is done at the tube factory itself (obviously speaking only of new production tubes ... | |
| Tweaks That Don't Work I replaced my nearly 50-year-old wall outlet with a cryo'd Hubbell hospital-grade one (my entire system is powered off this one central plug) and tested it against another original outlet that was left as-is. Verdict: no audible differences I can ... | |
| Anyone hear the Caravelle speaker and not like it? Onhwy61: More proof that no good (or witty) post goes unpunished, eh? ;^) If this speaker is only half as great as some of its proponents are grim, they've really got a winner there! | |
| retube VTL amp I made a rather large omission when I forgot to point out that although the 12AT7 input tubes may not wear out in the electrical sense as quickly as the driver and power tubes do, they are subject to deterioration in the area of microphonics, a pr... | |
| retube VTL amp Purchasing tubesets from the amp manufacturer will generally mean overpaying, which can amount to a lot with amps having as many tubes as these.The SED 6550C is VTL's stock output tube for these amps and a fine choice, though I've also liked the r... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Time for a kickstart...The Dave Myers Effect - Greatest Racing Themes [Carole/GNP Crescendo stereo LP, mid-60's] Organ and fuzz guitar-driven hot rod instro's replete with overdubbed squealing tires and revving engines, as was the brief trend at t... | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone Pat, glad to hear your spirit is rallying (and that you're sleeping better!). I also just received some good news about my sick cousin I recently visited (the latest chemo is effecting a measure of remission at this time), so I think we're all fee... |