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| My Audio Research experience "Incidentally, and not to be nasty, I nonetheless got a chuckle at the mention of Marantz who nearly went out of business and was just purchased by Sound United, the company who owns and sells Polk and Definitive Technology, two speaker brands unl... | |
| My Audio Research experience Yes Mr. Carver has been an innovative designer of equipment used in Music Reproduction Systems and he has founded and sold one company after another while making millions of dollars in the process which is the free market at work and while the fre... | |
| Thrift store tune treat for half-buck + tax "If you don’t know , you don’t know . The world is big but the best is small and has a small audience .Why eat at McDonald's when you can go to a 4 star joint for same price ."This very obvious but very true and often overlooked by those who think... | |
| My Audio Research experience "That said, our ampifiers have a minimum of a ten year warranty INCLUDING TUBES. Minimum? Well, as long as Bob and I live, no one will ever pay for a repair. "That is so funny! With all due respect to Bob Carver who as all know is an innovative en... | |
| Tri-Planar Vll "SE Upgrade" What is most likely it would appear from all that is written here is that the owner has either badly installed (aligned) tonearm or he has a defective tonearm but either way he can not tell the difference so everyone would agree I think that he ne... | |
| My Audio Research experience Audio Research Products are designed for use in sophisticated Music Reproduction Systems and they are to be used by sophisticated users or alternatively those users who have the means and the inclinations to employ the services of a Qualified Auth... | |
| Why do Harbeth P3ESRs sound different? You have purchased a used pair of speakers. Therefore there is no way to know what exactly it is that you have purchased. Perhaps the previous owner performed unsatisfactory repairs to the speakers or modified the crossover in such a way as to com... | |
| Bob Burwen imparts his knowledge " Coloration is a deviation from a desired response. "This is a very simplistic view because coloration can be caused by many things other than just a simple deviation from FR. For example we have THD which can be perceived in a music reproductio... | |
| PMC Fact 3 with hegel h160 or accuphase 350 You ask this question because you are not using properties to evaluate your music reproduction system. This has been proven in shootouts using properties to the many listeners who have heard Tru-Fi. You need to think of your music reproduction s... | |
| Speaker upgrade... " One thing to consider is that its hard to listen to speakers that are not time and phase correct like the speakers you have now."This is very clearly, it must be said, part of the problem when listeners do not use properties to evaluate music r... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters Again,with the kind permission of Bo, the group and the moderators kindly please allow me to expand a bit on TruFi, what it means for the world of music reproduction systems and how it will change the industry.Kindly please remember that I am not ... | |
| Wilson Audio Haters With your permission, if I may, please kindly allow me to elucidate these matters regarding Bo, who is a visionary and trailblazer in the world of hi-fi.How, you may ask, do I have anything to contribute to this detailed discussion? I am a client ... |