Elizabeth,
Nice to see your name again along with some of the other long time posters. Reubent and I live in the same city and have shared some listening sessions with a local "audiophile" group. I didn't quite fit in, I like guitar anthems , psychedelia, and just plain rock. They liked "good" recordings and classical. Reubent turned me on to DaDa who is just not "Disnee" Land.
I haven't been on the Agon forums for a long time. I read the pertinent forums and sought advice when learning to set up a system (Shadorne was very helpful to my acoustics learning curve as were others). Later, I got the information needed from the Planar Asylum to convert to an active crossover system for my Magnepan's. It was my first attempt at serious tweaking and I was very satisfied with the result and quit reading and just listened (and drank too much) for a long time. (BTW - I bought the used crossover and extra amp thru Agon.)
Then I put a fifty inch Plasma between the speakers and totally screwed up the sound stage. But I knew what the problem was, because of the advice and postings here and on the Planar Asylum. And I think I know the solution, mount it on the back wall. Anyway, point is, the forums are useful and sometimes entertaining. And yes it's easy to get wrapped up in the next great "find" to purchase, luckily I've been happy enough to avoid most of it. Although the power switch on one of the out of production amps failed so I'm back to looking for a used replacement if even just for parts. I did have a backup integrated that I could convert to a power amp and still have something to listen to.
OK, confession, my son was visiting and I played a CD that he couldn't believe I would own or even listen to. So I cranked it up to 0. The amps over heated and shut down. I am seriously looking for some more powerful amps. Oh well, sometimes you can't resist.
Well wishes, Jim Still
Nice to see your name again along with some of the other long time posters. Reubent and I live in the same city and have shared some listening sessions with a local "audiophile" group. I didn't quite fit in, I like guitar anthems , psychedelia, and just plain rock. They liked "good" recordings and classical. Reubent turned me on to DaDa who is just not "Disnee" Land.
I haven't been on the Agon forums for a long time. I read the pertinent forums and sought advice when learning to set up a system (Shadorne was very helpful to my acoustics learning curve as were others). Later, I got the information needed from the Planar Asylum to convert to an active crossover system for my Magnepan's. It was my first attempt at serious tweaking and I was very satisfied with the result and quit reading and just listened (and drank too much) for a long time. (BTW - I bought the used crossover and extra amp thru Agon.)
Then I put a fifty inch Plasma between the speakers and totally screwed up the sound stage. But I knew what the problem was, because of the advice and postings here and on the Planar Asylum. And I think I know the solution, mount it on the back wall. Anyway, point is, the forums are useful and sometimes entertaining. And yes it's easy to get wrapped up in the next great "find" to purchase, luckily I've been happy enough to avoid most of it. Although the power switch on one of the out of production amps failed so I'm back to looking for a used replacement if even just for parts. I did have a backup integrated that I could convert to a power amp and still have something to listen to.
OK, confession, my son was visiting and I played a CD that he couldn't believe I would own or even listen to. So I cranked it up to 0. The amps over heated and shut down. I am seriously looking for some more powerful amps. Oh well, sometimes you can't resist.
Well wishes, Jim Still