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Speakers costing range of 2500-3500 per pair
helomech..I was referring to organic materials only. Not synthetic like carbon fiber which is made up of polyacrylonitrile and rayon. Very bad material for the environment. Cannot be recycled and it winds up in land fills. China is currently devel... 
Speakers costing range of 2500-3500 per pair
Nope. You need to dump the Denon. The Focal and Sierra are designed to handle major amplification. The Denon does not have the power reserve necessary to bring the Focal and Sierra to their best performance level. Dealers are like politicians, the... 
Eric Clapton reveals this week of his declining health
irish_tim - Lol.. Love Ian Anderson. Saw him twice. Gotta tell you this. The funniest moment I ever experienced at a concert to date was during the second time I saw Jethro Tull at the Seattle Center Coliseum. Ian just started into a magnificent f... 
Speakers costing range of 2500-3500 per pair
helomech..you are off the mark. The report you refer to is from 1977. I looked at the two tables listing woods and composites and bamboo is nowhere to be found. Bamboo plywood is what I'm referring to is stronger than steel. Bamboo has a tensile s... 
Speakers costing range of 2500-3500 per pair
Also, the speaker manufacturer cost to make a speaker, average formula is four to one of the factory wholesale cost. The retail wholesale cost for a $10K speaker is $6K. The total manufacturer cost to make that $10K  speaker including packaging an... 
Speakers costing range of 2500-3500 per pair
Avoid retailers at all cost who troll around threads trying to hard sell you to lure you into their stores. Having owned a retail audio business just for two years, and a authorized Nuforce dealer at the time, here is how bracket wholesale buying ... 
Speakers costing range of 2500-3500 per pair
More than likely, Vandersteen is using "ghost writers" to answer your technical questions online. I mentioned in a recent thread I started under amps/preamps on the new Belles Virtuoso integrated of the very bad experience I had with Richard Vande... 
Speakers costing range of 2500-3500 per pair
I'll take the Ascend Acoustics Sierra Towers over Vandersteens any day of the week. In order to survive, Richard had to take on outside engineers to keep his company afloat during the past twenty years. Richard is not a acoustical engineer nor had... 
Speakers costing range of 2500-3500 per pair
nitrobob..To bad you sold your Ascend Acoustics. You were using the wrong amplifier. The speaker is known for its killer bass and works best with gobs of power. You were using a Marantz 7500, a budget surround receiver with not enough power reserv... 
Belles Greatest Integrated ever! The Virtuoso
 This should work. (maybe)                      www.ifi-audio.com 
Belles Greatest Integrated ever! The Virtuoso
Link does not work. Try this one...                    www.ifi-audio.co.uk 
Belles Greatest Integrated ever! The Virtuoso
2chfreak - Heres another gem I'll throw atcha. One of the very best tube buffers under $1K on the planet. Hand made in London. Its a portable box unit you can hold in your hand with inputs and outputs with a single NOS GE 5670 tube that has a life... 
Belles Greatest Integrated ever! The Virtuoso
For those in Great Britain reading this thread discovering Belles for the first time, here is the address of the Belles Distributor in England, Nu Nu Distribution LTD.     Here ya go mates...                                      www.nunudistributi... 
Greatest Rock Drummers
Whats really a gas is that the average cost of a ticket at Eagles back then to see all those great drummer's and bands was $3.75The Eagles tour last year cost $200.00 a ticket. What a screw job. Their sitting on several hundred million dollars cas... 
Greatest Rock Drummers
Finally remembered the two other bands I saw at the Coliseum. John Hiseman and his group Colesseum, and The Soft Machine. Quit going to the Coliseum shows since the Seattle Police were doing pat searches looking for drugs, having to take off your ...