eldartford
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| wall- mounting surrounds I think that wall mounting really limits what you can expect out of the rear channels, however if you insist...1. Use some decorative rope to make a sling to hold the speaker. (This won't make any holes in the speakers).2. Find a wall stud, and sc... | |
| OK to play 78s with elliptical stylus? Plato...Not to rain on your parade, but what are you doing for equalization? | |
| Best SACD/CD player I can get for $5k new or used Spend $1000 on a Denon 2900. Spend the other $4000 on top quality discs. | |
| Is my dealer lying to me? Thefalls1117...That Mission 7000 CD player was really good, especially when you consider that its D/A were 14 bits, oversampled to get 16. Mine finally developed mechanical problems and was given a decent burial.The dealer probably never heard the... | |
| OK to play 78s with elliptical stylus? Plato...For really authentic sound, get yourself one of those piezioelectric crystal pickups that used to sell for about $3.50, with genuine osmium stylus. In fact, going further back, there used to be pickups that used triangular cross section wo... | |
| Seeking full range single driver speaker recs Sean...Check out E-Speakers website for Manger info. My concern would be about life expectancy of these drivers. They might work well for a few hours between breakin and wearout. | |
| OK to play 78s with elliptical stylus? Plato...It's not the shape of the stylus but its size that will degrade the 78's. The stylus tip diameter was considerably larger for 78's, and a LP stylus will scrape along the bottom of the groove instead of riding on the two sides. Shure makes ... | |
| Dynaco ST-70 and Magneplanar 1.6QR Andersd...David says that the Dynaco st-70 uses a tube type 7199, not the more common 12AX7 which I mentioned. I assume he is correct. Whatever the proper tube is, my point is that you should make sure you have the right kind plugged in. Many smal... | |
| Magnepan MMG Magneplanar speakers accept bananna plugs, but they have a little set screw which clamps the bananna plug in place. Actually, the best way to make the connection is to put the bare speaker wire (with no termination) into the speaker terminal, and ... | |
| CDP volume, what's best, analogue or digital? Ed_sawyer...On further thought...a one bit shift (multiply by 1/2) would be a 6 dB volume reduction, and I don't think that digital volume controls are that coarse. The volume control on my Rotel 1066 SS processor is probably digital, and it goes ... | |
| Dynaco ST-70 and Magneplanar 1.6QR If you can get the 5503 for less than a 5502, do it. The amp doesn't mind having one channel unused. Also, if you ever get into multichannel sound, the 3 channels will be useful.The 555 was very well regarded when it came out, but that's a long ti... | |
| Stacked MMG I called Magnepan. The woman I spoke with may not have understood what I was asking about, or why it was of interest, but the idea of stacking MMGs is not on their list of good ideas. They would rather sell their larger models. (But I may do it an... | |
| Dynaco ST-70 and Magneplanar 1.6QR Andersd...My amp is the GFA-5503, which is the three-channel version of the GFA-5502 that you probably want. These amps are rated at 200 watts into 8 ohms, and 350 watts into 4 ohms (which is what the MG 1.6 are). I paid only $875 for my amp which... | |
| CDP volume, what's best, analogue or digital? Ed_sawyer...Thanks for the info. Dropping the LSB is how you multiply by 1/2, in context of my comment. For further gain reduction I suppose they do more shifts (dropping more bits). Perhaps they figure that as the volume level goes down you don't... | |
| 2+2+2 Multichannel Unsound...For matrix multichannel, very few recordings work well, and you probably never heard them. It's easy for me to understand your skepticism. Also, note my comment that it's a lot easier (and better) to get three channels out of two than fo... |