honest1
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| Is Martin Logan goin to Big Box stores? I have a friend who's husband is a best buy manager, and he tells me high end is coming to Best Buy. I forget which brands, but they were some of the big, established high-end approved brands. What I think that means is that a lot of high end manu... | |
| Goldman Audio....Audio Done Right I visited John once a few years ago, invetigating a pair of used Virgos he had. I didn't buy them, but he seemed like a decent guy. At that time, he was demoing stuff in a long narrow living room. I think he was working on a sound room in his base... | |
| Anybody heard the DeVore Videlity Gibbon Super 8? I heard them at one of the Las Vegas shows last year. The thing that really stood out in my mind was the speakers' extension at the extremes of the audio spectrum. It reminded me a bit of some of the very best car audio systems I've heard - not th... | |
| Interaction between Sub XO and Amp? If your preaqmp has 2 oputputs, run one to the fulrange amp and the other to the sub. That way, there is no risk to the full range signal. This of course, assumes your satellites can handle full range sound well. This will work best if your preamp... | |
| Behringer SRC 2496 DAC I haven't tried the DAC, but own the DEQ2496, and find it very transparent. Set flat, I find I have to listen fairly closely to tell if it is in the system or not, even tho I have a fairly high resoution system (GNSC modded Wadia 850, Atmasphere M... | |
| help, fried a resistor You need to match the wattage as well as the resistance and tolerance. There is a big differnece between a 1/8 watt 5.1 ohm resistor and a 5 watt 5.1 ohm resistor. While any resistor that is of the same ersistance, wattage, and to a lesser degree,... | |
| Mint Condition, Doesn't Anyone Know What It Means I laugh when I see "minty", too. I think this term has been borrowed from coin collectors. When they say a coin is in mint condition, they mean it quite literally, as if it just came from the mint that made it (as alluded to above). The other grad... | |
| Why not just unplug it? I think you may be confusing the display with the digital clock (?). A digital device won't run without a clock. Did you have another clock in there, or did you just unplug your display? | |
| A brutal review of the Wilson Maxx You mean a brutal review of the reviews of the Wilson Maxx. I'm not sure he even listened to the speakers much, since he only gives 2 sentences about his listening impressions, without any info regarding the circumstances under which these opinion... | |
| Best Moments in Audio; the "System Switch" My best moment was one of my first, picking out my first system. I didn't really like any speakers I heard, until I heard the Spica TC50s. It was instantly obvious that they were WAY better than anything else I had heard short of Apogees. The sale... | |
| Speakers for 80s rock? Something fat in the bass. Many 80s discs seem to be anemic in the bass - I'm thinking of Blondie, Cheap Trick, Poison in particular; I think htere are others, but I can't remember specifics. I heard they were engineered to sound their best on a p... | |
| BEST LOW VOLUME FULL RANGE SPEAKERS? Audio Physic Virgo IIs. Very detailed at low volume, bass is a bit rich, which will help a bit with loudness at low volumes. Also, consider speakers with rearward firing woofers, like Linn Espek or Verity Audio. By varying the distance from the wa... | |
| speaker with good low level detail Audio Physic Spark II might do the trick. A tiny bookshelf speaker that came close to the fabled Virgo II in sound, just less bass. Excels at low level detail, very natural sounding, and dynamic. Can always adda sub later if you feel the need. | |
| Think I'm going to try tubes... You might also consider the JJ828. They can be had here for not too much $$$ (relatively speaking), and are very fast and dynamic. They run a quad of KT88s per side, and have a volume control, 5 inputs, and a remote control, so you don't need a pr... | |
| Manly Steelhead - any downside?? Money is an issue if you don't have it, even if it is the best. Otherwise, we'd all be driving Bentleys. $10K is a lot of money for a preamp, no matter how you slice it. It may very well be worth it if you have the money, but few have the money, e... |