johnk
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| The most fun you can have in audio is DIYing your own speakers 10x is very off. Pricing for retail goes more like this manufacturer gets 30-40% over total costs retailer sells for about 33% over what he paid manufacturer. Still some like magico are pricing at what the market will bare.But on average if it cos... | |
| Listening Height Adjustment -- Is This Why Two People Don't Hear the Same? { The whole point of this thread is that the height of each listener’s ears needs to be optimized to the position of the speakers, and that differences in listener torso dimensions need to be taken into account}. Depends on radiation pattern o... | |
| Stephens Trusonic 120CX. Unsure what cabinet brand is/original? Looks like DIY cabinets most of these drivers ended up in such. | |
| Speakers can be big AND easy to drive My RCAs are 16 ohm 106db 1 watt 2 meter | |
| Do Bigger Speakers Mean a Bigger Window? Vintage items that become desired collectables usually still have some use. The most desirable loudspeakers of the past usually have no modern equivalents the desire to own has fueled a great amount of reproductions. What one considers collectable... | |
| Do Bigger Speakers Mean a Bigger Window? I pulled out a few of my monitors this weekend morel ziv 2 and a pair of high end dynaudios. While they do sound fine why I keep them arround they do not even get close to the natural realistic sound of my much larger loudspeakers. Even when I use... | |
| Like the new look to audiogon ? I am going to do my shopping on the many other alternatives to agon maybe in a few weeks I will check back to see what's left of this site. | |
| Best 845 SET mono amps? 1930s RCA MI | |
| Who said “ flat freq response “ is the best? In a room no system is measuring flat you have to go to heroic efforts to even get close. Aiming for flat from a design perspective is so end user has a known base to work from still many designs do not aim for flat response adding more variables ... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? I never heard any monitor or slim floorstander ever yield proper scale to musical play back or proper dynamics.I have only heard large loudspeakers approach realistic scale and dynamic range and some of those loudspeakers are horn based.I can se... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? I enjoy all types of loudspeaker all have uses all one can make synergistic systems out of. Horns have strengths weakness like all things to ignore strengths and only focus on weak points is self defeating with a system made of multiple devices pl... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? Open your mind and ears and give a horn system a unbiased extended listen.. | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? Its all about achieving system synergy active passive buffer all can be used in proper system and can achieve synergy but I would say passive types take more thought and also have more chance of disrupting synergy. At this time I have a art audio ... | |
| Awesome customer service from Simply Speakers Did you buy multiple units? think min for discounts 10. Are you a retailer or manufacturer? If not demanding a discount because you think they pushed a tweeter pair on you is good reason to hang up on you. Most likely tweeters suggest wer... | |
| Horn based loudspeakers why the controversy? I design loudspeakers not just horns. I also collect restore manufacturer loudspeakers not just horn based. I do have a nice pair of Dynaudios I pulled out of my loudspeaker collection and just finished listening to for a few days in my main syst... |