jtgofish
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| $40.000 speaker advise. Check out my list Are $40,000 speakers really any better than a good pair of $15000 speakers?If you are going to spend this sort of money you probably need to look at active speakers like the SGR Octagons.At least these include amplification and crossovers specific... | |
| Are Horn Speakers good or bad or simply a complete joke? I love horns.I own Edgarhorns and built back loaded horns.They have a scale,richness and dynamic ease that is very musical.Where they fail though is phase coherency. Compared to point source,planar or a really well designed dynamic speakers they c... | |
| Midrange Better Than Harbeth or Spendor? The Ambience ribbons have a fantastically natural sounding midrange-with oodles of resolution and image precision too-and I am a "BBC sound" fan.I used Tangent RS4 and Rogers Export Monitors for years.In my opinion a good wide range ribbon is more... | |
| What speaker cables to buy You should try using solid core copper lighting cable first [NOT stranded] as it costs almost nothing and many people prefer it to expensive cables.It is essentialy neutral sounding whereas other cables are contrived to sound different-and people ... | |
| Are dome midrange better than cone designs? I have owned and built quite a few speakers which have used dome mids.In my opinion they are cpable of superb sound.They are generally less coloured and more natural sounding than even the best of cone midranges.They seem to be extremely hard to u... | |
| Bose 901...really I have owned all sorts of speakers and I hate to admit it,but the Bose 901s are certainly one of the better ones.From an audiophiles perspective they cannot be taken seriously but that does not mean they can't be immensely enjoyable.They certainly... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Kgtuner,The internal wire might be silver coated copper but it is definitely not solid silver.I believe this cable is used due to its excellent soldering performance.I once used a Glass Audio designed preamp that used solid silver internal cabling... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Opuss88,I think many people must trip up with cables that do not sound neutral.Such cables might sound good in one system but not another-and because they sounded good in that system the assumption that they will still sound good when you try a di... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Opus and Marril,I think you should feel perfectly at ease making the statements you have.Your experiences are clearly not typical though.So either there is something unusual going on with your systems' synergy or you hear differently to most peopl... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Halogen lights[or their transformers?] in my house can cause hums.Fortunately I only have them in an adjoining room and can turn them off.Any number of experts wil tell you this should not happen but it does. | |
| Transparency: What speakers have it in spades? I am yet to hear a transparent speaker.They all have a sonic signature-even with very good stats you still hear the mylar.Perhaps some full range ribbons come closest but transparency is never going to be possible when a fabric/material is being u... | |
| Warmest speaker? Horses for courses really.Their is nothing wrong with warm sounding speakers if you have a bright or cold sounding room.If anything bright speakers will cause fatigue before warm sounding ones.The bextrene coned speakers of the 70s were warm sound... | |
| The Best Amp for the Price of Dirt Creml, The A500 was reviewed in Hi Fi World December 2006.To quote-"Unlike hi fi amps the A500 suffers considerable crossover distortion even in the midband...whilst it measured 0.14% at 1 watt1kHz this figure rose to an unacceptable level of 1% a... | |
| The Best Amp for the Price of Dirt The Hi Fi World magazine review showed that these amps do have unusually high distortion.Which is probably the main reason they said they were not really suited to serious hi fi use.This may or may not cause speaker damage but it is probably a goo... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century When people mention reliability they need to realise that no product is likely to have a perfect record.A recent discussion on another NG [aus hi fi] gave figures for Marantz amplifiers from the 1970s.Even the most reliable still had 0.5% failure ... |