marakanetz
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| Are Horn Speakers good or bad or simply a complete joke? I heard many horn speakers and I can say they're all joke EXCEPT Avantgarde, but they consider to be not full-horn speakers except Trios that cost $50k at least, but even with no woofers go down to 32hz flat.Blw, you might not believe but you can ... | |
| Avantgarde's are Great but Bass Integration? I listened yesterday Unos and newest SOLOs. The SOLOs are active monitors simply amazed me with excellent bass compared to Unos and tight organized sound with Capitole-2/Placette...I was actually about to audition UNOs and listened to them more th... | |
| What are the "Must have" LP's? All of CAN and its members, all of VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR and PETE HAMMILL solos, all of PAT METHENY, all of KING CRIMSON and its members, all of FOCUS and YAN AKKERMAN, all of PIERRE MOERLEN, all of PEKKA POHJOLA, all of DAVID SYLVIAN, FZ JAZZ F... | |
| What's My Problem? Used Vandy 1b or 1c can be the same price as your new NHT but they can work great with weak and low-powered amps due to the stable impedance. Also for the vertually same amount of funds you can change for small Creek integrated to replace your sep... | |
| How important is speaker positioning?My experience ...no need to shop at circuit city or best buy. if you're talented enough you can brew the speaker that suits only your room with cheap drivers that will blow 10x spent for the factory ones. saw the professional acoustic engineer's artwork myself ... | |
| Amplifier Hum In addition to kr...'s comments, I can add that the power line influence is likely act on tubes but under certain conditions can act on transistors as well. So make also sure that your amp is not standing next to the AC outlet; check AC outlet for... | |
| Speaker break in period DON'T TAKE MY PREVIOUS POST REAL SERIOUSELY since if you pass an enormous signal you might damage or over-stress the voice-coil. Over-stressed voice coil(i.e. with damaged or deformed chrystalic structure) will permanently revoke any of your break... | |
| Lullabies, Anyone? Chick Corea's "Children Songs" solo album. | |
| Speaker break in period For those who likes to break-in speakers at high volume, I recommend break-in your new car at speed not less than 105mph. Who cares, it's still on warranty huh? The best way to break-in is to place the DJ cartridge or the one that you don't care a... | |
| How important is speaker positioning?My experience ...to the point that properly placed cheap speakers can outperform more expencive non-properly placed. | |
| What's My Problem? believe it or not but it clips! don't pay too much attention to power ratings since measuring an accurate power ratings consumes too much time for the cheapo amp. | |
| Thinking about new cartridge .5mV is a-bit bellow the bottom line for your phono sencitivity. thus you should have a preamp with input sencitivity at least 220mV or better.if you have a unity-gain or passive preamp I would not recommend you to use lower than 0.8mV cartridge c... | |
| Help with $600 to $800 integrated amp to upgrade amp AND speakers certainly will bring you excellent results, but i only saw $800 the bottom line.havn't heard Epos though, but Triangle Celius with Creek 4330R can be giant-killer budget combo. Stretching to 5350R might bring you some p... | |
| Amp Problem in this issue the primary source gear is the key source. If it's digital separates than the problem is in the transport. If it's analogue than the problem is in the turntable.also checking the proper ground connection in your AC outlet should also... | |
| Help with $600 to $800 integrated amp Now I realize that my previous post missing one main thing due to my non-accurate reading of the real situation in that discussion...An the main thing is SPEAKERS. with $600...800 if you acquire Vandersteen 1c even new or used for cheaper you will... |