stanwal
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| turntable recommendations for a vinyl newbie... About $2500-$3000 would give you a sound that would be at least completive with your digital. Are you sure you want do do it? LP costs have gone way up since I amassed my collection. The above does not include a phono stage and was figuring buying... | |
| What Wilson to Buy? Since the Sasha is a development of the WP8 I am going to extrapolate from my experience with a friends pair. I would say the Sophia's are likely to be much easier to drive and have a wider choice of amps they will work with. I used Quad speakers ... | |
| Seas Excel Magnesium Drivers - Warm Sounding? What amp are you using, this will have a major effect on the sound of the speaker. My friend had the D-1s driven by an Ayon amps and they do not sound warm or laid back, I am not sure what drivers it uses. The crossover and cabinet have a large ef... | |
| Will there be any 'Arrow' mark in a Fuse holder? Things can travel faster than light, EPR effects are instantaneous as noted above. Space can expand much faster than light as well. The Special Theory forbids the sending of SIGNALS faster than light. Quantum entanglement applies only to certain t... | |
| SUT shootout I have a Bob's Devices SUT, which uses Cinemag and it is quite good. I just heard it Sat. used with the Phono section of my Magic preamp into a friends system consisting of Wilson Sasha speakers driven by Lamm amp and pre and Raven table with Grah... | |
| Will there be any 'Arrow' mark in a Fuse holder? I searched long and hard for the source of the quote in the original post and finally found it. It is on page 963 of THE FENG SHUI OF FUSE HOLDERS by Hugh G. Lyar [sec. ed.]. Seriously, I have known audiophiles to obsess over fuses; a friend subst... | |
| Will there be any 'Arrow' mark in a Fuse holder? I have never heard it said that Audiophile fuses have direction and I haven't seen arrows on them either. How are you suppose to know which way the arrow is to be pointed if there was one. Please explain why YOU think they are directional; "They" ... | |
| Will there be any 'Arrow' mark in a Fuse holder? I can think of no reason for one end of a fuse to be different than the other and have never heard any suggestion that they are directional. The quote sounds like gibberish to me. How does the current know anything about the orientation of the fus... | |
| Amp for Sonus Faber Cremona - old model I have been thinking of getting an older Cremona myself sometime. I think the amp I am currently using, a CJ Premier 350, would be very good with them. They will run between 4 and 5 thousand $ if you can find one. One of the best amps ever made. | |
| The pursuit of bass... I find midrange problems affect the sound much more than bass, speakers which get the midrange wrong can be intolerable. There is a lot more music in the midrange than in the bass area. I am quite use to listening to various amounts of bass as I h... | |
| How many years is a flagship component good for? Kristian, I take it quite seriously as you would yourself if you knew more about audio. I have spend nearly 50 years in audio myself and am quite confident in my own taste but lack the time, money or energy to hear everything on the market. Theref... | |
| What is a class G amp ? G has advantages in every area except sound quality; if that matters. | |
| How many years is a flagship component good for? I buy my gear by purchasing top end units from the past. I am just considering bringing my speakers up to 1996 from 1983. Despite their age I have heard VERY FEW that equal my present ones. I often use a tube pre built in 1987 and SS amps from the... | |
| Which cost more: your system or your car? It is a 1995 Volvo Turbo, so there are two of us. | |
| Which cost more: your system or your car? System, at least 10X cost of my latest car [ a 1995, which I bought 5 years ago]. It was a $35000 car I bought for $6000; I use the same method in buying audio, older quality models, let someone else take the initial hit. |