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| Recommedation to drive Electrostatics? ML, Inner? Well, the good news is there are quite a few amps that can drive a pair of Martin Logans well. The bad news is, they tend to be big and expensive.Among amps that will work well are models from InnerSound, Parasound (JC-1), Levinson, Wolcott, Conve... | |
| A brutal review of the Wilson Maxx Hi Songwriter72,As an amateur I did build other true first-order crossover two-way speakers that sounded pretty good (though power handling was compromised), but those did not measure "flat" on-axis. I use a combination of mechanical and electrica... | |
| A brutal review of the Wilson Maxx A core issue in the design of audio equipment is, "what really matters?"Not everything that can readily be measured matters. For instance, total harmonic distortion measurements have essentially no correlation with perceived sound quality, but cer... | |
| Speaker Sugestions Wanted $1500 max Hi Crazytubepower,Glad to have you amongst us! I think the best bang-for-the-buck prospects are likely to be among used, discontinued loudspeakers.My suggestions would be Klipsch Cornwall (comparable in efficiency to your RF-3's but better quality... | |
| A little help please. Well I'm going to ramble a bit here, so be warned...Speakers that have a great deal of variation in the shape of their radiation pattern (due to beaming) are less likely to give you decent soundstaging and decent tonal balance from well off axis. ... | |
| Which Tube Preamp under $10K? Thanks, Glide3 and Fiddler, for your kind words.Stan doesn't object to my making "informative" posts, just "commercial" ones. And frankly my post on this thread was more commercial than informative.Don't worry about my posting tapering off; I'll s... | |
| Amp for Shahinian Diapasons The last time I spoke with Dick Shahinian (a little over a year ago), he recommended Plinius. | |
| Which Tube Preamp under $10K? To Stanhifi,Perhaps you are right. I think a fair number of my posts are more informative than commercial, but lately I may have drifted more towards the latter. Thanks for the feedback.Duke | |
| Which Tube Preamp under $10K? Since your Bel Canto has balanced inputs, you might consider the Atma-Sphere MP-1 preamp with phono stage. Frankly I have no first-hand (or even second-hand) experience with the combination, but if your priorities are "speed, dimensionality, and t... | |
| BEST LOW VOLUME FULL RANGE SPEAKERS? Nrchy has a very valid point, which is that the ear is much less sensitive to bass than to midrange especially at low volume levels. A 20 or 30 Hz tone at 60 dB is inaudible. At 80 dB a 30 Hz tone is audible, but a 20 Hz tone is only barely audibl... | |
| Sota Big Monitors.. Hi Ben,Thanks for your kind words.Okay, the term "small room" as used by Earl Geddes would apply to your room. You see, virtually all studies of acoustics are of "large" rooms - i.e. auditoriums and concert halls. Very few acoustic studies have be... | |
| Sota Big Monitors.. Not sure what your definition of "big monitors" encompasses. If "monitor" means "sits on a stand", and "big" means "BIG", then...I hope you don't mind a dealer chiming in about something he owns and sells, but you might consider the GedLee Summas.... | |
| Post-Katrina salvage of audio gear and software Hello David!Great to hear you and your parents and Trixie made it out okay. I feared the worst for your house, and from what you describe that seems to be the case. I'm still kind of shell-shocked by it all, and I wasn't even there.Regarding the p... | |
| Duke did the Sound LABs survive? Albert -I have been told that Richard Gray is alive and well in Tupelo, Mississippi. I don't know what condition his business is in, nor when he will be allowed to return.Richard's house is about a mile or so from my old house, and being fairly cl... | |
| Duke did the Sound LABs survive? I haven't been on the audio sites in a while and was surprised to see this thread. Thanks for your concern George SchubertManiac. And thanks for posting on my behalf, Albert and Brian.I moved from New Orleans two months ago. It had nothing to do w... |