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| Hot Rats Mysterioso1, The Grand Wazoo and Waka Jawaka are both demo quality, with great dynamics, tone color, and a big open stage presentation, but musically, TGW is the better album with more great songs. My original 1973 vinyl still sounds great. | |
| Energy speakers If you are doing an HT, you should think first about the center channel speaker….most use horizontal MTM configuration, which sucks no matter who does it. Look for a true 3way CC and get matched L/R towers. I suggest looking into another Canadian ... | |
| Speaker/equipment placement Ask married owners of Magneplanars if they move them for serious listening and you’ll find it’s not so rare. With heavy cabinet speakers, especially spiked, yeah that’s not happening. | |
| Volume Control Too Sensitive If you are using unbalanced connections, this may work: GT102 VC | |
| A perfect song? What are your choices? Jackson Browne "For A Dancer" Joni Mitchell "Both Sides Now" Bob Dylan "Just Like A Woman" Jimi Hendrix "Axis: Bold As Love" The Beatles "I Saw Her Standing There" Rolling Stones "Wild Horses" Paul Simon "Sounds Of Silence" Smokey Robinson ... | |
| Celestion Ditton 66’s. ‘Upgrade’ to modern speakers consequences? You’ll need to spend in excess of $10K to equal the Ditton 66 in terms of full range power response. Focal Kanta 3 would be one to check out. Expect greater resolution and more articulate bass with lower coloration overall. If this is way out of t... | |
| Was my friend given misinformation. Way2 has a similar background to mine...initially and still an enthusiast/ hobbyist, but spent almost 5 decades in the industry making my living. Big chains hire people and "train them up" but they rarely achieve the level of knowledge of a true ... | |
| Was my friend given misinformation. The B&W 603S2AE is a plain looking box but is a very good speaker for the dough, even head to head with Revel or Focal equivalents. Denon makes some of the best value AVRs, too, but for the same cost a more targeted integrated might have been... | |
| My last Integrated Amp: $5-10,000? The Michi X5 is $7500 and is described by a veteran audio technician of my acquaintance as a work of art from the viewpoint of engineering, parts quality and build. It deserves consideration in this category. There is also an X3 with (only) 200W... | |
| Integrated Amp Suggestions Hardly any manufacturers put speaker selectors on amps with that much power output…not even way back when. The Rotel or the NAD C399 might be the ticket. High end designers eschew speaker relays as a rule. | |
| For classical music lovers best amp for large orchestral forces? I don’t believe in magic. A 25W/ch amp no matter how good, will not reproduce large orchestral crescendi through an 89 dB speaker convincingly. If you have a superb tube preamp (you have!), you want a transparent amp with a large current capacity... | |
| Cable curmudgeon When I started out in this hobby, speaker wire was 18 ga. zipcord...16 ga. if you felt like a splurge. Premium interconnects were Switchcraft. Speaker terminals were screws with knurled nuts, and the Marantz 7, 8, and 9 were still around (but on... | |
| Digital Interconnects - Which one is the BEST ??!! Digital coax cables are functionally equivalent to what used to be called composite video cables, which are wide bandwidth shielded cables with 75 Ohm characteristic impedance and can be finished with BNC termination or RCA. Apparently it’s more ... | |
| Can a DAC sort out a flat\cold amp? A gross lack of bass is NOT characteristic of that amp or any properly functioning modern HiFi SS amp. Other than speakers wired with incorrect polarity (a definite possibility), an impedance mismatch (unlikely) or your seat is smack dab in a null... | |
| Need Recommendations for a pair of Speakers around $1,000 Focal is offering discounts on the Chora 806, which is a well rounded stand mount. Revel is offering 30% off M16s and F35s. If you are a tool using man, look at Parts Express kits. The Morel Ardon kit or the Amiga MT. |