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| What can beat Wilson XVX for less money? If the room would accommodate them, I haven’t heard a more coherent and well balanced reproducer than MBL Radialstrahlers. German Physiks maybe or for old schoolers like me Ohm’s best. In principle I like the coherent cylinrical wave better than d... | |
| Hello and "THANKS IN ADVANCE" Perp, I sold all these products back in their heyday. To distill the various advice to clear instructions... 1. Your amp must have a "tape loop", "external processor loop", or pre-out/main-in jumpers in order to incorporate an EQ in the signal ... | |
| Name 3 songs where audio quality and song quality completely align Bruce Cockburn - Kit Carson from Nothing But A Burning Light Norah Jones - I’ve Go To See You Again from Come Fly Away Emmylou & Linda - For A Dancer from Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions +1 on L & M - Pathway To Glory from Full Sail ! | |
| LOUDEST Concert and Tinnitus 1968. The Village Theater on 2nd Ave, later known as The Fillmore East. Canned Heat opened, and they were deafening. In the back row of the balcony! My ears rang for the better part of a week. After the Heat, Cream played their set, maybe loud... | |
| The Mood Was Ruined I was listening to Jonathan Bliss play Sonata 31 recently after having played Gilels’ Olympia recording, Brendel’s and Serkin’s. What’s with the guy’s tempos? Robs the piece of its majesty. I also played Andrew Rangell. All great, but Gilels great... | |
| Ray Charles - "Rap is not music" I love some pretty shitty music, full of archaic sexual innuendo, played to a very predictable repetitive musical structure, but I love it anyway. That’s the Blues I’m talking about. My Swing Era parents thought Jimi Hendrix was horrendous. I p... | |
| Beatles vs. Stones 61, You have some kind of citation for that? I'm not buying it. I am a passably good blues harp player and there is no way the same player is heard on the early Beatles "Please Please Me" or "Love Me Do" (John Lennon) and on "Honest I Do" or "Kin... | |
| Full range speakers, 40"-44" max height Seek out a pair of Focal Kanta 2 to hear. They are 44” tall and except for the deepest bass frequencies, very good, especially for orchestral music, opera, etc. | |
| Should I upgrade my speaker cables? Heimdal2 is not a low tier model, it is the low end of the higher tier Norse2 series. As such, it uses the same materials and tech as upper Norse2 models. You don’t say how long they are…it matters. Kijanki spelled it out…he must be a physicist... | |
| Beatles vs. Stones I was in 7th grade when the Beatles played the Sullivan Show, and I watched the Stones bowdlerize their hit “Let’s Spend The Night Together” for Mr. Ed. I don’t think the Stones ever topped the Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There” until “Satisfact... | |
| Is Magnepan still in business ? We are a dealer and they are in business. They always ran a quirky operation but are also having staffing challenges since the pandemic. They are flat out trying to keep up with orders. Some of their long time people have retired, and the founder’... | |
| Did the Old Receivers Sound Good? In my experience with the receivers of the 70s many had good amplifiers, but few had preamplifier performance to match. Integrated amps were no different in this respect. This applies only to transistor gear. I recall fronting a Sansui AU 5500 ... | |
| Upgrade to McIntosh FWIW, MC275 has a very low output impedance for a tube amp, so its bass is plenty tight, so much so that some tube aficionados don’t consider it “tubey” enough! That said, you may want to look into a VTL ST150 and TL2.5i for a comparison if you c... | |
| Mystery! Consider the possibility of an environmental factor such as RFI/EMI. Maybe a ham radio operator nearby, whose transmitter is not always in use? Plus, UK CD players are more likely to do this in general, Rega, Naim, etc. at least in my experience. | |
| What happened to Rotel? While I sympathize with your disappontment in the service you've gotten, an observation I'd like to throw out there to all readers is that smaller companies like Rotel, Anthem, NAD, and others have their limitations where Home Theater is concerned... |