russ69
Responses from russ69
| Hi, new here. out of loop long time. where we at? You might want to try a pair of Triangles (Antal ES). Very tube friendly and amazing 3D. Everything a horn speaker would like to be. | |
| Systen Upgrade advice Biggest improvement is always loudspeakers. It is at least until you run out of money. | |
| High End Tube Gear Transition to High End SS Just my opinion but downsizing is a mistake. There I said it. Clean up your set-up, maybe buy a new table or rack but you wont like the results of moving down from the gear you have. | |
| New production EL84/6BQ5 tubes? The NOS RCAs are very nice and much better than the stock Jolida tubes. I just replace the RCAs with Mullard reissues and that is also a quality tube, nicely made and good sound, just a tad more neutral than the NOS RCAs. | |
| Hifi V.s. The music makers "Russ, this and that is true, but no great recording artist can make poor performance great while great musician can turn poor recording sound great. Czarivey"I agree 100%. | |
| Hifi V.s. The music makers There are musicians and there are the recording arts. The musicians produce the raw material for the recording artists/engineers to use in their product. Sometimes the musician is highly involved and sometimes not. Not to go too far off course but... | |
| Have you heard pro studio monitors ? In top studios after all the work is done using nearfield monitors, the music is played on high-end home loudspeakers as a final check. I don't know if that carries any weight because on pop recordings they will also play the cut on a car loudspea... | |
| Quiet Amp Cooling Fan I hate to say it but if you are in a smaller room that is really quiet, any fan is going to be heard. There is no way to kill it. I have tried. | |
| Need some recommendations - hard driving big band Henry Mancini, Big Latin Band. Not what it sounds like. Great tunes that drive hard and the recording quality is top shelf. | |
| Need to Downsize: Small Speaker Recommendation How can you not have room for a 12X12 inch foot print? | |
| best match power amp for Acoustic Research AR 3 The design of the AR-3 required a lot of power. I think around 150wpc would be about right and they will take more. | |
| Acoustic Research AR-3 The AR3a was a good speaker in it's day but it is long ago obsolete. I don't think I would repair a non-working pair. They do look great and have solid cabinets but the drivers are fairly low quality compared to today's designs. I'm not sure it's ... | |
| Hot Stamper - myth or reality? As most know records are made from stampers which are made from mothers which are made from the master. The closer you get to the master, the better the pressing. You surely don't want the 10,000th copy from the 6th mother if you can get one that ... | |
| Some irrefutable truths about rock and roll What is this Boo-gee Woo-gee music you are talking about? | |
| Just a bit to bright Runnin has it right. Get rid of the stranded speaker cable. If that doesn't do it, you will have to kill the tweeter with a resistor. Contact the manufacturer for recommendations. |