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| Can I suspend / hang speakers? | |
| Do you have any gear that was outright given to you? A perfect pair of Chartwell LS3/5as with an extra NOS woofer that my neighbor had and his adult kids gave me when he passed away and they were cleaning out the house. Good karma I guess. | |
| Best Amplifier for LS3/5a I have Chartwell LS3/5as (15 ohm) and they sound beautiful even driven by a vintage SS 15WPC Marantz. The older Marantz do well with the higher impedance loads. | |
| “You have to open a door or window to let the pressure out of the room.” If there is truly something to this that is physically notable, it seems to me that you would best be able to tell by using tracks that you can feel in your chest. Two come to mind, and I certainly feel them with my system but have no way to clos... | |
| Altec N1500A crossover rebuild "Big Red cabinets from Mastering Labs" Actually Mastering Labs made the crossovers, but AudioTechnica made the cabinets and distributed the speakers. | |
| Altec N1500A crossover rebuild Super Big Reds in furniture-grade cabinets, tri-amped (Marantz 1180DC for pre-amp and horns, Marantz 170DC s for the 15"s) with one-off electronic crossover and eq units for the horns. https://youtu.be/iGa9259pz-I https://youtu.be/jsPePauUaLo ... | |
| Volume considerations https://youtu.be/P1R2dKRDFUk | |
| BEST HORN LOUDSPEAKER TO PURCHASE Something like these: They are tri-amped so you can pretty much adjust things for any chosen volume level without resorting to eq. Pick your volume level and adjust things from there. Best of all, well within your budget, even with the crossove... | |
| Is Budget Audiophile an oxymoron? In general response to the question, No, if you build your own and have the where with all, time, and patience to perfect it. My speakers cost ~$1,500 to build using quality parts from Craigs List and eBay and with an Oppo-95 and Yamaha RX-Z9 pur... | |
| A new measurement specification for speakers? So if the speaker is shown to be "bass heavy" at 1 watt, and this makes it sound "good to the ear" because it compensates for the F-M curve, and it is consistent to its frequency response across its power band, it will be "bass heavy," overpowerin... | |
| A new measurement specification for speakers? The difference is the way in which the mfg balanced their speaker and for what volume. For example, a speaker that is "bass-heavy" will sound fuller at lower volume (so would "open up" sooner?) because it is compensating for the F-M hearing loss.... | |
| Favorite Led Zeppelin Album This one (complete album): https://youtu.be/XhXKZRuQTtE?list=PLdQigQzpOj8_w0lhBksHHPu4XPRUQl1Fd | |
| Have you ever thought it would be cool to have a stereo reviewer come to your house? Has to be written..., and accepted, first. I’ve done several articles for Kalmbach (re: Garden Railroading) and they can take almost a year depending on what they already have in the can. https://youtu.be/jQ6rcU1Vbwo | |
| Have you ever thought it would be cool to have a stereo reviewer come to your house? Well, as I noted earlier, I asked the editor of Stereophile Magazine if they would like to review my low cost system with Craigs List/eBay parts-sourced speakers and included a YouTube clip. They thought enough of it as to ask me to write an arti... | |
| Cheap crimp connection vs. Solder All of my audio connections past the amplifier use 5% silver solder. Silver solder is harder to work with and prone to cold joints so more care must be exercised in it’s use, especially when soldering to enameled single strand (e.g., a big choke)... |