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Month: May 2020
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A reader writes ….. “I found some low sensitivity speakers(80 to 86dB)sounds much better at higher volume. It seems to be a threshold volume for this type of speakers to sound right. At low volume, the tonal balance is usually no good. Examples are ATC passive monitors and my pioneer S-A4SPT-PM. Higher sensitivity speakers such […]
The unusual Miyajima Shilabe moving-coil cartridge ($2800) came to my attention through a friend, and I obtained one from the importer, Robin Wyatt of Robyatt Audio, a music lover and dedicated audiophile who imports gear as a sideline, and who lives nearby in New Jersey. To continue reading please click HERE.
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Blue Circle Audio is a boutique audio manufacturing company that constantly strives to push the cutting edge in audio reproduction. We offer a wide array of products that encompass every aspect of an audio system from amps, preamps, dacs, power filtering, cables and speakers. Each Blue Circle product is individually hand crafted and thoroughly tested […]
http://www.keithhaddock.com/ We are told: Named for their room-filling bass output, the new SuperSub X and XXL subwoofers are surprisingly easy to accommodate. By exploiting a patented dual-plane ‘inertially-balanced’ driver and sub-bass radiator topology, driven by powerful Class D amplification, GoldenEar’s bijou bass engines will generate fast and fulsome low frequencies from beautifully unobtrusive gloss black […]
Living voice and kondo amplifiers produce one of the best sounds as per reviews on 6moons,can any body suggest a tube amplifier to partner Living Voice speakers,for which i do not have to spend more than $7000. 24 responses HERE
Coincident is excited to announce that 8 years after its introduction, the Pure Reference Extremes are undergoing an update of significant proportions. The improvements include the following:. All drivers and crossovers will be internally wired with our state of the art Statement cabling; The tweeter and midrange drivers will be improved to the latest versions […]
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Strain-gauge phono cartridges are rarely made and seldom heard; for most vinyl fans, they are more myth than fact. Panasonic once made one, as did Sao Win, but those were decades ago. I’ve heard about those two models for years but have never seen, much less heard one. As if he’s not got enough to […]
Class D amplifiers have been around for many decades yet they haven’t gotten much of a following in the high-end community. In fact, they are sometimes downright hated. Why is that? Watch Now
Paul McGowan writes: I’m not sure how this thread morphed into a How I built this about volume controls but things have a tendency to just drift in a certain direction. But, I ramble on. In yesterday’s post, I told the story of boiling the innards of a volume control down to nothing more than a […]
Every musical track, speaker system, and room has a perfect volume level. It isn’t based on the time of day or the listener’s mood. It’s based solely on what works. And that is something rare. The Mahler 3d really only works at one level. Too little and the quietest passages are missed. Too loud and the […]
Mott The Hoople frontman Ian Hunter tells Andrew Perry about Bowie, band breakups, and playing bigger gigs than in their Seventies heydey Mott the Hoople, one of the great bands of the glam-rock era, are about to play the biggest gig of their career. The band, whose landmark hit All the Young Dudes was written […]
This may be a silly question, from a variety of perspectives, but here goes. Folks on here occasionally mention a sound quality often referred to as “congested”, usually when the volume gets liberally applied. I’ve paid careful attention to this in my own experiences, and noticed that the volume at which I hear this effect […]
“Eight American orchestras have filed for bankruptcy in the last year. With classical concert attendance in decline, or at best, holding steady, orchestras are looking for new audiences, and considering new ways to attract those audiences. One possibility is a high tech device called the “Concert Companion.” NPR’s Fred Child had the opportunity to test-drive […]
Max Langridge writes ….. The BLP-1 uses a belt-drive mechanism and is fitted with a proprietary pulse width modulation (PWM) power supply called the BTP-1. The power supply drives the high torque motor which, Bryston says, delivers exceptionally accurate 33 1/3 and 45 RPM speeds. Records are placed on the 35mm thick Delrin platter which […]
Paul McGowan writes …… As a vegetarian for most of my adult life I don’t eat meat, fish or crow. Because I promised all of you I would eat crow if I was wrong about putting a preamp in the system, let me back off and simply use another metaphor I can live with: swallowing […]
Hey everyone, I am looking for some cheap tweaks, i just got done putting in a inner tube under my componets as an isolation device, and it works great. What else would you reccomend?..i am also thinking of an inner tube under the spkrs, with some sort of device to keep them stable. What do […]
Quite so! Neil McCauley / editor in chief Please click HERE for the history of this unfortunate and entirely avoidable situation
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