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Wharfedale vintage bookshelf speakers

i’ve found a pair of small wharfedales at a garage sale. they look great. probably 20-30W at 4-6 ohms. i can’t identify the model, other than the wharfedale logo, there’s no sign saying anything. they’re made in england, 2-way and that’s about it. anybody can direct me to a list with wharfedale speakers from the […]

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Daniel Barenboim and Christoph Waltz in conversation

Barenboim and Waltz discuss the importance of the text in the respective creative disciplines Today’s video is a fascinating conversation between Daniel Barenboim and the actor Christoph Waltz in which they discuss the differences between the texts that they use in performance – for Barenboim the score, for Waltz the script. They also explore how […]

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STRAWBS: Live In Gettysburg (CD + DVD Digipack)

  We are told ….. 2016 was a major turning point for STRAWBS. Prestigious ROLLING STONE magazine listed the band’s ‘Hero and Heroine’ as “one of the 50 greatest prog rock albums of all time”. STRAWBS headlined RoSFest (The Rites of Spring Festival) – North America’s Premier International Progressive Rock Festival – in Gettysburg, the […]

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AUDIO INSIDER

NAKAMICHI: 680ZX dual-speed cassette deck – test review

Howard Popeck … Launched in 1980, the maker’s claims were, on the face of it, outrageous; “True high-fidelity performance at half-speed”. Although cassette recording and play-back technology were, through outstanding engineering, approaching the theoretical limits of what could be achieved, and enthusiasm for the medium was probably at its peak, true audiophiles rarely accepted that […]

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AUDIO INSIDER

DAMPING FACTOR: Explanation

HI-FI WORLD tell us … This typical example gets the issue of Damping Factor into perspective. Amplifiers commonly have an output impedance of 0.1 Ohms. Loudspeaker cables will add 0.3 Ohms or so, and the low pas bass inductor of a loudspeaker – in this case a World Audio Design KLS9 measures 0.66 Ohms even with a […]

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