I have been reading everywhere about better receivers while trying to buy the best vintage stereo with a merger budget to start. I admit when I was really interested in stereo back in the seventies I really wanted a big power sound. On returning to stereo this year I began with a search for big […]
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Paul McGowan writes: Since its launch in 1985, only a sparse handful of speakers have reached its level of dynamics, transparency, and sheer musicality. It’s not that others can’t. To do so takes a big speaker and a lot of money. Now that we are moved into our new building we’re finishing up three new […]
I decided to buy a vintage stereo. Theres not a huge amount of options to purchase locally , Over the last two weeks I bought what I thought was the best I could find on a poor mans budget. I got a Sansui Au505 that had just been fully recapped and restored, A pair of […]
Hello Folks, Since re-veneering my Rega Ela’s a few weeks ago i started to use my Hi-Fi and listen to music a bit more. getting the use of a proper Hi-Fi system after months of low grade car audio and a small kitchen transistor radio was obviously a great aural feeling. i do also have […]
Okay, so I have not found the worlds best engineered preamp, but does it exist? I want a preamp that has two main outs, just regular outs not reversed or anything special, it must have a external processor loop and at least bass, midrange and treble tone controls. Well, there is one company, Mcintosh that […]
Does anyone have one of these – in full working order – for sale? Thanks. HP https://en.audiofanzine.com/analog-multitrack/stellavox/SP8/user_reviews/ http://www.audio-ideas.com/reviews/analog-sources/analog-recorders.html http://museumofmagneticsoundrecording.org/ManufacturersStellavox.html https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/stellavox_portable_tape_recorder_sp8.html
Recently pulled out an ADC SS-412X Sound Shaper Graphic Equalizer Spectrum Analyzer and would like to know the pro’s and con’s of using such a device. I don’t know whether i’d consider myself to be a purist or not as i’ve never hooked this up to my system, nor would i know how at this […]
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I read one of your posts about the Beveridge speakers. I am located in Chicago have recently purchased a pair of Beveridge 2sw speakers. Before running the Beveridges, I was using Apogee Scintilla speakers. As good as the Scintillas are they are no match for the Beveridge speakers. I feel like I have died and […]
The Flame Still Burns Imagine a speaker with no moving parts. No mass, no cones, no ribbons, no diaphragms, no enclosure, no Doppler shift, no resonances- just the ability to modulate the air directly. Now imagine a perfect audio point source (the ideal pulsating sphere) radiating uniformly with constant phase. This has been the dream of physicists for […]
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From VALVE Volume 2 Number 7 July 1995 Bill called a couple Saturdays ago to tell me that he had traded a Mac 1700 (a hybrid receiver, with tube tuner and solid-state amp) for a Scott 340 receiver. The person he traded with acknowledged a greater value for the Mac than the Scott and offered […]
