BEVERIDGE: 2SW speakers

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 […]

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HILL PLASMATRONIC: Dedicated to the World’s Finest Speaker, the 1A

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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NAD: 356BEE Integrated amplifier useful info #1

The makers said: With 80 watts of continuous power and over 200 watts of dynamic power, the C 356BEE can drive demanding speakers to life-like listening levels. Wielding NAD’s PowerDrive™ circuit topology ensures that the C 356BEE accurately controls loudspeakers, resulting in clear, rich sound. With low levels of both distortion and noise, the C […]

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NAD: 356BEE Integrated amplifier useful info #2

What Hi-Fi said … The £600 price-point is sparse when it comes to integrated stereo amps, our Buyer’s Guide confirms. So NAD has either cannily pitched the C356BEE where there’s little competition or produced an amp at a price where no real market exists. Either way, there’s no doubting the C356BEE’s on-paper credentials. It has […]

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VALVE Magazine Online! Tech tips and other unsolicited advice. The 75 Minute Restoration

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 […]

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PS AUDIO: Accepting that microphones are not accurate and perfect transducers of live events …..

Paul McGowan writes: The two parts to any sound reproduction chain that are imperfect – in fact not very close to perfect at all – are the inputs and outputs.  Everything else in between the input microphone and the output loudspeaker is relatively perfect when compared to the inaccuracies of the these two primary transducers. […]

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