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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do use some vintage elements in my playback but I use them purposefully. I recognize their strengths and weaknesses and I capitalize on the strengths only. I think this is the only sane approach I see; when some vint...
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This thread is a derivation of the thread: Wilsons, EMM, Ozawa, Saint-Saens and...[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]While in general I agree with Romy about Wilsons, I have once or twice heard them sound really, really good. On the other hand I have also he...
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Perhaps a vintage tube radio with an auxiliary input or two? No DYI, a bit romantic, can have very good tone - especially if electrically cleaned up a bit.I have a pair of JBL LE8s that could very well be a solution for the bedroom....
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Wow, it took 3 hours to take it apart. As I always told those vintage driver made horrible. The do sound Ok but precession-wise and technology wise they were very pure. They really were the low teach devised made for popping up the sound pressure but...
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Romy,I travelled back from the Czech Republic yesterday and had lunch at the Pilsner Urquell brewery restaurant. A vintage wooden beer, wine or Cognac barrel would be the sexiest cabinet that I could imagine.Regards,Robin...
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I live in the Boston area and would like the opportunity to listen to a pair of vintage Tannoy Red or Gold speakers. An audio associate highly recommends them for remarkable tonality and musicality. If you are in or near Boston within a 60 mile rad...
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[quote]If it weren't for the fact that i'm loathe to rehabilitate my marantz gear i'd just as soon collect the parts for a 4-way melq setup over the next couple years and just listen to good music in the meantime. To reiterate; what i want to do righ...
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I find the fascination of boutique parts amusing. In the case of vintage tubes, using them is a guarantee that one day you will never be able to replace them. In my world, I want to optimize with „sensible“ parts, maybe even stockpile some extra tube...
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Montrose is one of those funny ones that, whilst not exactly at the top of the tree, seems to last forever, as is the tendency with some St. Estephes. All I can suggest with that is to return what you have left to the cellar for another 10 or 20 year...
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The dreadful Ms. Bize did indeed have a small holding of DRC, but this is ancient history and very acrimonious. Nowadays de Villaine detests her with a passion beyond words, but then again, he must derive enormous satisfaction from what abuse she inf...
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I refuse to reflect on the possibility of that '59 DRC Richebourg being taken from horizontal to vertical to horizontal in 5 minutes flat, since I would certainly have moved as quickly as necessary on this opportunity, myself (and have done!)!Dixie C...
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Romy,They had two rooms. The large room with the speakers posted above used the repo WE drivers by GIP. The other room had the vintage WE monitors that want down to 50 hz.BTW, the Silbatone brochure had both Silbatone and GIP products in it. There is...
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Romy, are you going to verify the decision of using fragile vintage drivers?E.g. by trying JBL midbass drivers?They would be closer to the design philosophy of the Fane Studio 8M.http://www.jblpro.com/components/maxout.htm#2020H...
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Oh, and yes, that is pretty much the Champagne sine qua non for aging; you've done really well there. 20-30 years is not unrealistic for the very best 90s, as includes even the 1990 Pol Roger Vintage. You need to be so careful to keep the bottle angl...
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Why can't I just accept claims like these at face value?If true specs and affordable, then they better stock up for an onslaught, never mind the sound quality.Toss your vintage Neumann this way...Best regards,Paul S...
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Not a MS owner, but have been wondering why buying this 30+ yrs old mat at all with all the risks you describe? Virtually any modern metal shop will be able to machine it and check the flatness down to microns. The price I guess would also be much lo...
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[quote user="Paul S"] Frankly, I am annoyed that I have been unable to grasp your notions of the "X Factor" … [/quote]
Borrow L2 for a weekend and you will be able to see it. I it hard to explain.
[quote user="Paul S"] So then I imagine Milquiades ...
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Gee, now that I read my post again after yours.... that last bit didn't quite say what I was wanting to say (I hate when that happens). I was really referring to people being "brand specific" as my example of the 45 showed that you can't always...
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Bonjour à tous, la banière a été enlevée du site, milles excuses pour ces désagréments.http://users.pandora.be/philmundi/index.htmlhttp://users.pandora.be/philmundi/vend/vend.htm Vintage old & new...
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[quote user="Paul S"] With the Wright amps the G2Si did not seem to live up to their efficiency specs using my little cap and coil crossover. I can't offer good descriptions of their sound with the ML2s until I get my TT going, but ...
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..how slim and non-invasive it looks. I know it must be huge but one wouldn't tell from the picture. Very gracefull form -almost vintage with all that dust ;0) Good luck finding those DPol's. Regards, W...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Here's what's behind my comment regarding the irrelevance of color: I strongly suspect that the new production diaphragms will come with transparent Mylar suspension. In that case, I would hope they turn out to have the me...
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Hi Romy, I had a background system for a while using either Kef 103.2 or tannoy gold 15¨ and McIntosh MC2205. I don't know anything about the other McIntosh gear but this particular amp had a reputation amongst french vintage nuts. My old Threshold...
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I thought the B1 was Yamaha's V-FET and the B2 was a later "hybrid", but I suppose both are Vintage Sufferer's wet dreams. I have never heard either amp, anyway.I have heard a couple of the original Sony Esprit V-FET amps, however, and they were cer...
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Yes, the way you came up with the Dunnoy is FUNNY! But I will tell you now that I was thinking of the 10" Tannoy for the reverb channels, not because it "does everything well", but because it is acceptable in terms of scale, and it has tone, and it m...
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Rullit Audio one of those funny c-37 type chaps but he is excellent with his hands it seems.He's done horns in both lathed and bent wood formats.He has a store on ebay and a gallery at Webshots. [url]http://stores.ebay.com/Rullit-Audio-Ultra-Fi-...
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this article is a pain to read. Its from and for old bitter „everything was better in the ol‘ times“ folk. It’s blindly (non selective/ unspecific) supporting any current vintage hype. Also it measures progress exclusively by the top notch? What a no...
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why not use this to your advantage as a selling point. "One of few in world" "built-in vintage horn speakers"load with fullrange/co-axial drivers and fire up the sound for buyers. I think they will like that....
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This time from Germany and this time the pattern is very much the similar to the patterns of any other company that sell electromagnet fro Hi-Fi: the semi-idiotic statements-claims meant to impress uninformed peoples and no credible claims about ...
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[quote user="RonyWeissman"]What is the problem ? Listening to the, for example, rca victor red-seal recordings of CSO /Reiner I hear midbass weight, presence and realism that I do not have with the shelter. It is not the pushing forward or highl...
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