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The stepped up audio signal from a normal ESL driver transformer system could be harmful or lethal under unlucky circumstances, and you...

A lot of moving parts here. IMO re-paneling and burning in are both oversold here, except burning in not so much with ESL panels. It's...

The only problem I have with the time part is after a while I get burned out and lazy, and just want to sit and listen to the music...

I just re-read your post. The part about your sofa about a foot from your rear wall set off alarm bells. With loudspeakers as coherent...

Thanks for these interesting links, JonFo. The Sanders white paper very well explains the limitations of using tubes to drive speakers...

Is the MC257 a solid state amp with an autotransformer output? If so, you should use the lowest tap for the CLSII's. Their impedance...

From a classic Monty Python skit. A man (I believe it's John Cleese) walks into a pet store wanting to buy a cat. The pet store owner...

Kind of like doing a budgie job on a terrier. But agreed, anything beats dumping the beautiful casework into the landfill. My own...

Yes this looks like it would do the trick. It has very complete specs (though I had to use the magnifier applet to actually be able to...

In order to get balanced ins with Odyssey, you have to go to the Stratos line, which is what I was considering. I haven't looked at the...

I seriously considered Odyssey before a used pair of Parasound JC-1 monoblocks became available to me. TAS has given them several...

If you're that curious, see if you can borrow one. But all tube amplifiers are not the same, any more than all amplifiers are the same...

David Manley, in his "Vacuum Tube Logic Book", boasts of the quality of his bifilar wound OTL's. The OTL is the Achilles Heel of a...

It's true that what speakers you like and what amp you like to power them with is ultimately a subjective thing. But they are governed...

I suspect a large number of audio fanatics are single.