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I dropped into the Boulder amps room. They were using Focals and the sound was dreadful. The room was too small. The room was too hard with no treatment and the volume was to loud for the situation. I know both Boulder and focal and what should have been very good was instead verily bad. I...

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Funny about that. Near the end of the show I was so impressed with the vinyl that I dropped by the Audio Element and told Brian after I settle on amps we can talk vinyl. Gary

The Sabrina's are very much Wilson Audio speakers. These were in a good sized room and they did a good job of filling the space. For those who like the Sophia's, the Sasha's, the Alexia's they will find the Sabrina's to be a very good speaker. Since these were connected to VTL's they were warm...

Quad's anyone. They had some rare old vinyl that they were quite proud of. I know very little about cartridges but that was what they were selling. Gary

I found only one pair of B&W diamonds being used. Perhaps that's because the diamond tweeter is fragile and expensive to repair Here is a picture of mine after the cleaning lady bumped it with a mop handle. The diamond diffuser just crumbled. To repair the entire tweeter unit must be replaced...

As I said, there was a lot of vinyl being played here. When I walked into the gamuT room they were playing a vinyl copy of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side". This is one of my standard test tracks for sound stage. They play the refrain "And the colored girls go..." twice. At first it sounds...

ESS - My upgrade-iris began in 1974 when I purchased a pair of ESS Heil AMT-1a's with a 10 inch woofer and the Heil air motion sitting on top. This also started my love of dipoles. The Heil unit still looks the same. Dr. Heil's patents have long expired and you can now find some of his...

Brian's specialty is with turntables. Here he has the ClearAudio "Statement" and at $199,000 (for a record player) and I don't think that includes a cartridge. There is no end to this hobby I was quite surprised at the amount of vinyl that I heard at T.H.E. Show. So I put the 180g Beatles...

Down on second floor Brian Berdan (Audio Element in Pasadena, CA) had three nice rooms. I bought my Sasha's from Brian. Brian brought me here to introduce me to Luke Manley from VTL. I have talked with Luke on the phone before but this was my first face to face meeting. Here you can see some...

I never thought you could get this tight and I wouldn't recommend it but even with this it really did sound good and visitors left smiling: Gary

As you can see there is not much room behind the speakers and it appears as thought a potted plant is being used as a bass trap! Yep it's a show and you can't always get ideal conditions. Pete made some adjustments, dropped the bass 8 dB and unbelievably they sounded really good. You can see 2...

T.H.E. Show Newport was held over the weekend. I attended two days and here are a few pictures and some thoughts. Martin Logan was represented by LMC Home Entertainment (Mike Ware). Peter Soderberg Worked the first two days before he had to head out to San Antonio. LMC had two rooms. Since this...

Jason, congrats on moving into a nice sized apartment. I have my Neoliths in a 64 sq. meter room and it is more than adequate. I love them. IMHO you need at a minimum a room that is 5 meters wide and 8 meters long These speakers are large. This will be tight but doable. You should be fine for...

Hello Pete, When Mike brought the speakers he recommended the 8 ohm tap. I tried the 2 ohm and 4 ohm just to see the results but other than that I have left them on 8 ohm. A few minutes ago I put an ohm meter on the panels (taps) and got a reading of 6.0. The sound I'm getting now that I have...

I finally got to the passive bi-amping. First I put the MC1.2KW's on the bass and the 28B-SST^2's on the panels and then reversed the amps. The results were great I mean really great. I really liked both combinations but if forced to pick one I would say Bryston's on bass gave the best bass...

How much maintenance (ie tube replacement) have you had over your 15 years. I have had Prodigy's for 13 years. Currently I use them as my rears in a 7.1 MCS. While I was waiting for the Neolith's I sent the High Pass to ML in Kansas to check the electronics. Everything tested fine. I had new...

Back to the amps for the Neolith's. Tomorrow and Sunday I will be running through some passive bi-amp scenarios. I believe several of the combinations may be promising. I called Mark at Reno Hifi and discussed the XA-160.5's on sound quality but coming up a little short on power. I asked about...

For that length 12awg is sufficient. Good up to 60 feet. I run 12awg 50 to my rear channels and have no issues. Gary

Joey: I see a pair of red violin Strads on Gon for $23,750 located just a few miles from my LA. location. I can check them out and you can send Tim the bill. :ROFL: Gary