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    A Big Mac (Macintosh that is) experience

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    hi,

    On jazz and female vocals if you closed your eyes you would think your in a club listening live ,,,, I've been to many jazz clubs in Philadelphia, NYC and in Washington DC and it was like being there again. As for rock .... most of it today is amplified and played through a large array of speakers so what you hear is not like the presentation of sound in a small club. I didn't hear any classical on the system but my guess is it would have been fabulous.

    Larry

    A Big Mac (Macintosh that is) experience

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    Hi all,

    Yesterday I stopped in my local audio dealers store to pick up some 14 gauge speaker wire. He had on hooked up and on display Macintosh's reference system. I have never seen or heard anything like it. The retail price is $200,000 !!! The speakers are over 6 feet tall and have 6 12" woofers and vertical arrays of 36 and 24 ( I think, there were a lot of them ) 1" dome and 2 " cone tweeters and mid range speakers. They weigh hundreds of pounds each. The enclosures were made of some high tech plastic or polymer and I could hardly feel any cabinet vibration at SPLs of 85 to 90 db. The power amps produced 2000 watts and were hooked up to a to individual power supplies a preamp and another module which I don't know the function of. The amp system took up a 6 to 7 foot wall. I don't know what cd player he used a source.


    The amps were cranking out about 30 to 40 watts a channel with transient peaks of 200 to 300 watts a channel at the SPL described above. Imagine having 1800 watts in reserve at this loudness.

    The sound was glorious ... rich, full detailed and life like. Gut impacting bass which did not mask the mids or highs. Imaging was very precise and there was great width and depth to the sound stage. It's really hard to describe the experience .. but it was one which I'll remember for a long time.

    Too bad I don't have 200 grand under my bed.

    good listening

    Larry




    Forte Is for sale .... price reduced

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    Hi ,



    I''m selling my pair of Forte Is and asking 300.00. I'm the second owner and bought them about 3 years ago.They are in fair to good cosmetic condition (thanks to ups) and sound great. They are located near the Reading PA and are pick up only. If interested you can email me at laurenc319@aol.com

    pictures are here

    www.starryforge.com/speakers

    Thanks



    Larry

    Colter needs Tubes

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    i have three three stereo rigs But I'll comment on two of them. Sytem 1 Thiel 2.3 spealers, Cary SLI signature amp and an Apollo cd player.

    System 2 a Scott 299c rebuilt by Craig as NOS Valves, Klipsch Fortes I's and a 25 year old Kyocera cd player.

    I played a variety of music, but the real test was the 4th movement of Shochocvich's 5' symphonay with wild dynamics and lower and highs at the limits of ordinary hearing. The 9000.00 system is upstairs and the vintage 900.00 system is downstairs. My wife and I and a number of friends listened to both systems playing the same Cd's. After an hour they said lets stay downstairs. I agree it sounded better, more musical and life like. I have to admit system I had more bite and attack in the highs, but there was no comparison in the Dynamics. Mid range equal in both. Bass better and chest pounding in system II.

    Vintage systems have a lot of clout and really give the best bang for the buck.

    Just my two cents worth

    Larry



    my Scott 299c arrived

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    Well first of all it's heavier then I expected. The gold face plate is stunning. I'm using it with my Forte Is and during some preliminary listening it sounds great. A lush rich midrange and precise treble. The bass is controlled and not flabby. Next few days I'll be listening to some of my reference cd's to put it through it's paces.

    The 12ax7's need replacement as all the other tubes are new. Any recommendations for current production 12x7s,

    Thanks

    Larry

    vinyl... 120, 180 and 200 gram ?

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    Hi folks,

    Thanks for the replies. I was listening to an old LP I have the Yale Quartet playing the late quartets of Beethovan. The set was issued on Vanguard Cardinal series in the 70s and are ultra thin flexiable disks and they sound fine. I jsut wondered if there was something I was missing.

    Larry

    Huge Thank you

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

    Posted

    My dad died in September of 2000. I am his only child and as he went down hill from cancer I brought him to live with me for the last 4 months of his life. I was working and could not spend the days taking care of him. After some discussion with him we opted for a nursing home near me so he could be taken care of while getting his radiation therapy for 6 weeks. He died 1 week after completing the therapy.

    On weekends I would pick him up so we could spend the weekend together. I live in the country, a lot of dairy farmers are around here and they grow a lot of corn. I'd be driving him home and he'd look at the corn and comment on how well it was growing and how green and beautiful it was.

    After he died, I woud pass the same corn fields on the way home and I could hear him talking. At first it filled me with saddness, he was gone, I am here.

    After a while, a few years, I would still pass the corn on the way home and the memories became sweet without pain. We all adjust with time.

    God bless your dad Craig, the pain will lessen with time and the memories will be sweet.

    Larry Citro

    I bought a ne Cd player, a Rega Apollo

    in 2-Channel Home Audio

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    after sitting on my duff and thinking about it for a year or two. I placed it in the living room system with the Forte I's and Cary SLI-80 and kept my Sony C701ES hooked up so I could compare them. I have two dupicate CD one of Monks and one of Miles Davis. I loaded one in each started them at the same time so they played within 1 or 2 seconds of each other and listened and flipped the selector switch between the two. I adjusted the level of the variable line out on the Sony so they played at the same loudness as measured on my Radio Shack sound pressure meter ( About 80 to 85 db).

    Bear in mind the Sony is about 13 years old.

    Did the Apollo sound good? An unqualified yes and I'm happy to have bought it. Did the Sony sound good, yes considering its age. As good as the Apollo? No.

    The differences were apparent quickly, but were not as large as one might suspect.

    The Apollo is a magnificent player considering its price. Very well balanced over the sound spectrum with very good deep bass and wonderful detailed mids and highs. The soundstage is deep and wide. The Apollo had the ability to present the music witout any harshness ( particularily in the upper registers ) that would occasionally leak from the

    Sony. Some high notes on a sax, trumpet or piano would sound strained and shrill and a bit painful to the ear with the Sony but completely natural on the Rega. The Apollo sounded like a good Analog system taking the info on a cd and presenting it in a very musical and eminentily listenable way.

    I think it's a great match to the Klipsch heritage line and highly recommend it.

    The old Sony while outmatched was not completely embarrassed but was outdone. Sony did things well 13 years ago and one wonders what their modern CD players sound like.

    good listening,

    Larry

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