MeloManiac

Bizarre... Do you happen to live close to the ocean. Could be saline cristals forming. Or it reacts with a cleaning solution?

Cal, Knopfler. The movie is about the difficult situation in Northern Ireland at the time, a Catholic teen falling in love with an older, Protestant woman (Helen Mirren), or vice versa, can't remember exactly. I read the novel once, and watched the movie when it was on tv. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_(novel) Lots of flute, and a deep Irish drum in some tracks, and Knopler's guitarwork, of course.

On Every Street, I happened to have ordered that one today, on cd. Together with DS Live at the BBC, 1978. This is Knopfler's 1983 Local Hero. With strong celtic influences, some nice guitar distortion too.

Amazon HD is in Europe only available in the UK and Germany. Qobuz and Spotify are availabel all over Europe. I have Amazon Prime (for video) and they are messing up things with subtitles, languages and audio sync. Compared to Disney+ and Netflix, Amazon Prime is one huge disappointment, both in content and technology. Here in Europe, language setting and subtitles and audio tracks are really important. If you mess that up, you leave a bad impression.

Is that the Family plan?

Most of it is marketing blah blah. A well recorded, mixed and mastered album will sound fine, no matter what format it is or carrier it is on: vinyl, cd, 320 mp3 etc. Health issues are another matter, of course. Here it is the speaker that specifies the final output. Most klipsch speakers won't go below 35 Hz, so it shouldn't be a problem for ultrasonic lows and highs.

Welcome to the forum! I'm following because I'm curious about the opinions you will get. I would say: enjoy the music!

'Love over Gold' has always been my favourite Dire Straits album! In fact, allow me to share a very personal story about this album. When it came out, I got a copy on cassette tape from my sister's boyfriend. This made it special, because this was music *I* had discovered by myself, not through some friends. It was my introduction to Dire Straits. This was, in fact, the first step in my personal, musical journey. At the time, in the 1980s, 'Love over Gold' was one of the first 'popular music' albums that came out on CD and I made a promise to myself that, one day, when I could afford it, I would buy that CD! CDs were very expensive then, and a cd player cost €1.000 So, as the years passed, I collected all Dire Straits albums on vinyl, and much of Knopler's movie scores too (Local Hero, Cal, The Princess Bride), but I skipped 'Love over Gold', though it was my favourite album... I loved their live album 'Alchemy', which also was a great success commercially, and had many 'Love over Gold' songs on it with great, extended guitar solos. So here is what I bought over the years on vinyl, back in the 1980s: Dire Straits Communique Making Movies (Love over Gold) Local Hero Cal The Princess Bride Alchemy Brothers in Arms I stopped buying Dire Straits albums after Brothers in Arms, because to my feeling at the time, they had become too commercial, and the music was too pollished. Last year, at age 51,I decided to buy all Dire Straits albums on CD, Love over Gold included, and to fulfill the promise I had made myself back when I was a 15 year old teenager. I bought Alchemy Live on blu-ray. One album is missing in my collection, 'On Every Street' (1991). Which I will buy soon, I'm sure. I'm still enjoying their music, perhaps even more. I find it astonishing that their Dire Straits sounds sounds so good, I mean 'audiophile grade' good, being their first album ever.

Those H3 are a good deal. And they are compact floorstanders.

Do you have a specific reason for the H3? Why not choose the H4? Many will argue they are the best of the series.

The eponymous Dire Straits album, 1978.

I find it remarkable that the TD125 is so different in design and price, compared to the TD124.

What makes these TD124 and TD125 so good?

Wow, these speakers have a lot of potential! As for the capacitors and the crossover, they seem to be in quite a good state, as far as I can tell from the pictures. IMO, you should first listen to them for a while and enjoy them like they are, and perhaps hook up some different amplifiers (eg a tube amp), until you find their 'sweet spot'.

From the era when the Belgian frank was still the currency... Cost 10 euro...

Welcome to the forum! I own a set of 1972 Heresies. I was lucky: they were visually in good shape and only some oil and beewax was needed to bring them back into a shiny state. I was advised here to recap the crossovers. This is an easy job to do yourself, even if, like me, you are inexpirienced in soldering. The cost of new capacitors is really low, in fact, I paid more for the postage than I paid for the capacitors themselves. I kept the original caps. You never know... One of the decisions you'll have to make is this: do you go for a 'purist' restoration, your goal being sticking close to the original design and sound, using original components (as much as possible), or do your follow the upgrade path (improving the crossover etc with Bob Crites components, for instance). It's your set of speakers, so you are the boss. You decide. Sometimes, emotions run high on this forum, but there is a treasure trove of knowledge and experience as well, and kind people reaching out too. So don't be intimidated! It is always a good idea to post some pictures as well, to document your progress.

I think my Leben CS300 is pretty old school, not? But it is not a receiver....

One of the advantages fo the H/K630 compared to the H/K 430 is that one can use it as a preamp.

That Marantz hurts my ears now, I can no longer listen to it...

After moving some equipment around, I hooked up the Rp160m + Harman Kardon 430's twin engine for the first time: this is a low frequency monster that needs contour (loudness) turned off...

The Beatles' iconic white album...

Gear used? Cartridge?

I remember reading about the limitations of Windows when sending audio files over to an external amp. Depending on the type of connection, the version of Windows, and the application on Windows used to send it to the amp, your amp may receive a scaled down data stream, not a 320 file. Can't remember the details, though. There is more about this here: https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/how-does-windows-handle-audio-device-sample-rate-and-bit-depth.9587/ So perhaps your pc does some nasty things with your 320 k files, while it leaves the 128kb file alone.

Qobus.com magazine publishes gear reviews from time to time, and they tell it the way it is... Here is a clip about the low frequencies of The Fives: https://www.qobuz.com/be-nl/info/Hi-Fi/Bancs-d-essai/Klipsch-The-Fives-A-pair-of-active183344