luckydoggoldminer
Auditioning
- Joined
- Mar 7, 2009
- Messages
- 3
- Real Name
- jim king
IM NEW HERE BUT I WANTED TO PUT IN MY TWO CENTS WORTH. IVE BEEN AN AUDIO PHILE SINCE I WAS ABOUT EIGHT.IM NOW 49.MY FATHER WAS A BIG WIG IN THE SOUND AND VIDEO DEPT AT ABC,THEY CALLED IT MASTER CONTROL.HE HAD OLD 1950s JBL EQUIPMENT AND SHERWOOD TUBE STUFF.SOUNDED LOUD AND CLEAN. THEN HAD A CHANCE TO GROW UP NEXT TO PROFESSOR KEITH JOHNSON OF SPECTRAL AUDIO AND REFERENCE RECORDING FAME.BOY DID THAT WAKE ME UP. HE HAD ELECTROSTATICS AND HOME MADE WOOFERS .I THINK HE HAD CLOSE TO SIXTEEN 8 INCH DRIVERS ALL RUN OFF A HOMEMADE 1000 WATT AMP. IT WAS AMAZING TO HEAR A REAL BAND OR THE BEATLES OFF HIS AMAZING THREE CHANNEL REAL TO REAL.HIS PREAMP WAS AN EARLY SPECTRAL UNIT THAT HAD A FLAT FREQ TO PROBABLY 500K. I DROVE HIM CRAZY WITH MY STEREO OF THE WEEK DIET.WHAT WAS OK THIS WEEK WAS GONE THE NEXT AND THEN CHANGED SOME THIRTY OR SO TIMES.MARANTZ PRE AMP TUNERS WITH SELF POWERED SPEAKERS, KENWOOD SEPERATES AND THEN SAE STUFF.THEN YAMAHA SEPERATES AND MAGNEPANS ECT. I LEARNED OUT THE HARD WAY THAT IT WAS REALLY JUST ABOUT THE SPEAKERS.THE NEXT MOST IMPORTANT THING WAS POWER.LOTS OF CLEAN DC POWER.THEN SOURCE MATERIAL. A GOOD SETUP I HAD WAS A MAGNEPAN TYMPANI 1B,YAMAHA B2,AND C2.THE TURNTALE WAS A NEWER A.R WITH A DENON THEN A SLEEPING BEAUTY CARTRIDGE. GREAT TWO CHANNEL SOUND!!!THEN THE HOME THEATRE STUFF HAPPENED.THAT CREATED A MESS. I WOULD NOT GIVE UP MY COOL SYSTEM FOR THEATRE GARBAGE. SO I COMPROMISED NOTHING.I PURCHASED A YAMAHA B2X AND C2X AND SONY 608 ES CD PLAYER.THEN I BOT A SERIES OF YAMAHA INTEGRATED THEATRE AMPS THAT EVENTUALLY BECAME THE DSP A1.THE SPEAKERS EVENTUALLY WERE MAGNEPAN TYMPANI 4s and small MAGNEPANS FOR THE REARS. ALL THE WHILE I WAS TO BECOME BEST OF FRIENDS WITH THE LAST JBL SPEAKER DESIGNER OF THE ORIGINAL COMPANY BEFORE HARMON ...........WELL ...ANYWAYS HIS NAME IS GUY VERALRUD AND HE RUNS A COMPANY THAT DESIGNS HIGH END SPEAKERS.HE BUILT ME SOME WICKED FAST SUBS AND AMAZING CENTER CHANNELS. THE POINT I WANT TO STRESS IS THAT ONE MUST BUY THE VERY VERY BEST SPEAKERS ONE CAN FIND .EITHER NEW OR USED. GOOD LUCK FINDING ANYTHING NOT MADE IN CHINA.THAT INCLUDES VERY FEW SPEAKERS. POLK, BOSTON,INFINITY AND.JBL ARE AMONG THE MAJOR BRANDS NOW MADE IN CHINA. MAGNEPAN IS STILL MADE HERE IN THE STATES. THERE ARE OTHERS.THEN BUY THE BEST OLD YAMAHA OR KENWOOD,OR OTHER MID SEVENTIES JAPANESE SOLID STATE SEPERATES UP TO ABOUT 1980.THEN IT WENT TO HELL. SAE AND SOUNCRAFTSMAN AND PHASE LINEAR WERE GOOD BUT TRY FIXING IT TODAY.THE JAPANESE STUFF WAS WELL BUILT AND MEANT TO LAST.THEN YOU CAN BUY A HIGH QUALITY THEATRE RECIEVER AND USE IT FOR ONLY THE CENTER AND SURROUNDS. USE THE PRE OUTS FOR ONLY THE FRONTS IN CASE YOU WANT TO USE YOU HI FI SPEAKERS FOR THE FRONT THEATRE AS WELL AS YOUR HI FI. FOR YEARS I USED MY HIGH END AUDIO SYSTEM FOR THE MAIN SPEAKERS. MAGNEPAN TYMPANIS ARE THE BEST OUT THERE TO THROW A HUGE SOUNDSTAGE.ONLY THEY HAVE NOT BEEN MADE FOR OVER EIGHTEEN YEARS. SO USE THE FRONT PRE OUTS TO GO TO A SEPERATE AMP.USE A TAPE RECORD OUT ON THE RECIEVER AND INPUT TO TAPE PLAYBACK ON YOUR PREAMP.THIS WAY YOU WILL HAVE THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS.STILL HAVE THE HI FI AND TOLERATE THE GARBAGE THEATRE COMPRESSED SOUND ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE TOO. THE RECIEVER WILL DO JUST FINE FOR THE CENTER AND SURROUNDS.THANKS FOR LETTING ME PUT MY TWO CENTS WORTH OF ADVICE INTO THE FRAY