Resonance control devices

Many different tweaks of this nature have been available through the years, from Tiptoes (which I love, primarily because of the way they look under components) to Magic dots, VPI bricks, Sorbothane this or that, isolation platforms, whatever. More on this later.

I have found that if I train my cat Pogo (who actually is an audiophile) to sit in a strategic place on the subwoofer it lowers the resonant frequency by 8hz.

 Problem is, he wants to switch places halfway through the record. Told him, "Only if he buys his own cat food".

Another Craigslist treasure

 Met a nice guy Eric tonight, drove to Greece. Moving to Tennessee, good luck to him!


  Pioneer Elite TZ-f700 speakers, huge! Just barely fit in my poor little car! A lot of fun, not state of the art, but a welcome addition nonetheless. Powered 12'' internal sub, I dare you to find it! Cyclops eyeball towards the top, you can aim these toward the listening position.


If you Google these, you will find mixed opinions. Supposedly $3500. a pair new.


Will not work with early american decor, and your wife/significant other will probably hate them! Sometimes this alone is worth the price of admission.


 Designed by Boothroyd Stuart, a well known British designer from Meridian.He had two pairs of these, only bought one. Had I known how well they would turn out I would have bought both.

What's wrong with this picture?

 From the June issue of Stereophile.


  Emotiva ad, see anything wrong? you may have to click on this for a closer look.


 The gentleman is apparently listening to a CD, the preamp is set to "phono direct".


  Also, there is no cartridge mounted in the turntable..........


   LMAO!

R.I.P. Donna

  Donna  Summers died yesterday, so you think, "I'll play a couple of her albums tonight". You tweak, and you fiddle, switch turntables, dial a couple of dials and adjust the sub.

 No audiophile in the early '80s worth his or her salt didn't own this record! Great demo record even if you didn't like her.

Between Georgio Moroder's intense, driving synths and Donna's sultry vocals, this transported you to a different level-  even if you didn't like disco.

You know you got it right when you start crying- I did.

 Donna can never do this again!

I continued to be a fan long after the disco days.... spent hours and hours listening to her- both from the production values standpoint and the artist.

So unpretentious! Dissed the "Queen of Disco" moniker.......

Subwoofers

 Have had a variety, going back to the late  '70s with the original M&K 1a's (pair) with my Dahlquists and Magnepans, Velodyne ULD-15, and currently a Earthquake Supernova. As full range speakers go, most don't shake the room unless it's at the expense of accuracy. Always enjoyed the flexibility of a sub or two, even before it became a household word.

Celestion glass speakers

              AVS-302, made from Italian tempered glass, look really cool and image very well. As you can imagine by looking at them- not gobs of deep base. When used with a subwoofer, pretty cool.

Sonab

My absolute favorite cult speakers, Stig Carlsen was at one point committed to a Swedish insane asylum. Not sure whether it was before of after he designed these. The OA-14, pretty much the middle of the line pictured here,one of the models, I still have a couple of pairs today. One pair mint,fully restored, one not so mint.They all need refoaming, Peerless drivers including alnico magnet woofers and tweeters, the various models added multiples of these as you moved up the line. Real rosewood, high tech ABS tuned labyrinth enclosures underneath. Designed to be placed against the back wall, kind of went right where Bose went wrong, reflected just the highs instead of the full range.