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  1. jeffreybehr

    Anyone have Sound Lab electrostatic speakers? I Searched...

    ...but couldn't find anything but a question on PCs for SLs. I've had electrostatic ('EL') speakers...Quad 57s, 57s paired, 2905s, AudioStatic somethings...and other open-baffle panel speakers over the decades, and I'm again fantasizing about buying speakers that create a larger soundstage for...
  2. jeffreybehr

    Another best-ever listening experience

    Happens every halfyear or so...when the moon, planets, and stars align, the electricity is purer, it's very quiet in the house, I'm ready to sit and do nothing but listen and love the music, etc.. The music this time was Gustav Hosts's The Planets, Suite for Large Orchestra, one of my...
  3. jeffreybehr

    Vandersteen Seven Mk.IIs and M7-HPA monoamps

    Have found and purchased pairs of these and will be retrieving them starting tomorrow nite. Unfortunately they're in NJ, 2500 miles away, but they'll be in my musicroom Sunday nite. Great prices and help from an apparently VERY nice fellow who is downsizing and moving to Colorado. Anyone...
  4. jeffreybehr

    Any experience with Vandersteen Kento Carbons? I'm considering going back...

    ...to V'steen speakers.. This newish Kento, with all-three front-panel drivers being current, premium carbon designs, plus the two side-firing 9" powered woofers/subwoofers fascinates me. https://www.vandersteen.com/products/kento-carbon
  5. jeffreybehr

    Any experience with 'AcouPlex', reviewed in https://gy8.eu/?

    Interesting review.. Anyone tried it? https://gy8.eu/review/casting-a-spell I've dabbled in vibration control in my systems and have sort of given up on expensive footers, for example, having Herbies Tenderfoots under most equipment but also some IsoACOUSTICS footers under the pre/pro and...
  6. jeffreybehr

    HHR's Walsh-type-driver full-range speaker systems

    This weekend I traveled to Cleveland to meet Dale Harder, owner/operater of HHR Exotic Speakers.. Dale has three redesigns of the Walsh-type drivers that he builds into systems.. Two are full-sized single-driver systems called the TLS-1 (with 12" driver) and TLS-2 (with 18" driver).. Here's a...
  7. jeffreybehr

    Anyone have an informed opinion on German Physiks 'omni'directional full-range speakers?

    I'm seriously considering a pair of GP's Borderland IVs in satin Walnut Cluster and with outboard crossover.. I expect to biamp them with my fabulous-sounding, substantially improved 140-into-4 Atma-Sphere MA-1s on MR/treble and my PS Audio M700s on the bass.. I've read many reviews of them but...
  8. jeffreybehr

    What has happened to Kara Chaffee and DeHavilland?

    I understand Kara retired, but did someone take over the business?
  9. jeffreybehr

    Salamander lowboy gear stand

    It arrived this afternoon, drop-shipped from Salamander... https://www.salamanderdesigns.com/av-cabinets/synergy-model-147/ ...and shipped via FedEx Freight.. The two men were courteous and happy to carry it into my musicroom, and each received a nice tip.. The 'shelves' are heavy and 1-1/8"...
  10. jeffreybehr

    Ron and Steve, how about a Single-Ended-Triode subforum under Amplifers?

    Seems there's enough interest.. If you create one, you could transfer the SET amp owners thread to it.
  11. jeffreybehr

    Problem with powercable running on or along hard walls?

    While reading comments about audioquest's Fog Lifter cable lifters, one writer observed that powercables running ON or against walls causes the same negative effects on the music as laying them on carpeting.. I had never heard that before. Anyone experience such a thing? and hence NOT run their...
  12. jeffreybehr

    Have pair of A-6000s coming from England

    11k$ is not bad for a pair delivered to me; I could find only two pairs available in the world! The amps are power-transformered for 220/230VAC; I'll be converting a 120VAC dedicated branch circuit running into the musicroom into a 240VAC* circuit and a US-spec. 20-amp 120V./ 240VAC...
  13. jeffreybehr

    AudioQuest SorboGel Q-Feet; any experience?

    It took a couple decades, ie I came late in my life as an audiofool, to start using isolation devices under my equipment to isolate them from vibrating furniture and the concrete-slab floor(1) and to absorb their own vibrations.. Since then I've used many Herbies Tenderfoots and starting a few...
  14. jeffreybehr

    What does the 'SA' part of Premier 140SA mean? (NT)

    (NT)
  15. jeffreybehr

    "WB" is the abbreviated symbol I use for 'What's Best...' in my browser's header

    But I'm a fotografer, and every day my tiny little brain sees that and thinks 'white balance'.. Oh well... Here's my latest hi-rez system. It's a Panasonic S1R, a full-frame digicam with 47MP.. The attached lens is a Leica vario-Elmarit 24-90/2.8-4, which is highly resolving but rather heavy...
  16. jeffreybehr

    And now it's the MA-1s in the system and with fewer output tubes

    I believe most A-S owners understand that their amps can operate succesfully without some of their output tubes (OTs) as long as they're removed in left-half/right-half pairs.. My MA-1s are now operating quite well with only 2 pairs of OTs per amp instead of their original seven pairs...
  17. jeffreybehr

    My MUSIC-and-movie system

    Been building this one for at least 60 years, and because I'm now 75, I think it'll be my last. The room used to be a flat-ceilinged 21x14-foot living room, but in 1982 I turned it into a 21-foot-wide, 19-foot-deep music room with a ceiling rising from 6-1/2 feet at the front wall to about...
  18. jeffreybehr

    Reinstalled M-60s in the system, driving Serenity Super-7s

    Yes, the Quad 2905s are off-duty while the Super-7s are on-duty. Ran this combo for a couple years until early last year when the bass-amp's noise annoyed me enough to remove them--speakers and bassamps and M-60s.. Knowing that the bassamps would have to work correctly for me to sell the...
  19. jeffreybehr

    Oh-m'-god--bought a pair of MA-1/3.1s thru USAudiomart.

    https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649467350-atmasphere-ma1-mk-31-amplifiers/ If that $16,900 retail price is correct, my delivered price is only 38% of RR.. The seller was anxious to get them OUT of his house and shipped them yesterday.. I expect these will sound a bit more 'comfortable'...
  20. jeffreybehr

    Improved some parts in my Atma-Sphere M-60/3.3 poweramps

    After determining a few weeks ago, with Atma-Sphere's Ralph Karsten's help via e-mail, that both my M-60s work just finely after I replaced a fuse, I've had them driving my Quad 2905s for a couple weeks. They've sounded plenty powerful enough and plenty good enough. Now that they were running...

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