Jack. wrote:
On Mar 22, 9:58 am, wrote:
Jack. wrote:
On Mar 22, 1:37 am, wrote:
On Mar 21, 11:46 pm, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:32:15 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:
On Mar 21, 10:30 pm, Boating All wrote:
Yep, When a friend of mine got out of the service in '76, he decided
he wasn't going to fool around with buying a cheap stereo and upgrade/
replacing as the time went by so he bit it and spend a crap load of
cash.
At the time he had a 200w. McIntosh MC2205 amplifier,a Technics
Quadraphonic receiver, an Italian made Leesavox turntable,and 4 cone
drivers (Ohm"F" models.) if i remember correctly he said those
speakers were about $400.00 each in 1973 or 74 ( I can't remember).
For the day it seemed beyond fantastic.
I still have a pair of those big honking Sansui 1970's disco speakers.
Everyone keeps trying to say these new book shelf speakers are as
good, until I crank them up.
I have them out in the Tiki bar now and they are enough to fill the
whole pool deck with big old thumping sound. I do try to be sensitive
to my neighbors but most of them will be back in Michigan in a couple
of weeks anyway.
"There's no replacement for displacement"
I've been looking around for some speaker for my shop, and would like
to find a set of those, or something similar. They do pop up at times
on craigslist. I have a late 70's Yamaha integrated amp and matching
tuner that I'll use to drive them.
Having said that, some of those "bookshelf" speaker systems can be
*very* nice sounding. The displacement thing goes away when you add a
subwoofer to the equation. I'm running a set of NHT speakers as mains
in the surround setup in the den. They are small, but Audiophile
magazine rated them class C, borderline class B speaker. They sound
better than many speakers that are 4 times the size and cost twice as
much, or more, and are wife-friendly. A friend with $10k worth of
Aragon amps and Magnapans always raves about how great the NHTs are.
I love my magnaplanars!

I never really cared for them. While they have a very open soundstage
and are great for opera, orchestra and light jazz or chamber music,
they have too many negatives otherwise.


That's pretty much my musical choices: opera, orchestra, folk, chamber
music, blues, small jazz groups and "rock" groups like the Eagles. I've
got a good subwoofer wired in, too. My NAD amp is not a superpowered
model, maybe 125/150 watts a channel. Good clean sound, without any of
the surround sound multi-channel gimmicks that do not give a going to
the concert sort of experience.