[BC] The actual quality

[DANA PUOPOLO]

The absolute best bang for the buck these days are Athena AS-B1 (or B1.2)
speakers.

These ported speakers will give you a taste of high end for under $200.00 a
pair. They sound even better if you replace the cheapo nonpolar electrolytic
caps in the crossovber with some good film caps from a place like Parts Plus.

Best Buy.com has them on slae for $142.00/pair. I bought mine from a Best Buy
store. They were the store demos (Best Buy now only sells them online). I paid
$64.00 for the pair. I use them with an old Advent 300 receiver (recapped,
biased and aligned). They sound GREAT! I only wish I still had a turntable and
some vinyl so I could get some benefit from the legendary Holman TT preamp
this receiver has....

-D



------ Original Message ------
Received: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 07:32:08 PM PST
From: Neal Newman <groucho at skyweb.net>
To: Broadcast Radio Mailing List <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] The actual quality

 It really does not make a difference about which speaker is Being used  
hence AR3's
 you can take the same pair Of speakers and place them in different 
rooms  and with each Room they will sound different...
when I buy speakers... sometimes I bring  an Eq, generator and RTA with 
Me... once the guy thought I was nuts  when I asked him to make sure the 
Room I was listening In was  referenced. he had no Idea I what I was 
talking about.  I made arrangements with him  to listen after hours...
we went into his so called  Speaker/stereo display room with  a sliding 
glass door.
 I picked a set of speakers. then Referenced the Room with the 
pink/white noise generator./rta.
 after the room  was referenced... we then tested other speakers... 
Before the reference.some sounded better than others...  after the 
Reference we determined some speakers that  resonated  at freqs  that we 
really didnt like. people  Buy stereos with Eq's  but have No Idea what 
the Eq is really for.

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