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In Reply to: Speaking of 1974 posted by E-Stat on February 12, 2011 at 09:10:38:
"A Threshold Stasis 3 used to drive double New Advents in my garage is so much better sounding."
I use a Nakamichi that's pretty similar and like it.
The only D-150 I've heard was decades ago at my brother-in-laws place when he was in a downsizing mode. It was fed by a matching preamp, IC-150? and I thought it sounded horrible but tactfully didn't mention it as he liked it.
Around '72 they built a combination planetarium/Imax theater in Balboa Park in San Diego. I watched a show and the sound was wretched, it's one of those things that has speakers (expensive ones) all over behind the screen. I happened to catch a tour for donors afterward despite not being one and got to go all over 'behind the scenes'. I kid you not, in the sound room they had a wall of DC-300's, probably 'A's. Apparently they used a channel for each speaker. About six weeks later we happened to go to the planetarium at Griffith Park and while we were waiting for the show to start I of course noticed that their speakers were the ESS/heil pyramid shaped home models. The had three or four on a shelf in each corner. At the time my home speakers were ESS towers driven by a Citation 12 and I was having problems finding a location where they integrated well. So considering how super the speakers used in San Diego was supposed to be and how horrible it sounded I had little hope for essentially the same home speakers that I was having problems with on plywood shelves.
Well, the sound was fabulous, beautiful. The speakers really came into their own in the large space and sang. I don't know what amplifiers they had as a convenient tour wasn't at hand.
OK, enough nostalgia. But did I mention... I think a lot of us have been interested in this stuff for a long long time and I have about a decade on you, oddly enough it doesn't seem to get old, there's enough new things and new things being discovered about old stuff to keep it fresh for me.
Regards, Rick
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- RE: Speaking of 1974 - rick_m 02/12/1119:48:37 02/12/11 (2)
- The ICK - E-Stat 19:58:26 02/12/11 (1)
- RE: The ICK - kerr 10:58:00 02/14/11 (0)
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