[Vintage-Audio] Re: Help With Gear Specs, Please

Wed Nov 30 20:31:54 EST 2005

Hi Bob,

I never debate your experience, as you generally are on the mark. But Bob,
these Advent that I have are that good? Are you

Duane W8DBF
sure the model I have is the one you speak so highly of?
----- Original Message -----
From: "wolfbob" <wolfbob at csnsys.com>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back"
<vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re: Help With Gear Specs, Please

> The Pioneer CD player is no better than some $29 thingy from
> walmart. It may work, but...
>
> The Advents will go down to 40-30Hz and do it so well that
> your JBLs will blush. There just isn't much interesting in
> music below 40 Hz anyway. remember that the JBLs are ported
> bass reflex and the Advents are acoustically loaded sealed
> boxes. Makes for very clean bass.
>
> WBob
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
> To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975
> back" <vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 3:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re: Help With Gear Specs,
> Please
>
>
> > Hey Bob,
> >
> > Good to hear from you direction!
> >
> > Why forget the CD player? Problems with this model? Or?
> >
> > It is for my fourteen year old grandson, by the way. DBF
> > already has two
> > high end single units by Sony and Yamaha!
> >
> > I am not a sub-woof woof fan either! A woofer is a woofer!
> > I can control
> > what signal it receives by the crossover frequency. If it
> > will handle from
> > 200 Hz down to 20 Hz, and do it efficiently, why would I
> > need anything else?
> >
> > Now I am running good speakers, not  some dinky satellite
> > system thing that
> > is supposed to emulate the concert sound of a real live
> > concert! Because
> > they use "four inch", sometimes a huge six inch, 'woofer',
> > yea, they need
> > some help! I think the phrase is "bass response"!
> > Otherwise you get a Woof
> > that never made it to puberty and got a low voice!
> >
> > Duane W8DBF
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "wolfbob" <wolfbob at csnsys.com>
> > To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from
> > 1975 back"
> > <vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 11:06 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re: Help With Gear Specs,
> > Please
> >
> >
> >> Duane..
> >>
> >> Forget the CD player..the Yamaha is a very good receiver
> >> for
> >> a solid state of that era...not up to your Macs
> >> though...However, the Advents are well worth refoaming.
> >> These are some of the very best of the acoustic loaded
> >> speakers that Henry Kloss designed. I have a pair that I
> >> use
> >> for mid front and mid rear in my office and they are
> >> astoundingly flat and have a very clean bass. I don't
> >> believe in sub-woofers except for special effects, not
> >> music.
> >>
> >> WBob
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "rick larson" <rick at mnbrewers.com>
> >> To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from
> >> 1975
> >> back" <vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 12:33 AM
> >> Subject: [Vintage-Audio] Re: Help With Gear Specs, Please
> >>
> >>
> >> > Duane,
> >> > I didn't see any responses for your request and I
> >> > really
> >> > don't know much about these.  However, here are a few
> >> > comments.
> >> >
> >> > I've read the Yamaha is pretty nice.  Great tuner.
> >> > Some
> >> > like the STK power brick IC.  They are cheap to replace
> >> > if
> >> > they go out.
> >> >
> >> > I have a pair of original Advent speakers.  I reconed
> >> > them
> >> > for <$30.  Not familar with the 2002 model.  Refoaming
> >> > was
> >> > pretty easy but not sure if that is something you can
> >> > do
> >> > or you would need to hire it out.  Too bad you don't
> >> > live
> >> > in Minneapolis.  I'd refoam them for you.
> >> >
> >> > If it was me and I had a room that needed a system, I'd
> >> > use the Yamaha, refoam the Advents, might use the sub
> >> > and
> >> > throw away the cd player.  However, your Scott gear is
> >> > lovely and would be my personal favorite.
> >> >
> >> > rick
> >> >
> >> >>     Hi All,        As some of you know, my home was
> >> >> damaged by water getting into the attic and
> >> >> causing a sudden and very destructive water leak on
> >> >> top
> >> >> of my
> >> >> den/office/computer control room desk on September
> >> >> 28th.
> >> >> The contractor who did
> >> >> the repair work sent his supervisory guy out here to
> >> >> be
> >> >> sure the guys doing the
> >> >> work were doing it up to the contractor's high
> >> >> standards.
> >> >> Tony and I got to
> >> >> chatting when he saw some of my stereo gear.    Some
> >> >> doctor had left behind some stereo gear when he sold
> >> >> the
> >> >> house to Tony
> >> >> three years ago. Tony discovered it in the garage
> >> >> attic.
> >> >> He had no use for it
> >> >> and offered it to me. I accepted it "as is"        I
> >> >> have
> >> >> no manuals and am not familiar with the speakers at
> >> >> all.
> >> >> I would very
> >> >> much appreciate your opinion as to the value, quality
> >> >> and
> >> >> cost of repairs Vs
> >> >> value of item. Thanks.       PIONEER MULTI PLAY
> >> >> COMPACT
> >> >> DISK PLAYER.  MODEL: PD/M510. APPEARS GOOD
> >> >> COSMETICALLY.
> >> >> BUT THE SIX CD HOLDER TRAY IS MISSING. IT SLIDES INTO
> >> >> AN
> >> >> OPENING WITH A SPRING
> >> >> LOADED DOOR. CAN I FIND ONE ANYWHERE? DOES NOT APPEAR
> >> >> THAT I CAN PLAY A SINGLE
> >> >> CD WITHOUT IT.
> >> >> AMPLIFIER/RECEIVER: YAMAHA NATURAL SOUND CR/1020. WOOD
> >> >> CABINET, WEIGHS ABOUT 40
> >> >> LBS, OUTPUTS FOR SPEAKERS A,B,C NO MENTION OF SURROUND
> >> >> SOUND THOUGH. HAS AM, FM
> >> >> AND FM STEREO. LOOKS BEAUTIFUL AND APPEARS FULLY
> >> >> FUNCTIONAL.
> >> >>
> >> >> BDS: BDSW15 15 INCH BOTTOM FIRING SUB WOOFER IN
> >> >> BEAUTIFUL
> >> >> WOOD 18 INCH SQUARE
> >> >> END TABLE. NO COVER OVER SPEAKER ON BOTTOM, FOAM
> >> >> SUSPENSION IS A LITTLE SOFT,
> >> >> BUT IT PLAYS WELL. THIS THING WEIGHS 45 LBS!
> >> >>
> >> >> ADVENT: 2 WAY SPEAKERS. TWEETER WITH 12 INCH WOOFER.
> >> >> FOAM
> >> >> SUSPENSION IS GONE.
> >> >> MODEL: 2002  AB014073
> >> >> CABINETS ARE BEAUTIFUL, GRILLS ARE GOOD, ORIGINAL
> >> >> BOXES.
> >> >> THEY WILL HAVE TO BE
> >> >> RECONED. ARE THEY WORTH DOING?    I apologize for the
> >> >> upper case, which is suggestive of a variety of
> >> >> negative
> >> >> things, so I am told. But I keep all of my notes in
> >> >> solid
> >> >> upper case because it
> >> >> is easier for me being totally blind to find material
> >> >> by
> >> >> searching without
> >> >> having to be concerned about 'case sensitivity'.
> >> >> Again,
> >> >> thank you for any assistance you may be able to
> >> >> provide.
> >> >> Duane W8DBF   dfischer at usol.com
> >> >>
> >> >
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