Revamping the Speakers Page in the Audiophile’s Guide to the Galaxy
A lot of the Audiophile’s Guide needs a facelift - most especially the equipment racks and turntables, not to mention the categories that are still empty.
But the Speaker category is now down to 8 speaker manufacturers, and if it continues in the current direction it will be down to 6 the next time I get near it with the delete key…And one can forsee a future in which the last standing manufacturer gets the axe - all because the current approach is flawed in a number of ways:
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It does not take into account that some speakers from a manufacturer are really much better than other speakers from the same manufacturer
It does not take into acount the different goals for a system, each separate goal possibly arriving at a different ‘best’ speaker.
It does not take into account room size and other possible constraints that affect the choice of ‘best speaker’
The new format will try to take these things into account by:
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Listing speakers instead of just manufacturers
Adding categories to represent the different goals systems (people) have like ‘Impressive’, ‘Emotional’ etc.
Taking into account small, medium and large room sizes
Not sure how we are going to organize all this data yet. But we are working on it.
Then we can add manufacturers like Sonus Faber and MBL to the list of best speakers - as they do have privilaged places in the speaker world - with respect to very specific sonic goals - just not at the top of best of the ultimate.
January 28th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
Hello,
the ’speaker catagory’ is very nicely done. i’m looking foward to its evolution. do you think it’s possible that you would add ’second tier’ speakers that are in the lower price ranges. do you even listen to lower priced speakers? lol..
January 30th, 2006 at 6:54 am
Hi Ben,
We have to stop meeting like this, people might start to talk …
Well, we will try to recommend multiple speakers in each category, but exactly what constitutes a “lower price range”?
Most of the manufactureres in the current list of top speakers do make speakers in the low thousands to 12 thousand or so that are really pretty good - though in the lower price ranges it is rare to find a *full-range* speaker that sounds any good.
Listen to lower priced speakers???? Me? Not if I have a choice - life is very short and one might as well enjoy it to its fullest now because it has a tendency to end before we are ready for it to.
Or are you just poking fun at my $500 Yamaha active pro monitors I have in my office? Yes, yes, I am trying to find time to upgrade them too…
January 31st, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Hi,
here is a link to some ess type speakers you probably already know but just in case..
http://www.audio-intl.com/en/index.html
June 15th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Audiophile website Vintage & New.
Phil Mundi. Iwata Horn Producer.
http://users.pandora.be/philmundi/index.html
http://users.pandora.be/philmundi/vend/vend.htm
February 1st, 2008 at 11:53 am
AGI Model 511 preamp. Would anyone have any info or instructions for this Audio General Inc. preamplifier??
November 15th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Hi Bill,
I have an AGI Model 511A preamp for sale on Ebay right now. You can see the specs listed. It comes with a manual of sorts. They didn’t have the manual ready when I bought it.
It’s a great sounding peice of equipment!
October 11th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Sir, I need to service an AGI pre amp model 511. One of the resitors was badly heat damaged and impossible to make out the code. I would like to find the service specs for this pre-amp. From what I have seen on the web they made this model for 14 years. Someone out there in cyberland should be able to help me with this quest: Remember its all about V=IXR
October 11th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Hi Michael,
Try posting your questions to AudioAsylum.com. Someone over on one of their forums should be able to help you.
Best of luck!
Mike
November 24th, 2009 at 1:34 am
I have an AGI 511 preamp with manual and specs.
January 8th, 2010 at 2:14 am
Sam,
could you be so kind to e-mail me a copy of the manual?
I live in Italy and it’s almost impossible to get one….
my e-mail
sparagagna/at/virgilio.it
Thanks buddy!!!
January 26th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
Horn-Academy Belgium
JBL-Westlake-Iwata-Fostex
http://horn.hebfree.org
February 4th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Why could I have come up with this spoof off of Hitchiker’s Guide??? Well done. Made me crack up and almost caused me to enter Zaphod as my name (or maybe Ford).
Keith Forrest
TheAVLink.com
The community for home audio and home theater.
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May 28th, 2010 at 9:00 am
Sam,
Saw your posting last year that you have a manual and specs for the AGI 511. Could you possible email me a copy also to Charlie8521@aol.com. I want to go in and modify the one I have.