Recent content by Ricalan

Years ago I read a magazine article describing how important it is to have clean and stable ac power available to your audio components. Made sense to me. But if you don’t have a purpose-built room with dedicated, individually shielded, low number gauge wire lines of minimum length from a...

Trust but verify. I have Monolith lll's. First I put two bricks (17.2 lbs) on each woofer shelf. Wow, that was all the verification I needed. So I drew a template, cut up some scrap 2 x 2’s and made a mold. $6.25 for a Home Depot 60 lb bag of cement, 97 cents for a can of flat black spray...

Hi Jonathan, Consider bi-amping with an active crossover? I saw that coming. Yes I am considering, but it’s quite a financial leap of faith. Two new sets of speaker cables (I’m bi-wiring); another set of interconnects; more power cords (I’m playing the retired-guy-on-fixed-income card). The...

Does this look familiar? I was a member about 7 years ago. The drive from the far side of St. Pete, was my problem. Being retired now, I'd like to try again. I remember really looking forward to hearing your Summits, but there was too much conversation that night.

1. Richard Y 2. St. Pete. Florida 3. Monolith lllP 4. 2004 5. 2006 ACI SV-12 woofer replacement. 2010 new stat panels. 6. Audio Research CD7 CD player Audio Research Reference 3 preamp Pass X250.5 power amp Shunyata Hydra (models 2 & 4) power conditioners Shunyata, Nordost...

Hi y'all, I've been an electrostat lover/owner since the mid 70s and finally moved up to ML 10 years ago. I'll post my system shortly. Looking forward to many hours of fun and knowledgeable reading.