Hadn’t seen those and I’ve been looking everywhere for JBL 4311 stands.

While I’ve got JBL stand people here does anyone know where you can buy the curved metal ones like this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageaudio/comments/twpz8j/speaker_stand_for_jbl_4311_b/

https://www.audioscope.net/images/pioneer_cs_53-1.jpg

I’ve seen them lots of places but never for sale.

Speakers have generally become smoother, more 3-dimensional and much smaller. This means that they are less dynamic on the whole and rather toy like compared to good stuff from the 60s and 70s. Unlike electronics, miniaturization is not a good thing with loudspeakers. There is no substitute for size and horsepower. Nothing much has changed with the laws of physics in the last 100 years so what it takes to make dynamic life-like sound is unchanged. There have been some advances in magnet materials and a bunch of progress in adhesives but not much else.

~Greg Timbers, JBL legend

As I sit here in awe of my new to me JBL 4311 speakers I have to agree. I’ve never heard anything remotely as good as these.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/everyday-life/electricity-cost

You can use this calculator to calculate how much it costs to leave your equipment on. Get a Kill-A-Watt and measure it. Many amps use about 40w idling.

If your energy is 13 cents a kWh that is $45 a year. In ten years you could buy a new amp.

A 10 or 8” speaker isn’t where you want to be for 20-30Hz. There’s no replacement for displacement. I don’t think you can even begin to touch that range lower than a 12” woofer, unless you are talking something really exotic like Carver Sunfire subs that have huge excursion capability.

https://jblpro.com/en-US/products/sub18

I use a sound level meter to make sure they are close to the same.

The Mark Levinson system in my Lexus has a clarity to it I’ve never experienced in a car stereo. It changed what I thought about Mark Levinson audiophile amps and all that. I’d like to hear a Mark Levinson home system someday.

99 dB efficient speakers and a 140w amp, that should be causing permanent hearing loss before it clips. Definitely a faulty unit or a stray wire somewhere.

Gorgeous.

They are red.

More seriously, they are harder to plug and unplug so if OP is ever on audio life support it will be hard for them to unplug his audio system.

Sometimes the audio subs now seem like a price check service for people that don’t know how to Google. :)

/r/listeningspaces would love to see this. Amazing room. Glad I got to visit it in this photo.

https://products.bose.com/pdf/customer_service/owners/901_guide.pdf

The manual is here. You need to use the tape in and out on the Kenwood.

It could be that they are both bad and unlistenable. That’s how I usually feel about modern amps.

My new policy to avoid accumulating junk is to sell it now and if I need it later I can always rebuy it. Money doesn’t take up room. I find that usually I don’t need to rebuy the stuff haha.

I don’t mean to be weird but are there people that think cd transports that give digital data to a DAC sound different? How would that work? I know about jitter but really how much could it do?

My main goal is to make a system that I want to sit down and enjoy each night. I’m finding that vintage gets me there. Do I like listening to distortion? Maybe? I got the class D Aiyima A07 Max recently and I’m sure it measures incredible but I couldn’t get it out of my system fast enough. So boring and without life. I keep discovering this over and over with class T and then class D amps. I don’t know why I keep doing it to myself.

There’s no medal for having ultra low distortion amps that you never even want to turn on. I’m sure my AV receiver measures awesome too but it is almost unlistenable with music. Yet I go to the vintage store and the Marantz etc. just rolls out the beautiful sound I want to settle down, listen to and enjoy. My gf’s Pioneer SX-737 makes me want to sit there and listen.

Whatever you do, please don’t use a soundbar.

So they can make more money.

Just go with what you like and sounds best to you, that’s really the only rule for a hobby like this. It’s very likely you’re hearing has changed with age and that’s fine too. Look at the graphs here.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(21)00040-7/fulltext

But even if you were 18 and liked that non-eq curve that’s perfectly acceptable. Don’t listen to what someone else or some dogma says you have to do. We like what we like!

I love the vibe of this room.