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It doesn't work like that! That's why exist professional equipment.... audiophile is just for home use ☺

New subscriber here. What power amp would be a good match then? Thanks.

Superbly built.

The reason Hi Fi hasn’t improved is because the equipment has been more capable than human hearing is for decades. We can’t hear minuscule distortion. Even if it measures better by a few decimal places we can’t perceive that. Audio electronics have been a solved problem for a long time and transducers can never be perfect, especially when taking their interaction with the room into account.

I'm a true vintage fan and I would definately think those BC1 would pancake the other speaker A4

Love the UT shirt. 🤘 Hook ‘em horns!!

Absolutely fantastic review! I have long term floorstanding speaker project what is almost done. Completely DIY. It has 4" Vifa full range playing 300-10 000 Hz (small closed box in the main speaker) and Nokia/Harman 6.5" playing 40-300Hz in the main 36 liter bass reflex box. Now why I wanted this design was the midrange & treble from that small Vifa driver. All I can say is that I have had a lot of good standmount speakers in my room and they have been mostly ok. Good but not causing any goosebumps what it came to the midrange. That small Vifa driver is just perfect to my taste. It has very simple crossover to filter everything under 300 Hz away and that makes it sound even better. 6.5" bass driver is just there to produce bass what was very thin with the Vifa previously only in separate bigger bassreflex box. So my main point is that in my opinion small 2-way speakers trying to do everything can cause midrange clarity issues. That is the whole reason why I made my speaker like it is. I watched tons of your videos and I have a lot of same opinions.

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Too high sounds good the parts where Stevie Wonder is not singing 😂

Great advice... when it comes to vintage audio you know your stuff. BTW, I have a pair of mid 70s Radford 3-way speakers that use the same Goodmans woofer as your display speaker.

Good video. My tips, speakers are the most important (after room acoustics). If possible get a high efficient speakers (used or new) like a Klipsch Heritage series (horns and compression drivers). This way, you can focus on low but good quality wattage amps and still get good volume and keep the dynamics even on low volume. I have compared low efficient speakers and mega wattage amps, its not the same. Low wattage amp's sounds the best on the actual real word wattage use most people use daily. DAC's and cables are the lastyou need to worry about. Also, room acoustic is very important, actually even more important than the speakers depending on the situation. Currently running a fleat watt class-a, amps, both on solid state and single ended tube amp👍

“Speakers, think big” I love that advice :0)

I agree there is no magic in cables, it’s an easy money spinner for dealers, I use Amazon basics in my system and yes I have tried fancy expensive silver cored cables, they don’t make a difference.

that was like the biggest ramble of non information. no specs and the one spec of speaker size mentioned was wrong 🤧

Buckets of good common sense missing in many other CZcams channels and, yes, big speakers usually sound better than small book shelve ones where, more often than not, you'll need a sub to get a fuller sound.

Finally an intelligent reviewer!greetings from geir in Norway!

Wow - that was both informative and entertaining . I think without soundproofing our living room ( live in Victorian semi so have to be sensitive to neighbours) I’m never going to fully enjoy the system I have so I continue to hope our next move will allow full engagement with system.

I guess what you meant was square meters and not feet?

too long not specific TLNS: so it’s a crossover issue w the mids being kinda lousy and then the highs are rolled off in the tweeter.

i mean music sounds great in the day honestly. just stop and listen it’s not really different it’s about focusing on something

I have the emotiva B1 Plus bookshelf speaker gorgeous sound so I got the B2 + and it sounded like garbage no definition in the base and the trouble was not as brilliant and detailed and yes cables do make a difference course but probably the most important thing is that you have to get a good surge protector that does not interfere with the electrical output from the wall socket that could totally dead in your sound the sound quality

I recently did a shoot out between 2 receivers - my Miraculous Sansui 4000 ('71, 40 wpc) vs a Pioneer Sx 650 ('76 , 35wpc). The Pioneer sounds louder at lower volume levels. I didnt play either higher than 1/2 volume - mostly, a little higher than 1/4. the Sansui was just a bit warmer and had delicate detail. The Pioneer was very good, but just a bit harsher on vocals and electric guitar. once again, the Sansui 4000 won out. I would be interested in your take on these. I would get a 4000, the 5000 sounds too much like the Pioneer. Neither one has had any upgrades and are original. Enjoyed the tip about Man overboard - sounded good on both systems - good point source stereo imaging. I use both White Bird and Hot summer days by Beautiful Day as test songs. If you can get the vocals, and violin smooth and not harsh, you have an exceptional Amp.

A musical hoover ! : ) My Goodmans XB 45 and 25 sound fab .

Agree with you 👍 Especially in the cables department.

Avoid gold plated connections Make your own speaker cabs

My frugal Dad was a hard working blue collar worker that enjoyed music. His first nice system was a Sansui rack setup for $1,100 plus a Sony CD player for $400 in 1986. In today’s money that’s $4,300. You can get a pretty killer system for $4,000 these days.

Funny to see your picture, as I too have a pair of TANNOY T125 speakers. And a PIONEER SA606 amplifier, n WOW don’t they sound great to together.

That Blondie track is a hidden gem. Never heard it before. Nice one, Kelvin 👍

Thought you swore at 1:09😂😂😂

7:33 Radford made so great speakers in the 60's, others too..

Thanks for this. Common Sense isn't entirely common anymore.

Streaming tip - use higher video res on CZcams ( under settings) to get the best Audio quality. 720 to 1080 is best Quality. 1080 is a bit crisper in treble. I run my computer, which has a deent sound card, into my Aux or tape in on my amp. Works great!

I like to use old Extension cords - usually real copper and had a bunch laying around. 14 to 16 gage, and marked for polarity.

Hi Kelvin from Portugal! In moment you said something i understand just like, the new small speakers don't live and the sound stay "inside" the speakers. Will this aspect pass with new floorstandings? All the best. Pedro

Hi again Kelvin. Have you ever had chance to listen Beovox S60 or M70 ? Need some supprt your impression. Thanks.

Thanks for the video. This might be a dumb question but I have never used a power amp before. If I had two NAD 3020 amps, could I use one as a pre amp and the other as a power amp together? Thanks if anyone can answer!

Very good advice about the new stuff!!

My iPhome 10 DAC is good enough for me when compared to expensive Chord DAC. My kit is vintage Linn & KEF. Be happy, save money, enjoy!

Audio reproduction is a lot simpler than video. Our hearing is also a lot less discriminating than our vision. It's simply the case that audio electronics, at least from a sound reproduction standpoint, was a solved problem by the 1980's. Consumer electronics in the 1970's was basically limited to TVs and stereos; these days there's a lot more gadgets competing for your cash. Not a lot of people want large speakers dominating their living rooms, so manufacturers do what they can with small speakers / soundbars and subwoofers. You can't beat physics, though, so it's not surprising that at a set of older speakers with 12" woofers will sound better. Most home speakers won't have spent a lot of time being pounded at top volume, so generally don't 'wear out'. The main issue is more likely to be disintegrating foam speaker suspensions, where used.

Agree so much , cone surface ...I use JBL 18" ...drums sound realistic without seeing the cone move ...so no linear distortion from too much cone excurtion ....feel the bass instruments tactility, bassmotes of piano ...noises of woodenfloor in opera.....and high efficiency....to give uncompressed dynamics....without clipping amplifier into distortion ....at least if I want to listen at realistic musical instrument soundlevels ...I played those instruments and if I want the goosebumps , I miss them at lower level ....love your presentations ❤❤❤

I have large vintage wharfedale speakers and they do give more of a wow factor in terms of scale. I do find that they struggle with some modern bands and also deliver less details than my smaller q acoustics.

Thank you you have confirmed my suspicions about Hi-Fi all along brilliant stuff,

You may say that about cables and I always wanted to believe this, but my mate brought over some cable talk stuff and I swapped over my bundled interconnects and 79 strand type cable with them and there was a significant difference, which dismayed me. I messed around with the cables, not wanting to believe it, and even found that I needed to have both the ‘better’ interconnects and speaker cables to make the difference. So I wasn’t going to pay out for expensive cables so went out and bought some decent audio coax cable and some coax RCA phono plugs and some similar speaker cable from Quad, for a lot less money, and found that I got similar results. I later found that speaker cables do make a difference, but not necessarily because they have exotic materials, but just in how they are constructed and how it affects capacitance, etc. Like that flatline stuff is pretty sharp sounding, and twisted two core mains was ok but not great, and my amps didn’t like the thicker stranded cables. So now I just always use 2.5mm stranded clear sheathed Van Damme speaker cable (I think PMC recommend the 4mm version for their speakers) , which is reasonably priced, and also Van Damme interconnects for where I am not digital.

I couldn't disagree more on "use any power cable, you wont get any benefit". As with everything, some willingness to research and try things is all it takes. I was incredibly skeptical about power cables and related tweaks, as it doesn't make intuitive sense. But I reasoned that it was worth trying for myself, rather than allowing internet discussions for me... Only my hearing can tell me what I can hear. I have found that the approach to use cables to "add something" is quite erroneous, and big, thick stranded cables, which are often the recommended direction, actually make things substantially worse, unless you only want giant distorted bass at all costs. Try instead the approach of viewing the cable as a point of loss, and accordingly, pick cables that are designed to reduce losses, if you want to gain the most meaningful benefits. I cannot recommend enough qed's cables that have geometries to reduce proximity and skin effects, if you value time accuracy and low distortion. Their power cables in particular, built in this way, are a seriously good bang for buck experience

I disagree somewhat about getting a bigger speaker . I have a pair of boston acoustics. They are 10 years old.their drivers are only 6 inch and i find it hard to get better sounding speakers. My Boston's are model cs 260". Anyone with me?

There is ONE cable I know of that makes a jaw dropping difference I have tried many dozens of cables over the years. Almost none of them were cheap. Cables all have their own unique sound, which is not that obvious, unless you play a recording that you've heard 100 times over the years, & are "Oh so familiar with." The cable is MH 770 Ultralinear II speaker cable made by MIT. Designed by Bruce Brisson, the guy who started Monster Cable many decades ago. There was such a black background that you could hear subtleties and nuances that were obscured before. The bass sounded way fuller & much deeper. It sounded like it was defying physics. But the most impressive thing is that the instruments sounded 50% bigger.The only time I ever heard such a thing, was from a few certain high end amplifiers which have extraordinarily big transformers. The soundstage was enormous too and everything had a velvet smoothness. Original retail price was $5,000 for an 8' pair. They WERE their top of the line cables You can find them used on ebay & elsewhere, sometimes for a bit under or a bit over $1,000. They have an overriding sense of warmth though, and your system will need to have l a control to dial down the warmth region, or be a very bright system that badly needs more warmth. All other cables only made moderate improvements overall, over a $200 baseline cable I used for comparisons. A 10% improvement is clearly audible and easy to hear. It was about 5 times that with this cable.Bruce Brisson really knows what he is doing.

The reason I believe that good hifi hasn't changed much sonically is because of the switch from analogue sources to digital sources. Just as analogue was coming good, digital comes along and has to go through a similar improvement and upgrading path as far as dac's and upsampling is concerned, the higher it is, the smother the curve and the more detailed it sounds. Thing is that digital is looking to recreate a clean sine wave... like analogue does, so the proverbial dog has ended up chasing its own tail, ergo, little sonic progression has taken place. In the late 70s, Audio manufacturer QED brought out a revolutionary 79 strand clean copper loudspeaker cable that bettered 2.5 mm twin and earth mains cable. It sold for 80 pence a metre and sounded far superior in both treble and bass delivery to the mains cable with it's contaminated copper wire and less flexible nature. Glad you're back Kelvin, mate.

Biggest speaker you can afford? Absolutely wrong advice. I tried loads of big speakers in my modest sized room and was overwhelmed by booming, big speakers need lots of space around them in a large room to work in a large room. Enter a pair of small Proac Response DB1 speakers, these sound as big as any floorstanders I've tried with far superior control, limaging and detail Speakers are room dependant so maybe you should have added that. I disagree about cabling as well. People who say cables are snake oil have more than likely changed theirs over the supplied liquorice strips to something a liitle more expensive .

I spend 25 for interconnects, and 100 for speaker cables. Just a bit better quality then romex,

Ahhhh brings back the memories!! My late father had a similar amp, but from 1981, with Celestion DL6s. The joy of Herb Alpert or Buddy Rich playing Large in the Room!!! 😁😁