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Last October I got both Covid-19 and the Flu vaccines. But I didn't get the RSV shot. When I spent all of November and part of December in the hospital, I was asked often about that. I was always very glad I did get those shots. Last Monday, I got the most recent Covid-19 shot, and I...

Ahh … if I only had that kind of stamina! In the rehab hospital, the Physical Therapy staff didn't include any exercises for that. They had a well equipped gym, including an old car to practice getting into and out of. But I never saw any green indoor/outdoor carpeting that could work as a...

Both the Covid vaccines and the many various influenza vaccines have been clearly shown to work. They don't always prevent infection, but they do lessen the most severe symptoms including those requiring hospitalization. With the elderly and immune compromised, this has been critical to their...

A mere child.

Several things I want to mention: Bass The Salk Veracity ST has two 6" mid-woofers mounted in a mass loaded TL cabinet. The bass F3 is measured at 34 Hz. The Salk Song 3 Encore has a 9½" woofer mounted in a ported reflex cabinet. It's bass F3 is 25 Hz. The Song 3 Encore clearly goes lower...

Just before Dennis sent a pair of his BMR Monitors on their first road trip, I heard them at my house. Dennis brought them over because he said bass in my family room sounds so good. So, for about an hour we listened to both. It was my impression that the BMR Monitors sounded noticeably...

Thanks for making my morning visit to AH a lot of fun.

You may not hear any differences between those two ribbon tweeters. In Dennis's hands, they will sound surprisingly similar. With your Song 3s and the BMR monitors, you are probably already familiar with that. In the Salk 3 3-way speakers, the mid-range driver allows a higher crossover...

The Song 3 Encores are not a bad speaker! Salk couldn't make a mass loaded TL cabinet for those 8" woofers without it being enormous. You will find some differences in sound between a 3-way and an MTM 2-way. But like most of Dennis's designs, they sound more similar than different, especially...

Dennis said this about the Veracity STs. https://forums.audioholics.com/forums/threads/salk-sound-is-closing.127645/page-2#post-1613010

In 2012 or 2013, I was at the CAF audio show, when I heard the Joseph Audio Perspectives, with same Seas Excel mid-woofs and a very good Seas Excel dome tweeter. I liked them, but at the time, they cost over $13,000! Later that day I dragged Jim Salk & Dennis Murphy to the Joseph Audio room to...

They're not finicky about room location, at least not in my room. The bass was good even when they were close to the wall behind them. My AV receiver, 125 wpc, is enough power to drive them. But, I drive mine with a separate amp, 200 wpc, that I had before the Salks. It's more than enough...

I just noticed this post. Did you get them? Congrats! :)

Those look very much like Salk Veracity ST speakers. How do I know? I have a pair. Those strips of solid cherry or maple along the front edges are standard on the VST. Also, note the size of the mid-woofers vs. the tweeter. They're Seas Excel W16 Magnesium/Aluminum 6" drivers, expensive...

Any speaker that costs enough to make you consider robbing a bank or taking out a second mortgage makes you wonder about value. In another 20 years could you sell them for 10% of their original price? Probably not. There's far more value in keeping them to use as coffins after you die. Those...

Amana, like so many other American appliance makers, is now owned by Whirlpool. "In 1997, the company was purchased by Goodman Global (now part of Daikin North America), a heating-and-cooling manufacturer which sold it to Maytag (now part of Whirlpool) in 2002. Goodman still owns Amana's air...

We'd all like to see that. I'm with you on the good enough vs. state-of-the-art debate. For many years, my SongTowers were good enough. For $1,500 (at the time) they were fabulous. As I approached retirement, I wanted to treat myself to what amounts to STs with better, much more costly...

I haven't heard either speaker, so take what I say as only general comments. I suspect that you might be happy with either speaker. And, I certainly cannot compare them to either Focals of Dynaudio. I have speakers (Salk Veracity STs) with the same or very similar RAAL ribbon tweeters. Got...

It's great to hear from you. Yes, I do love those 'learning moments'. Sometimes I worry that I can sound too 'teachy preachy'. But more often, I don't :rolleyes:.

Yesterday, my oncologist agreed with my earlier thoughts after my most recent CT scan. In years past, advanced metastatic Stage IV lung cancer was a sure death sentence. Under the right circumstances, it now can be treated well enough to be thought of as a chronic disease. Something I can...