In Reply to: Nice summary posted by Charles Hansen on June 25, 2017 at 15:52:13:
...although I hate to admit it.
I had just discovered high end audio and bought a pair Dahlquist DQ-10s when his first issue came out - they were his reference loudspeakers along with the electronic crossover and woofers.
Of course I bought those, too.
Then he rated the Rappaport PRE-1 as the best preamp. I was talking to a salesperson at Jonah Millers in downtown LA who said he wanted to sell his so I bought it.
Aczel said the best amps he had heard with his DQ-10s were the Quatre Gain Cells.
Quatre was located in the San Fernando Valley about an hour away and I saw an ad in the LA Times Audio Section for a sale they were having - I drove up and bought two of them.
So I was using Aczel's bi-amped Dahlquist reference system until the next issue of TAC came out when he traded in the DQ-10s for LS3-5as.
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Follow Ups
- I was strongly influenced by him as well... - mkuller 17:22:27 06/25/17 (22)
- The shop where I worked in college - E-Stat 06:25:22 06/27/17 (1)
- DQ10s - hifitommy 20:23:54 07/11/17 (0)
- RE: I was strongly influenced by him as well... - morricab 01:39:24 06/26/17 (17)
- An even bigger influence... - Charles Hansen 09:49:07 06/26/17 (15)
- RE: An even bigger influence... - morricab 14:03:44 06/27/17 (0)
- RE: An even bigger influence... - Rob Doorack 08:07:36 06/27/17 (11)
- RE: An even bigger influence... - John Atkinson 10:39:54 06/28/17 (9)
- What does any of this have to do with Peter Aczel? - MikeCh 19:28:17 06/28/17 (8)
- 'death thread" like wow. death thread.. that is funny as hell. nt - 3+4=5 13:15:19 07/06/17 (0)
- RE: What does any of this have to do with Peter Aczel? - FSonicSmith 09:26:30 06/29/17 (0)
- RE: What does any of this have to do with Peter Aczel? - John Atkinson 07:36:33 06/29/17 (2)
- Stereophile eulogy for Aczel?? - jsusky 11:21:59 06/29/17 (1)
- RE: Stereophile eulogy for Aczel?? - John Atkinson 12:04:59 06/29/17 (0)
- What does any of this have to do with Peter Aczel? - mkuller 20:39:42 06/28/17 (2)
- "Actually some people here have said nicer things about him than I would have thought." - MikeCh 21:21:20 06/28/17 (1)
- Two...(nt) - mkuller 21:55:21 06/28/17 (0)
- And a CD player... - mkuller 19:25:11 06/27/17 (0)
- I knew J. Peter... - mkuller 19:07:29 06/26/17 (1)
- i also met Enid... - hifitommy 20:41:24 07/11/17 (0)
- Kool-aid? - mkuller 08:20:03 06/26/17 (0)
- RE: I was strongly influenced by him as well... - Charles Hansen 23:34:30 06/25/17 (1)
- DQ-10s... - mkuller 08:24:01 06/26/17 (0)