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The Audio Critic...

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mkuller

In Reply to: RE: Well, waiting for The Audio Critic was not among them! posted by M3 lover on July 17, 2010 at 15:18:28

...I, too, was a charter subscriber, having seen the ad in Audio and my letter was printed in the first issue.

Not long after that Richard Hardesty, who owned a high end shop in Huntington Beach, showed me a copy of TAS.

My life was never the same.

Follow Ups:

Havens and Hardesty. - free.ranger 19:52:15 07/17/10 (2)
Curtis Havens now owns a small shop in Tacoma; Advanced Audio. I bought my current set of Ayre electronics from him and his salesman, Bob McPeters. This is a comfortable shop, but you have to navigate down I-5 through Tacoma traffic, then double back on a frontage road. A neat trick, but a nice little audio shop to investigate.
- RE: more on Havens and Hardesty. - M3 lover 12:45:01 07/18/10 (0)
  Guess this week was one to remember past audio impressions.
  
  "Great googlie-mooglie . . . is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
  - http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/speakers/messages/29/297032 (Open in New Window)
- Yep, that's the place... - mkuller 11:15:22 07/18/10 (0)
  ...I discovered the Dalquist DQ-10s at the nearby Federated Stereo Store while on a couple of month speaker shopping odessey. That find pushed me into high end.
  
  Then I found Havens and Hardesty and used to hang out there.
  
  Bought their first DQLP-1 electronic crossover.
  
  Heard the Dayton Wright XG-10s there along with lots of new equipment and music.
  
  Hardesty used Boz Scaggs' "Harbour Lights" from "Silk Degrees" to compare equipment. I heard him compare the Dayton Wright Dreadnaught with a new ARC amp. After listening to this cut, he declared the ARC amp state-of-the-art.
  
  They also had the new B & W speaker, the DM-7, their first to use offset drivers to line up the voice coils (like the DQ-10). It looked like a pregnant robot but Hardesty liked them and bought a pair.

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