Please educate the noobie...

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jpdylon

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I have heard this acronym thrown around almost everywhere, and yet no one has told me what it means

TOTL
MOTL

I know the T is Traditional and the M is modern, but what of the OTL?

I'm in the dark, the noob need education! :stupid:

Thanks...
 
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TOTL stands for Top of the Line

MOTL stands for Middle of the Line.

Refers to where a particular component fell in a manufacturer's product line in a given model year.
 
"BPC" is Black Plastic Crap, something to be avoided like The Plague...you might see that abbreviation here, as well.-Sandy G.
 
Ahh, BPC! I been wondering about that.

What's Kabuki? I think I can tell a little from looking at it, but I'd like to know how the term came about and its real definition.

Thanks for starting this thread..."Everything you wanted to know about Special AK Words but were afraid to ask."
 
"Kabuki" refers to really ugly Japanese kabuki actors, the ones with the white makeup. Really, really ugly.
Tom
 
The fun you can have here is amazing. Who ever thought education of such phrases could fill me with such laughter.

I'm going to remember these. Thanks to all for the input. Feel free to give more...

I used to have some Kabuki, sansui SP-2000 i think. They're long gone, sounded muddy.
 
9 pics for greg

WOW My 200th post! Sorry if the pics are crappy....

My Listening room has become a workshop for now. I do work for family and friends for extra money on the side. Eventually I'll repaint, but up some dampening material, and go back to the way it was.

The pics don't to my 9s justice. If they weren't 130+ pounds, I'd take pics in daylight.

My Sansui 9001 is on the bench for now, and I don't have anything else to drive the 9s with (hence the advent /3s) Driving them is a sansui G-2000 that just got off the bench. Someone I work with already bought it for 60$ Under thatis what used to drive the advents, My Pilot 240 tube integrated. The Rat Shack TM-90 is a surprisingly good tuner with excellent sensitivity and selectivity, fairly good image rejection too. If you can find one of these, grab it.
 
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Next paycheck, and I'll get the sansui working again. Right now I've got to pay off Mike Zuccaro for a bias and hum balance adjustment on my scott 233, repairing my scott 350 tuner, and aligning my pilot380 tuner. I do miss the 9s, but between work and school I don't really have more than maybe sundays to listen to them.

You can bet when I get the sansui up, my neighbors are gonna hate me :D
 
A "Kabuki" speaker, refers to a speak that has more marketing histrionics than audio concerns. If said speak has umpteen drivers in it, of varying sizes & random placement, it's probly Kabuki. If it has a graph w/a bunch of indecipherable hieroglyphics about Frequency Response printed somewhere on it, yeah, we're talkin' kabuki here. If it has an LED display, and/or some big ugly plastic/chrome piece on it to supposedly help it dispense audio, or bears an unnatural resemblence to yr kid's Transformer, uhh, yeah..in short, if a speak is designed to make a 14-yr-old kid get all hot 'n' bothered, yeah, it's KABUKI. Bring a 10-foot pole, if you wanna touch it...<grin>-Sandy G.
 
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