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| Cardas Speaker placement.. The Cardas method puts your speakers very close together. Try the Vandersteen method, which in your room would put the speakers 2.9 feet from the side walls (1/5th of 14.5, measured to the center of the woofers) and 7.3, 4.4, or 3.14 feet from the... | |
| Dynaudio Focus compared to Vandeersteen 3a Sigs? I've owned the Focus 110 and 140 and Vandersteen's 2CE Sig II and 1Ci. I prefer the Vandersteens by a long shot for two reasons. First, over time I came to realize that both sets of Focus speakers were slightly colored in the midrange, making voic... | |
| budget speakers for Musical Fidelity A300 ? Second the idea of used Vandersteen 1C's. Damn good sound with a bottom end not many monitors can reach. | |
| Recommend using some fastener to speaker stand Blutack is rock solid, but when you remove the speakers do it by twisting them side to side to loosen the blutack's grip. Pulling straight up can rip chunks of the veneer off of a speaker. This happened to me with a cheap, vinyl-veneered speaker. ... | |
| Kef 205/2 I owned the Focus 140 a while back, and it has a slightly "punchy" elevated upper bass that makes it sound like it goes deeper than it does. Assuming that your KEFs are placed well, you might be hearing bass from them that's actually deeper but mo... | |
| Kef 205/2 This might be too simple, but check to see if one of the speakers is wired out of phase (easy to do, especially as you're biwiring the KEFs). | |
| speakers for a smaller listening room One more setup idea. Try placing the speakers halfway into the room with your listening seat right against the wall behind you. This'll make it a near-field setup, and the bass might even out without the ports so close to the wall behind them. You... | |
| Monitors for a small room - please help I'll fourth or fifth the Dynaudios. I have the Focus 110 and an NAD C372 integrated in a 13x18 room and have been very happy with them, including the very tuneful bass. They do have a warm but very natural sound--and you could do the above combo f... | |
| What CD player compares to NAD C545BEE? Check out the Rotel 1072--it goes for about $400-450 used and has wonderfully smooth sound. Build quality and durability are excellent. I had the same experience with an NAD CD player, too--a bummer, because I think their integrated amps are great... | |
| Best Song Intro Slash's intro to "Sweet Child o Mine." Bill Evans and Paul Chambers opening "So What." | |
| Best speakers for about $2000 a pair Vandersteen 2CE Sig II. If you have room for Maggies, you have room for them, and a used pair would be about $1500 or less. A great speaker. The only thing I didn't like about them when I owned them is their narrow vertical listening window. Great... | |
| Exposure 2010Sv NAD 375BEE Worth comparing?? NAD amps are good (I've owned a string of them) but not worth buying for the sake of the headphone jack. It's a convenience feature, but it's just not that good on the C372, and I'd imagine the C375 is about the same. I've used it with the AKG K50... | |
| Rega apollo v NAD 565 BEE comparsion Others? Sam T said the amp was fantastic and that the CD player was good but nothing special in comparison. | |
| I need your advice on system for a non-audiophile My first system was 1K and almost exactly what tpreaves describes (though with the equivalents of 13-14 years ago). If I had it to do over again I'd do the exact same thing. NAD integrated, NAD CD player (if she wants them to match; Oppo if she do... | |
| 1K used monitor with wide/uniform dispersion I want to thank everybody for their input on this search. After two+ months of working with the Spendors, they're still unfortunately just not working for me. If you look at the measurements in the Stereophile review (of the 3/5 and the 3/5SE) the... |