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| Please Recommend Highly Efficient Floor Standing Non-Horn Speaker Suggestions An audiophile friend just bought a pair and is raving about them, unbelievable bass, extended highs, super efficient need only 2-3 watts to drive them. A couple of caveats though; packaging from manufacturer is not sufficient and speakers being he... | |
| Speaker Variety / Interim Recommendation I can add a few more to check out, Usher Mini-Diamond 2's, Triangle line of floor standers, Fyne stand mount and floor standers, Spatial Audio floor standers, and Legacy Calibre stand mount. | |
| King Crimson Also listen to Thrak it has been remastered on CD and 200 gram vinyl. Excellent album with the triple double lineup. There are some great songs on it. | |
| Who still listens to their First Generation Cd Players? Still using a stock Philips CD-80, a heavily modified Magnavox CDB-650 by Euphonic Technology, a stock Magnavox CDB-650 and a later Resolution Audio CD-50, all sound very nice and so far working great. | |
| Fyne Audio - Anyone heard lf it? If anyone is in the Rochester, NY area or surrounding cities, Forefront Audio is a dealer for Fyne speakers. He has a few of them on display that can be heard. | |
| Best CD player from this list I would stay away from the Bryston BCD-1 player as they have been problematic, no parts are available for repair and the transport tends to malfunction over time. Two of my friends have them and they are now boat anchors. | |
| Tube preamp: Cary SLP-03 vs Schiit Freya+ Just a couple of things, the Cary SLP-03 preamp is tube based and has balanced ins and outs, I have owned a couple over the years in both black and silver faceplates and it is a good preamp but is prone to some glitches, cheap plastic remote contr... | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment I have to say that the addition of the Isoacoustics Gaia II's to my Usher speakers made a huge improvement to the overall sound of the speakers and system. Also the addition of a Canare 75 ohm BNC terminated cable used between my word clock and c... | |
| Desk top speakers at low cost I can second the comment about Andrew Jones designed Pioneer bookshelf speakers they have curved cabinets, are a two way and sound remarkable for their size and price. | |
| Pathos integrated amps Logos vs classic mk 3 Meant the Pathos Classic mk3 | |
| Surge protector or power conditioner? The line of Equitech balanced power conditioners are really good and the Son of Q can be found used for a decent price. Has many outlets and can control your whole system. I use mine for everything except the amps. | |
| Isoacoustics Gaia III for Focal Aria 936s my next tweak? Just acquired a couple sets of the Gaia II's and carpet spikes for my speakers and they transformed them considerably, top is much more detailed, mids are more pronounced and sound more realistic and the bottom end tightened up quite a bit more. C... | |
| A solid tube photo stage around 1500 A friend of mine just got a Musical Paradise all tube phono stage built in China. He says that it is a great tube phono stage for the price and sounds real nice. Priced under $1,000 with shipping. | |
| Digital Cable... anyone compare Canare lv 77S to I can mention that I have tried quite a few 75 ohm cables with BNC ends between my sacd/cd player and word clock like Audio Research, Audioquest, Wireworld and the 75 ohm cable that is made by Canare hold its own and is quite good for around $50.00. | |
| Speaker suggestions under 4k Look up some Usher speakers, the older 6371, 6381 and 6391 were killer speakers and great bass, the newer Usher Mini Diamond 1 and 2 are more refined and sound great from top to bottom and won't break the bank |