avanti1960
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| Piega loudspeakers Listened long to the Coax 511 towers, retail $15.9K. The only speaker with coaxial ribbon midrange and tweeter that I am aware of. Remarkably transparent with excellent imaging and sound stage. A touch of high frequency artifacts but not too ... | |
| Joseph Audio Perspective2 vs Harbeth SHL5+ The Harbeth SHL5+ can sound beautiful and never nasty. Beautiful and of course slightly colored because of cabinet resonance and forgiving voicing. Move on to amything else and you might miss those aspects as I am currently struggling with. | |
| Help me spend $6000 Spendor D7.2 Audio Note AN J | |
| Can a set of Ls50 metas surpass or equal a set of Kef blade metas with subwoofers strictly on output level the blades win easily. however for sound quality at moderate volume i prefer the LS50s. the SQ of the blades was disappointng to my ears. | |
| Higher sensitivity - more dynamic sound? Having owned less sensitive speakers and high powered amplifiers, e.g. 84db and 86db with up to 300 WPC, they could not match the dynamics and spontaneous pop of more sensitive speakers. Even with lower powered amps, e.g. 25 WPC, a set of 90db ... | |
| 6sn7 tubes and Schiit Freya + just keep the stock tubes. you schiit buyers are driving up the cost of NOS 6SN7s! | |
| DAC diminishing returns @dsfreeh DAC chips definitely have reached the stat of diminishing returns. However when you buy a DAC (or CD / digital player) you buy much more than the chipset. You buy an analog amplification section that converts the digital output into a... | |
| Up to $4000US tower speakers for Jazz and Classical Music Monitor Audio Silver 500 7G. (this exact model- no others) Read the reviews! $3200, stereophile Class A. | |
| My last Integrated Amp: $5-10,000? Are you sure you want an integrated amp? For your budget you could put together a better performing system with individual amp and preamp. Especially a quality tube preamp with class A solid state amp with no power tube short life or heat headac... | |
| Step up From Rogue RP-5 @robnpg i have had the cary audio slp 05 for a year and a half and just love the sound. does everything well, works with tube or ss amps. balanced ins and out. buy from cary direct and you will have plenty left for a world class phono pream... | |
| Step up From Rogue RP-5 what is your bujet? | |
| Step up From Rogue RP-5 @audibleguy yes, i had the RH 5 strictly as a linestage and absolutely loved it, should have kept it. extremely dynamic, neutral and transparent with a big tube soundstage. using the balanced connections sounded best. switchable gain was ver... | |
| Advice from Audiogon family - best speaker $3k-$4k Your B&W are a perfect match for the McIntosh amplification. However they can be a little stogy in the midrange. Another excellent match with Mac amplifiers are the Klipsch Heritage. The Forte IV sound excellent paired with your amplifi... | |
| Need Recommendations for a pair of Speakers around $1,000 These PSB towers do it all- massive no sub required bass, near horn like sensitivity and dynamics, coherent imaging and sound stage. I have not heard or owned a better audio value than these. https://nationwidestereo.com/product/psb-imagine-x2t... | |
| Mixed Brand Pre-Amp Power Amp Pairings that Work Many times better sound than two of the same brand. I tried the same brand approach for elegance's sake and it wasn't that great. For me Cary Audio tube pre, Pass Labs Class A power. Amazingly good. |