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| Best Small Floorstanding Speaker under $2K There are some superb alternatives in your price range - the best available in the approximate order would be:1. Pure Audio Project Open Baffle Speakers - Trio 15b (a bit above your price range, but sound as good as any speaker available no matte... | |
| Best Preamp - NO preamp... (?) Yes... the AR Ref preamps look like they're among the very best available. I've got the Ref 3 and Ref 5se... and... they are incredible - though, as I noted above, I am surprised at how good the Creek Passive Preamp sounds in comparison for a pit... | |
| Speakers sonically similar to Sonus Faber? Though they might be a bit too transparent, clear and detailed for your preference, the WaveTouch Audio Grand Tetons are about "as good as it gets" at any price / style of speaker.Many are selling their high priced / high-end, brand named speakers... | |
| Speakers in the 5-6K$ region & their components Well... yes... you can approximate the stellar sound of the WaveTouch Audio Grand Tetons with the GamuT Reference Series, or Nola’s, or PureAudio Project OB’s, or the top of the line Legacy’s, or certainly the Linkwitz Orion’s / LS521’s. But, noth... | |
| Speakers in the 5-6K$ region & their components "With all due respect" - this is all "such a load of BS!" It's the total design of the baffel, cabinet, drivers, and cross-over that makes the "sum of the parts" sing like nothing else... or... not. I absolutely... guarantee you... that if you t... | |
| Best Preamp - NO preamp... (?) It does, indeed, depend on each person's personal preference.I have both and use both active and passive preamps, at various times, depending upon the sound I'm seeking.I got a Creek OBH-21 Passive Preamp, primarily to use as a remote volume contr... | |
| Do we really need anything more than 8" woofer and 1" tweeter for medium size room? Yes - I not talking about HT movie watching bass or heavy rock bass - just jazz, blues, country, classical, r&b, acoustic bass.I really don't want my floors and walls to shake - just the sound of a live upright bass, or bass guitar, or live dr... | |
| Do we really need anything more than 8" woofer and 1" tweeter for medium size room? Well... you'd have to experience it to understand it. Yes - they do sound as good as virtually any of the full-range speakers out there. I've compared them. Read the reviews - people are replacing their Wilsons, Avantgardes, etc. with these. A... | |
| Do we really need anything more than 8" woofer and 1" tweeter for medium size room? I guess this is more of a designers thread than listeners thread. All I know is - I’m sitting here listening to some of the biggest, best sound I’ve ever heard coming from the diminutive Wavetouch Audio GT’s with a 5+ in. bass driver... and... the... | |
| Need Small Bookshelf Speakers With a Big Sound Too bad about the LS50’s they are superb! I rather like their appearance.But... another alternative... which also sounds way, way bigger than they are... and... superb in all respects, rivaling the "best there is," regardless of size (in a modest ... | |
| The most transparent speaker cable Where do you buy these?No such thing as final anything in high end audio. I have got rid of all my expensive speaker cable ( MIT, High Diamond 8, Auditorium 23 and Nordost) and replaced them with cheap Western Electric 16 gauge speaker cable. $1... | |
| Need Suggestions for speakers up to $15K new/used I should clarify... when I mention the GamuT's... I mean the RS series with the "guitar strings" - their design makes a huge improvement over the other GamuT's. But... way, way too expensive - you'd never recover the investment, if you ever decid... | |
| Need Suggestions for speakers up to $15K new/used No question... the one’s that get the best reviews... and the one’s I’d choose in this order are:1. Linkwitz LX521’s (agree with above post)2. Linkwitz Orion’s (agree with above post)3. PureAudio Project’s (probably my first choice)4. Nola’s5. Gam... | |
| Do we really need anything more than 8" woofer and 1" tweeter for medium size room? Get yourself a pair of these... and... you'll end your search and your questions. Very few speakers sound better at less than 10+ times more money. Truly phenomenal sound, which rivals the best there is. Not my opinion - the opinion of many, ma... | |
| Is upgrading pre worth it? Fortunately, the Creek OBH-22 seems to match most of my equipment pretty well - so, it is a bargain for me - though, I’ve not tried it with all of my various speakers, amps and sources. Not an EE but, I agree - Impedence, gain and current matching... |