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| How cheap can you go and still be happy with the sound? The price of your equipment bears little relationship to the sound it may produce. While it may be a "general principal" that the more the equipment cost the better it will sound... it... does not mean there are no exceptions - there are many! I ... | |
| Magnepan 3.7i amp pairing What you need to do is grab an amp from Class D Audio to drive them until you can detetmine what you need. You can get one for $600-$700, or so, which will drive them very well, until you complete your search. I’m using the SDS 370 which drives m... | |
| Help with high end bookshelf speakers Got the H590 with M30.1 and M40.2 - definitely Harbeth!!! | |
| Why do Wav and Flac Files Sound Different? @jond "WAV and Flac sound identical to me and WAV just takes up too much space." DITTO! You can't tell the difference in my tests - years ago! | |
| Speakers On Wheels? Or… you can get a pair of LRS+ Maggie’s, which are “light as a feather,” and sound better than most anything out there (a lot like ESL 57’s)… and… avoid all of that! | |
| Seeking Bookshelf Recommendations By the way... if the LRS+ really is not an option... the best stand mount monitor / "bookshelf" speaker I think I’ve heard is the Legacy Calibre. It’s a semi-open baffle, dipole speaker that sounds a lot like the other Legacy speakers (e.g. Aeris,... | |
| Seeking Bookshelf Recommendations Regarding the size of the room... the LRS+ requires a room about 10 x 10+. Their sound is optimized in about a 7’ equilateral triangle with the speakers about 2’ from the rear wall. And, because of the small size and light weight you can move them... | |
| Seeking Bookshelf Recommendations I like several of these suggestions.- especially the Harbeths and the Magnepan LRS+. I’ve got both and a few more, but these are my choices. Of these I prefer the LRS+ because with the right electronics there are few competitors <10+ times its... | |
| Looking for the next level in imaging... Get yourself a pair of LRS+ with the right electronics and sit back and enjoy superb resolution, staging, and imaging until you find your solution. For an average sized room... "it don't get no better" than the LRS+... no matter what the price.... | |
| Heavy speakers: How to be able to reposition? All good solutions! But… I realized there were more considerations than just moving around the room after I ordered a pair of Aeris speakers for my lake house! After I thought about it a bit - I realized there were going to be a lot of other iss... | |
| SOUTHWEST AUDIOFEST 2024 So... why does TX need 2 audiofests? Lone Star AudioFest in June, and Southwest Audiofest in March???? Especially, when one is just getting started... with little attraction? What am I missing? | |
| Are there any issues with connecting speaker wire in this manner? The advantage of banana plugs (as others have suggested) is that they are much easier to manage and connect to the terminals... and... eliminate the possibility of damaging the terminal connection inside the amp (if the terminals rotate as you tig... | |
| ATC SCM150ASLT @noromance "I think the ATC are way overkill for PC streaming electronic music...." Most definitely! You don't need one of the best speakers available, unless you're wanting to reproduce the real, live sound of the best classical, jazz, blues,... | |
| Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!! @russbutton +1 re: the Linkwitz Orion's! While I like my Harbeth 40.2's and Legacy Calibre's - I think the Orion's (or the LX521's) may edge them out, when set up properly with the right room / acoustic treatments. The only other speakers I h... | |
| Electronics for Harbeths -- $5-10K As you likely know, Harbeth often drive their speakers at shows with Hegel amps and suggest SS amps to drive them. I was not pleased with the sound of my 30.1’s or 40.2’s until I got the H590 to drive them, which does an excellant job of controll... |