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| Understanding low-frequency reproduction....room or speaker davehrab, thanks for that excellent post. This is where I get confused...I don't have a technical background so I while I enjoy music and audio equipment I don't understand the technicals as well as most of you do. Nonoise's post made sense to m... | |
| Understanding low-frequency reproduction....room or speaker @nonoise Thanks for the input, I think I was surprised given that the speakers don't have big cabinets - they're really just slightly oversized monitors - and they're out into the room away from the walls, and toed-in so that even the rear firing ... | |
| Anyone Using Harbeths with Grilles off? Entirely speaker- and room-dependent, in my experience. Not the same speakers, but my Wilson Benesch Arcs sound the same, grills on or off, so I leave them on for protection. On the other hand, the grills on my BMC Purevox can have a bit of a b... | |
| Proac response One SC or Proac response D15?? The D15 is a great speaker - I almost bought a pair way back when - but so is the 1SC. If you like the 1SC right now, and all you need is some low-end push and weight, I like needfreestuff's thinking above about adding a REL sub. I have one, and... | |
| Everyone is selling their Ayre QB-9 DSD's?? Could just be more people coming to terms with the fact that the sound quality difference between a $500 Dac and a $3500 Dac is very small relative to upgrades like better speakers or adding room treatments and they're just going to put a bunch of... | |
| B&W 'New' 800 Series I'm aiming for 6D sound in my room...it has to have width, height, depth, it has to warp time so I have two Saturdays every week, it has to further the laws of quantum mathematics and allow me to move through my house at the speed of light, and it... | |
| Best DAC for pcm files Lots of good suggestions already - enough to keep you busy for a while. But, frankly, ignore those claims that you should ignore an entire class of DACS (Delta Sigma). If someone wants to suggest that a particular brand doesn't execute their DAC w... | |
| B&W 'New' 800 Series This thread has become shameful. It was started as an invitation to discuss the improvements to the new B&W line, and to share comments about the aesthetics and how people feel about them. Bo has taken it completely off the rails, and it has d... | |
| Speaker upgrade I'm going to piggyback Paraneer's recommendation - you have to hear these in person because they're very different.I just did a dealer demo of the Olympica III and B&W 802D3 (not the 803, but close enough) last weekend, both in the same room a... | |
| Somewhere in Time Soundtrack versions & tape hiss? Hey Mapman, thanks for the response. Yeah, that's the one, MCAD-31164. You're right, it's not an awful transfer, just not top notch. If someone says the Gold Master version is much better, I'd drop the $18 on it. The music is beautiful. | |
| B&W 683S2 for entery level speakers What size room are these going in? And are they also close to the side wall, as well as the back wall, or is there room to get them out into free space? | |
| $1,000,000 Speakers - Hey, you never know. These aren't as great as they're hyped to be. I tried a pair of the Moon Audio Opulence connected to my trusty Onkyo 6.1 channel home theater receiver, put on a Katrina & The Wave MP3 and it didn't sound that good. Then my cat knocked over a b... | |
| £15k $22k to spend on speakers...but which? Hi Matthew, you've gotten lots of great advice already, I'll just chime in that I recently got to hear the new 802D3 and the Olymica III - not the exact speakers you're considering but close enough that it's relevant. They're just too different fo... | |
| B&W D3s have landed @JldouglasThanks, it was a long post but I wanted to be thorough about the experience. Regarding your comment about hoping for a night/day difference given the price increase, I know how you feel. On the one hand, for all that extra money, you wan... | |
| The Hifi Trajectory Of Class D Amplifiers I have two integrateds, one a Peachtree Grand X-1 (class D) and an Audio Research VSi55 running KT120 tubes. Through first Proac D2, then Wilson Benesch Arcs, now BMC PureVOX speakers, I can't tell the two apart other than that the Peachtree is mo... |