berner99
Responses from berner99
| WHAT IS THE MOST UNIQUE SONG THAT YOU HAVE EVER HEARD? Brain Salad Surgery by Emerson, Lake and Palmer. | |
| Considering the Parasound A23+ amplifier IF you want a parasound A23+ I'll be putting mine up for sale, PM me. | |
| Cat Scratch Fever? Journey to the Center of the Mind—a classic. | |
| Speaker Upgrade Recommendation for Current Analog System - under $10,000 Budget Interesting, thanks. | |
| Speaker Upgrade Recommendation for Current Analog System - under $10,000 Budget @steve59 “current ‘market spin’ would have us all buy wide dispersion speakers”Some of us prefer the sound of “non-box” speakers eg omnis (eg ohm), dipoles (eg Maggie’s), or open baffle which are not the same (I thought) as box speakers. I recen... | |
| Why not more popular? Non-box speakers often have qualities that I didn’t think one could find in box speakers eg a certain openness, etc. Non-box speakers:—open baffle dynamics (earliest Dahlquest DQ 10), spatial audio, pure audio project, tri-art etc.—electrostatics ... | |
| Rogers LS/35A Classic Mini Monitors Reviewed ! WOW They were great ?40 years ago (I had chartwell LS3/5As) but I'd at least check out LSA's book shelf speakers before buying one today. | |
| Brainstorm Thursday. Are we approaching the Audiophile Singularity? "are we heading toward a time when everything will sound great but kind of the same?"Maggies and e.g. JBL speakers are both popular so little danger of that. | |
| Classical Top Five Bach, replace Mozart with Haydn, Beethoven, replace Brahms with Schubert. 5th? Rachmaninoff. | |
| Audiophile Fuses: Helpful or "Snake Oil"? Listen to people who post from experience.Theories can be wrong (see last 12 months). | |
| What tests would you like all speaker reviewers to do for their reviews? +1 I’d like them to describe their preferred sound types - we all have a preference - up front. Then I’d like them to say how the speaker under test satisfies their preferences. | |
| Shopping for new speakers-need ideas... Selling old DQ-10's... Let us know what you get and how you like them. | |
| Shopping for new speakers-need ideas... Selling old DQ-10's... Nice Amp. Had the speakers decades ago. They are open baffle speakers and have a wonderful openness that most box speakers don’t. Options that do:--Another open baffle: 1.Spatial audios start at $3500 2. Tri-Art B Series 4 Doug Schroeder wrote a g... | |
| Own Magnepans? Got Cats? I was once at a party of a host who was fostering kittens. I vividly remember a kitten leaping from the floor, digging her claws into one of those folding room dividers about 4’ off the floor, and the divider fall over (kitten of course was fine... | |
| HOW MUCH DO NON-AUDIO FACTORS INFLUENCE YOUR AUDIO PURCHASES? Components—no.Speakers, especially if floorstanding and tall need to be reasonably attractive ie any normal medium to dark wood (or black) and no weird/ugly shapes. |