bimmerlover
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| Tannoy or Volti @charles007100 speaker choice aside, why would you consider buying the Tannoy's at 50% of $29,000 when they can be had for $12,500 for a new pair at Upscale? Tannoy at Upscale | |
| What decibel level do you listen at? What is ideal? I very rarely go above 80 dB, and most of the time I linger in the high 60s. | |
| New vs uses in your current setup All used except my tt (Rega P10), cart (Hana Umami Blue), and one pair of speakers (Revel Performa F328Be). With careful research of both potential items and sellers I find that you get unbeatable value from buying used. Careful and diligent are ... | |
| Bi amping with two different pairs of monoblocks Instead of this method of bi-amping that you are considering, how about a different "bi-amping" approach that might yield as good if not better results? You don’t mention in your post if you have any subwoofers but here is an alternative approach... | |
| What is your audio axiom? There no such thing as too many speakers as long as they all sound different. | |
| Electronic cross-over on pre-amp out, to split signal to subwoofer and bookshelf speakers I built my own 80 Hz (second order) high pass filters from a few high-quality components. DM me if you want the schematics and parts list. (My version is a bit complicated because I have a balanced connection between my preamp and my power amps b... | |
| Best amplification for Magico S3 newer version on your experience @mountainsong I think the question you’re asking is very relevant. I’m sure you’ve done a fair amount of research before investing a good chunk of change into the S3s, so you know that they are extremely transparent, current-hungry, and finicky w... | |
| McIntosh MA352 replacement @kvpower getting those KEFs is a great move. They are tiny and easy to place yet go down to an astonishing 14 Hz, I think. (I am myself a KC92 owner. A fantastic sub, but a tad larger than the KC62.) And as other people have mentioned it is not ... | |
| Bass management--high/low pass filtering @cooper52 the crossovers I made, with some help from GR Research regarding the schematics, caps and resistor values, cost me about $250 in total, using high quality components and about two hours of my time. It’s also quite a fun DIY project, and ... | |
| Moon 761 -> 861 upgrade but keeping the 791 preamp/streamer @debrajray it is known that "lots of books" do not serve any meaningful room treatment purpose. Their absorption and diffusion are highly marginal, at best, and indeed only for the highest frequencies (shortest wavelengths). That’s just wishful t... | |
| Bass management--high/low pass filtering @gdaddy1 if you don’t like my approach, which I have explained in quite the length, why don’t you quietly move along. I was merely responding to the OP as I believe I have some relevant experience relative to his question. | |
| Bass management--high/low pass filtering @gdaddy1 if you know anything about logarithmic scales, at -10 dB it has dropped to a meaningless sound level, so has essentially -6 dB. The F328Be:s taper out at 35 Hz at -3 dB, which is still a meaningful sound pressure. One of my subs, the KEF... | |
| Bass management--high/low pass filtering @cooper52 I actually did it myself. I built two high pass filters, one for each channel as I’m running my Audio Research Ref 5SE to two separate ARC Ref 250SE mono blocks. The monoblocks feed a pair of Revel Performa F328Be speakers. I got some h... | |
| Audio Research S-200 @salectric I 100% agree. There are an infinite number of model designations that could be chosen, so why on earth reuse old ones...? | |
| How much power needed to drive 91db speakers? My speakers have about the same sensitivity as yours and when I am playing at 75 dB I rarely use more than one watt. Forty to 50 watts is ample power to drive those speakers unless you listen very loud or they are for some reason unable to provid... |