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| Star Wars: Return of the Dorks That's great! Thanks for posting the link! | |
| Suitable amplifier for Dynaudio Contour 3.3? I have heard the 3.3s on the 334 and on FPB series Krell and find the Krell to be a much better match than for the Dynaudios than the ML. It's more dynamic, spacious, in other words, more realistic. The Plinius and Pass would also be some good rec... | |
| Speaker cable for BW Nautilus 803 I've got a Clearaudio Champion TT and a Linn Genki CD going into a Placette Passive Line Stage (all connected with AQ Viper) and from that into a Rotel RB1080 (next on my upgrade list) to the Calderas and N803s. | |
| Speaker cable for BW Nautilus 803 I've got the Audioquest Caldera bi-wire on my N803s and am very happy with the combination. The Caldera is smooth and detailed without getting grainy or bright and has a very balanced sound with solid imaging. | |
| B&W 803 vs. 804 My N803s took a couple of months of regular playing to finally open up. The bass will go deeper with better definiton, the highs will be smoother and the soundstage depth will also increase. One way to speed up the process (and not disturb the hou... | |
| Krell Showcase The new Showcase will just be a slimmed down version of the HTS2. No card expansion slots, no source LEDs and no pure analog passthrough. As far as I have heard it has pretty much all of the other features of the HTS2. | |
| Professional vs. Consumer speakers What do you mean "harshness that real world music really has"? Listen to a jazz quartet, a symphony or a great rock band not at earbleed levels and it is not nearly as "harsh" as even a very good playback system. High quality playback systems stri... | |
| B&W 803 vs. 804 Rlb61, one of the main differences between the N804 and N803 is not only driver size but speaker cabinet volume and that plays a significant role in their sonic differences. The N804s can sound great in smaller rooms but can get lost in larger spa... | |
| Dynaudio or Wison? The Dynaudio Temptations are some of my favorite speakers but I feel that Wilson has a better synergy with Levinson. The Maxx's powered by the 33's is a fantastic combination as are the Tempations powered by Krell 650mc's. | |
| Professional vs. Consumer speakers P.S. I have a friend that works at Westlake Studios that heard my B&W system and was blown away with the more natural sound. He said "This is what they want our rooms to sound like but how do they expect us to do it with their speakers?" No joke. | |
| Professional vs. Consumer speakers The reason I got into high-end audio was because I was looking for speakers for my recording studio and found that the "pro" models sounded vastly inferior to what was available on the better consumer end of the spectrum. The B&Ws/Dynaudios/Du... | |
| LAST Record Preservative: Thumbs up or thumbs down During further research I found out that the LAST Preservative actually softens the vinyl, preventing (they claim) parts of the groove walls from possibly chipping off. I have also heard that the pressure from applying the Preservative in conjunct... | |
| LAST Record Preservative: Thumbs up or thumbs down I just bought some to try out and give it a resounding thumbs down. The high frequencies seem damped and oddly enough there seems to be more surface noise. The records I tried it on have all been Disc Doctored and put in Nitty Gritty sleeves. The ... | |
| Best Sounding Cd Palyer for 2K I'd have to second the Linn and Rega players, they are both very musical and quite good buys at their respective price points. | |
| LAST???? Has anybody tried this? I've heard of the "Linn Wipes" but don't know anybody who has tried them or where to get them (Linn USA didn't even know what they were!). I use Record Research Lab LP#9 and it works very well for cleaning the stylus and I have not encountred any ... |