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| Best SACD player $1,000-$1,500 Range I haven't heard it, but the NAD M5 gets good reviews, and can be found either used or refurbed in your price range. | |
| Vandersteen 1 in the nearfield, for rock music? Thanks, John - Nope. That #$%^&*! RPTV is on wheels, but there is no place to role it to in my basement. Besides, I do use it (guilty, as charged). The high pass I use are the Vandy in-line filters, which are fixed @80Hz anyway. And, I gotta t... | |
| Vandersteen 1 in the nearfield, for rock music? Well... My 1Cs (each with its own 2Wq sub) are about 7 feet in front of me and about 5 feet apart. I listen to about 65% electronic rock, the balance being jazz and classical. Of any speaker I have heard in its price range, the 1Cs are as smooth a... | |
| best 5.1 reciever???? I own a Sherwood P-965 Pre-Pro. Their new AVR, the R-972, offers a great feature set and lists for under $1800. Pros: excellent features, and if the 965 is any guide, really great sonics. Cons: Ergonomics are lousy, and require lots of patience.Ro... | |
| Best speaker under 1k in combo w/ OUTLAW RR2150 Some humble suggestions to audition:Vandersteen 1C (stands required) ~$1KDCM TFE200 $1KSilverline Audio Minuet $600Silverline Audio Prelude $1200 | |
| NJ Audio Society? Although married with kids, I'm so....so..... alone! :( | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please I've never done any serious listening to the Arros, but I did audition the Preludes (at HE2007 in NYC). For their size and price, they are very impressive. Huge, 3-D soundstage, subwoofer-like bass extension, and clean, smooth, extended highs. The... | |
| Ref 3A Veena - Devore Gibbon 8 - Audiophysic Yara I demo'd the Gibbons, but I think something was wrong with the dealer's setup. There was no, and I mean no, bass. In fact, it sounded like everything below the middle mids was AWOL. But I doubt that's how they're supposed to sound. | |
| With 15W tube amp, which speakers to use? DCM TFE-200. I heard these demo'd at HE2007 in NYC, run off the Jolida integrated with 15 watts/channel. Truely impressive, and this was a larger meeting room, not one of the tiny guest rooms. The sound was smooth, dynamic, extended, with a very l... | |
| Want to improve sound of Silverline Prelude II I currently have Vandy 1Cs, each with its own 2Wq sub. I run a SS amp and a tube preamp (whole rig in my profile). I have heard the Preludes and Boleros. I am in love with the Boleros, but can't afford them. I cannot use larger Vandys due to their... | |
| Dali Helicon 400 or Acoustic Zen Adagio? I've followed this thread for a while. Anyone care to comment on the Helicon 400s or the Adagios as combined with an Odyssey Stratos HT3 amp (SS, 150w/channel, with cap upgrade) and a pair of Vandersteen 2Wq subwoofers? TIA. | |
| Vandersteen Surround HELP I have a pair of 1Cs, each with its own 2Wq as mains, a VCC-1 center, and 1Cs as surrounds, with a pair of Paradigm Atoms for rear-surrounds. The 1C surrounds are up on 2 rows of cinderblocks (they are pretty close to the listening area, ~4 to 5 f... | |
| External Crossover/Vandersteen Sub I had a pair of 2Wqs that I used wih the WX2 x-over for about a year before ordering the fixed value x-overs from my Vandy dealer. The difference was huge. Improved clarity, focus, lower noise floor, better image specificity, expanded soundstage, ... | |
| Best used floorstanding / full range around $1000 Here's a speaker I've heard, and was very impressed by, that you can buy NEW for $1K/pr.: www.dcmspeakers.com. The TFE200 made beautiful music with a 15 watt/channel Jolida tube integrated and Jolida CDP at HE2007 in NYC. The room was not one of t... | |
| Gallo Reference 3.1 questions... I auditioned these recently. I am looking to upgrade from Vandy 1Cs (other Vandys are either too large or too expensive). What I liked was their very smooth presentation in the upper-mid/lower-treble range, hu-normous soundstage, and their freedom... |