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| Help me emulate the best speakers I've heard I had briefly considerd Shahinian speakers as an upgrade when I shopped for speakers about three years ago. I could have taken a day and travelled to Shahinian, but that would not tell me how the speakers would sound in my room, with my electronic... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Jwc2012: Well, I sorted out the short. It seems the unbalanced main outputs on my preamp have failed. The wires are fine. Fortunately, my preamp has three sets of unbalanced main outputs, so I switched to a different set. Everything works fine, al... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Jwc2012 - Thanks for the post. John S. is a real gentleman, and very generous (I speak from my own experience).Mapman - Of course it is possible that something in how the chord and plugs are connected could be different. However, it was an upgrade... | |
| Vandersteen 2WQ Originally, I added a pair of 2Wqs to my Vandy 1Cs. When I upgraded to Ohm Walsh 2000s a few years back, they blended every bit as well as the 1Cs. I think Vandersteen is telling the truth: If your mains will go down to 40Hz, and you hook the 2Wq ... | |
| So......what do you use under your speakers? Like you, Nobrainer, I have a concrete floor covered with commercial carpet and no padding. A couple of years ago, I bought speakers with plinth bases (no spikes). Since my floor is not flat, the speakers wobbled. I tried using shims and pads to l... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Thanks for you thoughts, Wtf. Very instructive. | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Well, the results of my power cord upgrade are in. If you had told me five years ago that for under $3K I could own a pair orf loudspeakers that allowed me to hear the difference between brass plugs and copper plugs on the same power cord, I would... | |
| Ohm Walsh Micro Talls: who's actually heard 'em? Wtf - Thanks for the update. I bet I am not the only one who would love to hear your impressions of the differences of the three speakers you own. If you have the time, that is.I also love music and gear, but space and finances require me to keep ... | |
| network storage servers Sorry for the delay, Drrnc2. My VBA is connected to my wireless router via ethernet cables, it cannot connect wirelessly, afaik. The SBT picks up the wifi signal from the router. I've never used JRiver, but it is very well-regarded in computer hif... | |
| Sim audio mind streamer vs Squeezetouch How much is a MiND 180? | |
| Music player vs server; Auraliti vs Sonore vs W4S Well, Tom, for a Noob, you seem to know what you're doing! FWIW, I purchased a Vortexbox Appliance, a dedicated pc music server which runs Linux. Although it has a built-in ripper, I have been much happier using dBPoweramp on a wirelessly networke... | |
| Recommendation: great floorstander & amp $3K ea Based on what you want sonics-wise, I can recommend you audition the speakers I own, the Ohm Walsh 2000 ($2800/pr). If you search the reviews, you'll find my review of this speaker. I can add that as I have upgraded my electronics, the Ohms have a... | |
| High value 3 channel amp choices? I can only speak about the Odyssey Audio HT3. I find the sound reasonably dynamic, detailed, yet smooth, with no etch or grit. Stereo imaging and soundstage are very good, if not SOTA. | |
| I am thinking about a Butler 5 channel amp. Walter - It took the purchase of a power amp for my AVR (a Pioneer Elite) for me to realize that, in my case, the preamp section of the AVR was the bottleneck in my system, not the amplifiers within the AVR. I kept the amp anyway, and eventually u... | |
| Kef Blade or Wilson Audio Alexia? I have heard the Blades twice, and both times I was very underwhelmed. If someone gave me $30K to spend on KEF speakers, I'd buy the top KEF Reference model, and pocket the difference. OTOH, I've heard various Wilson Audio speakers in the past, an... |