brianh61
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| Best Forum to hear experienced audiophiles exchange thoughts? If you want to talk about mostly HE and New gear, I would suggest AudioShark.org run by the owner of Suncoast Audio in Sarasota. | |
| Can you give me your speaker suggestions? OP- You pretty much described my Fyne Audio F502SPs | |
| Is there a ceiling limit on what you are willing to pay for an audio component? I wish I had Jay's budget also but sadly I do not. I had bought and cobbled systems together for years, some new and some used. I decided it was time to move out of the 90s and 00s and put together a complete new system. I gave myself a $20K budge... | |
| Compact Floor-standing Speaker Recommendations under $4k Also look into whatever model of Fyne Audio meets your budget. Very clear mids and vocals as well as everything else. | |
| Why a dearth of some brands on the used market? Dyns are for sale because many customers keep stepping up the ladder. I heard the Devores directly after listening to Dynaudio and Harbeth and was totally underwhelmed after all the hype I had read. May have just been me. | |
| Audio Alchemy Nostalgia Trip I had the same AA with a Marantz 67SE as my first real playback. They make new gear again. | |
| Premium Power Cable Survey: The Results Are IN @clearthinker If we all took the same Hearing Test, do you think we would all have the same exact results? I don't because everyone's hearing is not the same. | |
| Making speakers “disappear”….. As per Jim Smith, try to make the distance from Tweeter to Tweeter somewhere around 80-83% of the distance between each Tweeter and your ears when in your listening spot. Looks like a similar formula right above. | |
| My Luxman Integrated has AC Inlet Envy My 505UXII has had no issues with cables from Pangea, Shunyata, Cullen, or PS Audio. | |
| Questions about Resolving Systems One thing that made me realize that my newer system were more resolving was the fact that I had listened to Too Old to Rock & Roll by Tull many hundreds of times over the years and really never read all the liner notes. I recently got my 40 ye... | |
| What's your experience with snooty HiFi salesmen? When I was a teen in the 70s, my brother took me to Soundex to buy my first stereo with my first income tax refund. The store was small and my brother knew the sales guy from previous purchases. Over time Soundex grew and ended up with a 2 floor 2... | |
| Tubes for a pre stage... matched NEW or unmatched identical NOS? @tomcy6 - Bob does some great work. He used to do Tube Only repair and customization and has his own patented circuit designs. He lives a mile away and has done some repairs for me even after he was building the new Pres. It's a nice sight seeing ... | |
| what are your top "audio bargins" in your system history? Years ago I purchased a VAC CLA1 MKII Pre, Counterpoint NPS-400, Clearfield Continental speakers with Synergistic Research cables for $300 and then spent $300 on tubes and a repair. I still have and use the VAC in my second system. | |
| FAVORITE POWER CABLE under $100 (1M) I also have some Cullen Golds that are only $111 for 3ft | |
| Why Are We Breaking Our Brains? We have a good friend that is a sommelier and the wine buyer at the place we shop. From the first time we went and said, we are looking for a wine that had a label sorta like this and tasted like that" She walks over to the shelf and says "we don'... |