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| Shortlist of Speaker Cables/ICs: advice/opinions Look into Virtual Dynamics cables, personally I have been as happy with their performance as anythig else I have tried, including some on your list-Cardas, Audience, Acoustic Zen. (That said, I found all three of those that I mentioned to be fine ... | |
| best wife friendly monitor? B&W signature 805's. Contrary to Classicall's opinion above, having had/have two pairs of B&W speakers, they are hands down the best WAF I've owned and garnered the most positive responses of any speakers I've had. | |
| best matching speaker stand for B&W 805 sig I haven't experimented, but I have the Sound Anchor stands for my S805's and I am very pleased with them. | |
| Budget tuner? Any Sansui TU-XXX tuner. | |
| B&W N803 VS Sonus Faber Cremona Jms_123, there will be two N803 speakers available in January, the N803D ($8000) and N803S ($5500). | |
| Early 80's - late 70's best audio products Nakamichi Cassette decks; many tuners of that era are still highly desired today. | |
| Selecting Monitors for the First Time Earlier this year I purchased my first set of monitors, not counting some earlier “stereos” when young. Now in hindsight I realize how I did things backwards and could of learned a lot by, at least, starting out with monitors, but I was always stu... | |
| What amp to drive my B&W N Sig 805's? I will simply give my experience, I don't know if it is possible in your budget; I am using a Classe CA-2200 amp with my Signature 805's, also in a log home and find this to be a great combination/match. (You can see the rest of my system by click... | |
| B&W Nuatilus There are plenty of people that 'like' to bash B&W, for whatever reason. B&W is not discontinuing the Nautilus line but rather they revamped the whole line, more than just replacing drivers; available mid-January 2005. | |
| Rowland Concentra vs. Concentra II This is the first I have ever heard of anyone claiming better build quality on one over the other; having owned the II, I don't know what JRDG could of done to improve upon the build quality, it was second to none. I am sure JRDG would refute this... | |
| Rivals for B&W 805 Signature in small rooms? A new N804 (N804S) too. | |
| TV Picture diffenences between HD and non HD Another note, I made a change this weekend that brought my experience much closer to love than love / hate, I changed from using a coax connection to RCA's and for whatever reason this was a big improvement. I should note that the piece of coax I ... | |
| Rivals for B&W 805 Signature in small rooms? There is a new N802D, for U.S. prices, look at this thread. | |
| Rivals for B&W 805 Signature in small rooms? Chris, I didn't think you were anti-B&W, the purpose for my posts is this that I don't like things stated as fact that are not or not known yet and admit that I wrongly interpret how things are said sometimes.As I stated, I don't think that an... | |
| Rivals for B&W 805 Signature in small rooms? This is the short fall of the 'net, miscommunication at times; I am not sure what I stated that has you believing that I am confusing the 805 speakers.Let's get the names straight:N805 - The origianl Nautilus 805N805S - The new Nautilus 805 (The n... |