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| Best skiinny floorstanders Have both new Goldenear Triton One.R and older Audio Physic Scorpio. Both narrow. Both excellent. GE is in a large room. AP is in a smaller room. | |
| Top down or bottom up? Just asking... It’s well beyond my knowledge of speaker design and business economics to definitively answer the ops question. But my experience is that if I like the SQ of a particular speaker brand, then I usually like all the offerings from that manufacturer ... | |
| Please Educate Me You really don’t need a lot of technical jargon. It’s been said previously, but ... Preserving the sequence of 1s and 0s, that represent the music, is easy (the digital domain). All the sound differences (analog domain) occur when converting from ... | |
| Primaluna EVO 400 vs. stock Cary SLP-05 preamp? Sorry. My previous preamps were all pretty vintage. ARC SP6, CJ PV-7 and others. Currently using integrateds in another system. Absolutely love the Manley Stingray II, but it’s hard to compare to the Cary, since the room and other components are s... | |
| Remarkably better sound possible with just 1 system component change? If you love your sound, except at low volume, you need to correct for unnatural frequency response due to Fletcher-Munson effect. I.e., you need loudness compensation or equalization. Try a Schiit Loki. It will improve low volume greatly, when tun... | |
| Floor-standing vs Book-shelf from upper line up? I’ve found that narrow floor standers with side firing woofers sound best in a smaller room. Currently using Audio Physic Scorpios. Not new, but everything newer that I’ve tried doesn’t compare. Great imaging, detail and bass. | |
| Your shipping wrecks. USPS,FED-EX and UPS I have had dozens of deiveries, and several shipments out using Fedex, UPS, USPS. Never a problem with any of them. Am I just extremely lucky? In Southern CA. | |
| For the Audiophile with a taste for good design(looks)....a question. Pro-ject Sigature 10 with olivewood plinth. Gorgeous tonearm also. Sonics match its good looks too. | |
| Recommendations for a modestly priced analog system With the Cary step up upgrade, they can also upgrade the caps and diodes. Ony a couple hundred more, and well worth it. My SLP-05 was just upgraded this year, and it was a pleasure to deal with them.most preamps with only have high output moving m... | |
| Recommendations for a modestly priced analog system I have both the EAR 834 and Cary SLP98P with F1 mod. The Cary with the mod and an outboard step up transformer sounds about equal to the EAR. Both great. You can get a Cary upgrade that adds a step up, and Parts upgrades for about $750. A great wa... | |
| Easily the best and most significant sonic tweak one could ever make! Another extremely satisfied Oticon user. I put off getting a hearing aid to correct high freq loss in one ear, because I thought it would distort music. Boy was I wrong. Now I don’t seriously listen to music without them.The Oticons are a tiny com... | |
| What speaker – under $10k – has the best timbre and tonal qualities? “Timbre” and “tonal quality” are the characteristics that the OP values most. So a good definition of these qualities is a requirement. For me these attributes are what makes an instrument or voice sound like the instrument or voice that is actual... | |
| Why is there no love for Prima Luna? Since I started in this hobby I’ve owned a dozen or so tube amps - integrated, stereo and mono. I’ve also owned ss amps - currently Pass Labs XA60.5.By far the best amp was the Manley Stingray integrated. Not sure why it sounds so great. Maybe it’... | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? With respect to linear tracking arms, I have some, albeit limited, experience. I used an Eminent Technology air bearing tangential arm on a Sota Sapphire table. No big deal. Sound quality no better than a decent pivoted arm. And the air pump, etc ... | |
| Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge? I don’t know about hyping, but I have 4 turntables, and can rank them in sound quality in my systems.1. Pro-ject Signature 102. Pro-ject RPM 10.1 Evolution3. and 4. tied: - Clearaudio Concept - Oracle Delphi V with Granite plinthYou can’t go wro... |