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| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? @bgm1911,"while you may be correct, I cannot spend 19K on speakers that don’t sound right during an audition, and then HOPE I can make them sound better in my home."Nor I hope should anyone else ever have to either.At 19k I would certainly expect ... | |
| Wharfedale Elysian 4 Incredible build quality and sound, but made in China. @arcticdeath,"apple the biggest,iphones, iPads, pods, etc etc. they have about 30$ worth of parts, and stuff, yet, they sell em for 1,000$profit is the ultimate goal. Nothing else matters."Yes, but this is how they became the biggest company on t... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear I personally wouldn't call Pink Martini obscure but there you are.I'm not even so sure about Genevieve Waite or the Incredible String Band being obscure either. I'd hope not.So my nomination would be Talulah Gosh, purveyors of 1980s pretty pop, wh... | |
| Why so many angry audiophiles? @afisher,"Anger is generated in a lot audiophiles when the reality is nowhere near the promise of buying this or that recommended by professional reviewers or chasing recommendations made by strangers without personal consequences on the internet.... | |
| Wharfedale Elysian 4 Incredible build quality and sound, but made in China. Yes, but how do they sound?If this is Wharfedale's best loudspeaker, then shouldn't we be interested?Business ethics can only have very little to do with the way the modern world operates. Price and quality come first.Having said all that I would ... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? @whitestix , an interesting post. The original LS50 has been one of the great success stories of the past decade. It will also be interesting to see which well known brands do not make an eventual appearance here. [Unless I've missed it, Tekton an... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? @ kenjit,"I remember hearing some Vivid Audio speakers and whilst their advanced metal drivers had tremendous dynamics (I cant remember hearing any better) they did have an unpleasant sharpness to the treble that could get borderline painful."whic... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? I generally find that it’s the more ambitious designs that usually draw more attention to their faults than some less ambitious one.For example the speaker on the iPad if within its operating range, is perfectly well balanced and inoffensive.On th... | |
| What is the Silliest Accessory You Have Ever Seen. @mahgister,"But dont forget that all ordinary humans are mostly trustful...."Apparently experiments from the first part of the last century have shown that some 20% of the population are highly suggestible. These are the kind of folk a hypnotist w... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? @uncledemp ,"Humans mean-mouthing humans over stereos, really? It’s a stereo. You’d insult and fight with someone over a stereo?"Maybe not me and you, but for some dealers, manufacturers and designers, their very livelihood may depend upon the suc... | |
| Question for those with Tannoy experience The thing about Tannoys is the way the way their prices can oscillate quite wildly.This seems to suggest that used HiFi is very much prone to fashion.Perhaps one or two good reviews and the prices start climbing, one or two disparaging ones and th... | |
| Which speakers did you find bright, fatiguing or just disappointing in some way? Any with poor treble. Basically all of them have crossover issues, sibilance issues, beaming issues, dispersion issues, distortion issues.Some of them are quite unbearable. Some are more tolerable.Wouldn’t it be nice to have a speaker you can turn... | |
| KEF ls50 meta’s are on the way @patrickdowns@KENJIT never disappoints. :) LOLThe engineers at KEF have a lot more work to do before they can impress a master audiophile such as myself.Yes, thanks for pointing it out. Can’t let a gem like that slip by. Definitely worth taking a ... | |
| Revel F328Be's Have Arrived! / Contradicting Specs? @dreas,Now if any speakers are going to help you escape that nagging feeling that there's something wrong with your sound, or that something about it could be better, it's those Revel 328s.I've been listening to headphones a lot recently and when ... | |
| Best upgrade for cd player? I don't think there is one for nuance, detail and dynamics.All CD player sounds are notoriously close and differences are subtle to say the least. Try comparing a budget machine to a top of the range one.Or even a Blu-ray / DVD one.On the other ha... |