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| Opinions on Fluance... Commissar, try a Harmon Kardon. I was impressed for the money. It is a high current (for a receiver), wide bandwidth design. They are slightly lively and I think would match well with Mission which could use some dynamic punch.You can buy refurbis... | |
| Hlp - my bookshelf spkr is like humpty dumpty How about concrete blocks for speaker stands. Let's see your cat knock them over! Assuming you don't have a Tiger, Lynx, Bobcat :-) | |
| Biggest Sound in the Littliest Box Red Rose Rosebuds $3,500. | |
| Suggestions for a monitor speaker ascend acoustics CBM-170 for $328.Dynaudio BM-5 pro monitor is said to be better than the Audience series and costs $599 from www.markertek.com.You may need to spend more... . . then maybe not. | |
| Buzzzzzing Transformers I just demo'd a "home-made" power amp and could hear the transformer hum from across the room. What a p.o.s.Then the mfg'r bashes my stereo as the problem for his poor workmanship. That won some points - NOT! | |
| B&W DM603 + DM602.5 + LCR600 vs KEF Q5 + Q3 + Q9c I'd take the B&W over KEF. I've A/B'd Monitor Audio side by side with B&W and the older silver 8's had better quality of bass. Faster, well defined, more musical. Maybe B&W better for home theater? I don't know.B&W with Nautilus tw... | |
| Best bang-for-buck purchase you have made? Novus plastic cleaner for about $4.00 and a microfiber polishing cloth from Wal-Mart for $2.00. Use on CD's. | |
| Opinions on Fluance... I think it is rude - err maybe that's flatulance?They may be a good buy dollar-wise but not so good sound-wise.It will be very hard to find floorstanders for under $300 that sound good. B&W Dm601 series 3, Monitor Audio Bronze, Acoustic Energy... | |
| I need a musical sub under 500,,,,new or used. Hsu distributed by Ascend Acoustics or Parts Express sells a sub. These would be two options. | |
| Audio articles of interest Agonan :-), This site is turning me into a deadbeat but I do need sleep. If I don't start spending less time here I will be unemployed.AudioPhysic speaker placementSpeaker placementB&W speaker placementA-gon speaker placementHigher FiCardas | |
| DIY balanced interconnects www.markertek.com sells balanced I/C's. Belden wire looks better than Canare beacuse of lower capacitance.Chris Ven Haus at audioasylum.com has a balanced version of his I/C as well. 1/10 the capacitance as the Belden stuff. | |
| B&W 7NT vs. Paradigm reference 80 for plinius mkII Funny how no one on the internet would buy B&W yet they are one of the best selling speakers in the world. Including pro use in recording studios. | |
| Who's to blame for the Grain?? I'll throw in my support for the pre. maybe even a properly impedance matched 10Kohm ALPS pot for $35 with SHORT interconnects.No need to apologize for your system. Don't give in to the peer pressure of spending a lot of money for status. Buy beca... | |
| Warm vs. Analytical The current delivery of the amp can be the cause. A low powered MOSFET amp would sound warm vs a high powered bi-polar which can react faster and bring out more detail.I would consider the MOSFET then to be more poorly designed from a design stand... | |
| Who makes the best passive volume control? I've heard good things about the TDK stepped attenuator $229 from percyaudio.com. Much finer steps than DACT or the standard Goldpoint models.Tarsando, you got me thinking. I could burn my CD's at -40dB and run direct CDP to power amp. Not even a ... |