celtic66
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| Why are People Dumping their Audio Research Gear and What Does it Say about them? One human emotion trumps all, uncertainty. It moves markets, starts wars and makes people dump product when they sense uncertainty of support. Period. Judging that as rational or not, completely subjective. | |
| Speaker platform Covered ad nauseam. General consensus on this forum seems: Isoacoustics Gaia footers work well for most and the Townshend Podiums are superior to those and cost a lot more money. There are some really good observations when searched. | |
| I was happy with my system for 30 years; now I need a new amp...and more? Epos ES 11 are still terrific! Upgrade the single cap internally and hold. If you keep the Epos you’ve 2K for used tube mono-blocks. Sweet. There are older VTL, Manley, Carey that show up. Cheers | |
| Class A Integrated amps +2 Sugden A21SE. But then I do not know your endgame. It's an overwhelming performer for Advent speakers, probably sold that model of Advent in the day. Great performers.....for the day. Any receiver would drive them and be musical. The Sugde... | |
| Speaker recommendations :-) https://www.musicdirect.com/equipment/speakers/atc-scm50-pslt-passive-tower-speakers-pair/ Any dealer will do, just like the speaker. Life changing. | |
| Modifying Crossovers +1 @erik_squires I've "crossover component upgraded" a dozen pairs of decent mid-fi speakers with terrific success, however, these all had 20 cent caps in the crossover. I never varied from stated values. Always upgraded the wire also. For ... | |
| Best POP audiophile recording/album... Shelby Lynne "Just a Little Lovin'" SACD hybrid version. | |
| DAC for second system Mojo Audio R2R DACs are terrific and fit your price points. I've the Mystique' 3. Many other models are R2R. | |
| Recommendations for modern integrated with tone & balance controls other than Mcintosh It's Luxman. | |
| I feel it is time to upgrade my 1977 system....... Luxman 590AXll. One stop shopping with 30wpr Class A, MM/MC built-in phono. Run some Duelund 12 gauge speaker cables and you are done. Cheers | |
| If I wanted to make my own speaker cables, is this a good choice for wire? Duelund DCA12GA bare between Luxman 509X and ATC SCM 20 monitors set on Sound Anchor stands and they are superb. Solid bass, sweet midrange and very open on the top end. This is a perfect speaker wire for the money. Perhaps my Decware Silver St... | |
| Puritan 156 Power Cord Well, it's here. The Chris Romeo built Furutech DPS 4.1 with matching Furutech connectors referenced above and it's freaky good. It replaces the stock Puritan PSM 156 cable. The performance annihilates the stock cable in all facets of speed, dy... | |
| Hafler matrix type of home theatre / rear recovery system Posted this a couple of years ago: I’m just going to go at this as I’ve practiced it many times. Normal front speaker set-up. Take long single wire from Rt (+) to Rt rear (+). Repeat same Lt side. Connect both rear speaker (-) terminals with ... | |
| Best tweak Listening chair is an IKEA with headrest. Removed the separate headrest piece so just the open wood frame is behind my head. Much more open sounding. | |
| Sold a component and bought it back, am I nuts? That happened to me with a girlfriend once. Still didn't keep her and trade-in value was not in my favor. |