chrisr
Responses from chrisr
| Totem Hawks - my impressions Yes, bass response, clarity, soundstage, transparency.... So what bookshelf or tower would you recommend to get deeper into the music @whitestix? | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming I have just tesyed my cd copies of dave brubeck qiartet "take 5" (columbia) and "what's new" (telarc), and "late night bruneck" (telarc) against spotify and tidal.Results are always consistent.... Cd is either clearly better, or auguably better.Al... | |
| Totem Hawks - my impressions So 4 years later than you, i acquired a used pair of hawks. I have the exact same impression... 20 years in audio and this is perhaps the best pair of speakers (read compromise) i have ever had.... And i heard b&w, vandersteen, magnepan, dyna... | |
| How important is it for you to attain a holographic image? To me, precise holographic soundstage is the holy grail of hifi.The totem hawk i am listening to are phenomenal in this regard... Comes to mind magnepan and ls50s that i have owned previously. | |
| Quad S-2 I have the s2 on my shortlist, along with dynaudio x18, b&w 706 or used nautilus 805. | |
| North Carolina Audio Club Ah, just discovered this thread, i am a couple miles north of charlotte. | |
| Best bookshelf speakers Not sure you can save an all lot DIY these days because of the many speaker companies opening or using factories in low cost Asia. But this is how I treated my ears to good sound in the 90s 2000s... Seas, Dynaudio, focal kits that were just unbeat... | |
| Speaker Cables The least resistive ones. | |
| Totem Hawks Fabulous speaker that sounds bigger than it is and capable of playing low bass down to 40hz if not below.. The woofer is a scanspeak revelator, arguably their best, and the tweeter is a higher end vifa. Not sure about power handling and their ab... | |
| Help with advice for high end speaker cables for my system! +1 BJC - more copper less plastic | |
| Looking For 90% of the performane of the super expensive cables for much less money I use high end fake Kimber. They look great and I can BS my friends into hearing the difference 2k speaker cables can make. Here's my dilemma, I can buy these cables at $75 a pop. I think I could sell them (only locally) to people I know for abo... | |
| Looking For 90% of the performane of the super expensive cables for much less money With Belden 5t00up, 100-200% of the performance for 15% of the cost. | |
| Kimber 12tc break in time And in kimber there's 6x more plastic teflon covering copper than in an ordinary cable... | |
| Fuses on Magnepan .7 speackers I have had both MMGs and MG12s (now called .7).I reconnected them to by-pass the fuse.The difference in transparency and clarity is obvious.If you trust your amp and run it well below its capabilities, just by-pass.I have had MMGs driven by a qsc ... | |
| marantz pm8006 vs peahtree nova 150. I have the 8004, purchased in 2011, and it's running 24/7 except when I leave for a few days. Built like a tank and very listenable. |