cooper52
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| Recommendations for bookshelf speakers Focals arrived today and they're playing happily away in my system. Right out of the box I'm impressed with their remarkable imaging and facility with vocal tracks. I thought a good touchstone would be a CD of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, where the... | |
| Recommendations for bookshelf speakers Update: I've settled on a set of Focal 906s (new) that were listed here on A'gon at an irresistible price. They'll be here tomorrow. It'll take some time for them to find their voice (100 hrs. or so, I'm told) but I'm really looking forward to hea... | |
| Recommendations for bookshelf speakers Just a quick question for the Spendor owners, if you've heard both of these: considering their English DNA, I'm wondering how these speakers compare to Harbeths. I'm not a fan of the latter, as I feel they err too much on the "warm and fuzzy" s... | |
| Recommendations for bookshelf speakers Thanks for all your suggestions. There are a few speakers presently listed here on A'gon that I'm very interested in: Some Spendor SP 3/1Ps and the above mentioned Focal Aria 906s. From this you might get an idea of what appeals to my taste. Speak... | |
| Opinions about upgrade I've had a bit of experience with the combination of Hegel and Proac, though different models (Hegel H200 and Proac Response D2s). To my ear, as good as both these components are, the combination tended a bit towards shrill which I ultimately foun... | |
| Is it still possible to upgrade an AMR DP-777 to SE? Thanks for the responses. I sent an inquiry to AMR UK last week which has so far gone unanswered. Might try the same with iFi and see if they have any info about this. Hopefully I'll know one way or another soon. Stay tuned. | |
| Best bookshelf speakers Stuff_Jones: The one Silverline speaker I heard (last year) was the Minuet Grand, as that's the one I specifically requested. Fritz was kind enough to bring over several models of his speakers: Rev 5, Rev 7, Carbon 7 (not the SE, if I remember cor... | |
| HDMI cable for I2S And a final update here: I’ve jettisoned both of the PS Audio components, the PWD II and the PWT. Sorry, but I just never was able to come to terms with the sound of them, and no amount of playing around with the cabling could tame their shrillnes... | |
| Best bookshelf speakers Weighing in here based on my own experience: Of the speakers under discussion, I’ve heard/owned a pair of Proac Response 1SCs which were mentioned some posts ago (these spent about 10 years in my system before a change of amplification dictated so... | |
| HDMI cable for I2S Johnread57: I did a little poking around about the Oppo and discovered that while it doesn’t support the I2s protocol, but you can buy an add-on card that will enable I2s output via HDMI. Here’s the link: www.oppomod.comThey have a number of diffe... | |
| Insider or Outsider? To be or not to be,...? My 2 cents (and not $100): I was actually pretty irritated when I received the email describing this "innovation." There's already a certain amount of in-club and out-club mentality (my recent visit to the California Audio Show in July illustrated... | |
| HAVE ALL SALES STOPPED ON AUDIOGON ??? It does seem that things are not selling as briskly here as we'd hope; certainly my recent experience reflects this. While I'm not a prolific seller on A'gon, I do have some worthy items I'd like to find homes for but they sure don't seem to be mo... | |
| Have you ever hated the sound of your system one day, and loved it the next? Hmmm. Well, getting back to the subject at hand, I'm glad to see this discussion, as I always thought it was just me. My system never sounds actually "bad," but sometimes I've noticed that it seems to be in especially fine voice. Always chalked th... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? With regard to to the subject of what is "musical," let me paraphrase Sir Kenneth Clark (art historian, TV presenter, museum director, and crashing bore): I don't know what "musical" is, but I know when I'm in its presence. (He said this about Civ... | |
| PS Audio PWT and PWD MK II--recent acquisiton Whether or not HDMI cables make a difference is pretty controversial. In this case the cable is transmitting only audio data using the I2S protocol, so it's possible that the improved materials in the Transparent cable do a better job of moving th... |