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| Buying New TV Need A Soundbar Recommendation The Bluesound Soundbar + is $900.00 and by itself gives a more natural music and sound track experience than the Arc in my listening. It too offers wireless surround and Sub options although those will burst your budget. If you use the Node for st... | |
| 10k Towers with biggest soundstage? IME, soundstage reproduction is largely dependent on both the speakers’ power response uniformity and the room’s effect on it. Early reflections can muddle the best speakers’ and lack thereof can make lesser ones seem better. Some speakers will gi... | |
| UGH...The tired, "BEST" Rock guitarist thread Mastery, passion, intelligence, creative genius, humility, and modesty...Mahavishnu John McLaughlin had it all. With Miles and then with MO...transcendent. But maybe you don't count him as "Rock". IMO Hendrix was the greatest in Rock history in ... | |
| Bookshelf dilemma Revel M106 if you want transparency, detail and accuracy. | |
| Cornwall IV – tube (amp) choice EL84 based amps like the Black Ice F11 should not be dismissed unless you lean toward the leadfoot on volume. 104dB sensitivity means that 18W is like 300W with 91dB speakers. | |
| Large room with low budget for speakers A pair of Revel F328 Be with your REL array should have enough cone area to make you happy without introducing the colorations of horns into your sound. Another one…Ohm Walsh 5s. Either is half your budget. | |
| Cheers and a big "thank you" to Lenbrook. Distributor of Dali and others. JA, There’s an “n” missing from Jim Price’s name…he’s a legend around here. | |
| Does Anyone Else Member the Golden Age of Audio Insults and Product Degradation? My own coinage, I think, Broken Awful Soon, as opposed to the popular Bang & Awfulson. Others bandied about in the mid 70s Harvard Square included Oinko, San-screwy, Yo Mama, Manrats, Hibachi, Toast-Sheba, Japan Victim Corp., RePox, Drool, an... | |
| If a speaker cable added 1 - 2 ohms of resistance would that be? No one has mentioned the potential audibility of the loss of woofer damping a series resistance of several Ohms would have although Erik and Mike circle around the fact. Of course plenty of “speaker selector” boxes have been sold and used by non-a... | |
| Dust cover up or down? I think with a fully suspended table like a Linn LP12 the dustcover is less likely to color the sound, but with a non-decoupled plinth it’s much better without the cover or at least with cover up. I have seen the static attraction effect at work m... | |
| Favorite religious song Blind Faith “Presence of the Lord”. Winwood and Clapton each at their best. One of EC’s most touchingly beautiful guitar solos. | |
| How do you arrange the order of your records? I have only 2 categories….Classical, and Everything Else. Classical is alphabetical by composer, with solo instrumental followed by chamber, concertos, symphonies, choral/oratorio/opera for each composer. EE is by band name or artist last name, ... | |
| My Ayre AX-7e Integrated amp vs. an upgrade to the Ayre EX-8 Integrated amplifier Tivo buys an IR code library from UEI most likely. A lot of "boutique" high end brands pay little attention to such matters. | |
| Upgrade path question with $2k to spend If your system is 2.1 or 2.0 it has no business incorporating an AV receiver...preriod(s). I fully support blended systems using an AV receiver for center and surrounds, with a good dedicated integrated amp in HT Bypass mode for the main speakers... | |
| Can a great system make a mediocre recording sound good? When I got into this as a teen, 50+ years ago, I was exploring the Chess Real Folk Blues catalog. Howling Wolf was a favorite...not for the "sound" but for the musical intensity. I listened on Sennheiser HD414s then...very peaky and edgy on thos... |