ctwith3
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| Affordable vs. ultra expensive speakers - what's the difference? There are many more expensive speakers than the ones you mention, and if you have the money to spend, the time to listen, the difference in sound adds more enjoyment, then those more expensive speakers are the right ones for you. If you don’t like... | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? @jjss49 Well said. | |
| What Is So Special About Harbeth? Are you looking for a certain sound, or an accurate representation of the music as recorded? How many professional live performances have you attended in a proper acoustically balanced environment have you attended? i own a pair of 30.2 XDs conne... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? +1 on RelayerAfter my wife goes to sleep later I will be spinning Yes and Rush. How can you play one without the other? | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I watched the documentary In Search of Beethoven yesterday and I started this morning at 9:15 EST with Klemperer and Brundel performing piano concertos and I’m now 1/3 of the way into the 9th Symphony in the nine symphony Von Karajan box set from ... | |
| How many vinyl albums do you own you listen to? I have about 475 albums. I stopped counting at 450. Most (350+) are mine purchased over 48 years, the others are from family. Every Saturday morning I was at Sam Goody’s buying records from age 9 until they closed up. I would have more if it weren... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? LOL, I have Bill Evans at the Vanguard coming up next.A couple of weeks ago I was shopping for a new amp and I encountered my first streamer. The owner, John, was streaming VH-1 Storytellers Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson on some $16k Vandersteins.... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I wanted to do a full on comparison, symphony by symphony, VonKarajan v. Bernstein. Just 1 problem- I can’t find my Bernstein set. How a guy could misplace a 9 album record set is beside me. Maybe my doppelgänger stole it? I’ve had this set for ag... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Beethoven: Piano Sonatas No. 8, Pathétique/ No. 14, Moonlight/ No. 21, Waldstein/ No. 23, Appassionata- Kempf | |
| Speakers for the deck- okay to discuss here? I’m less than thrilled with it.It seems like it needs to just be a left or right speaker to create any dimensional sound, and the volume isn’t there. The pair of Sonos One SLs I had last year were a little light on bass, otherwise decent sound and... | |
| Speakers for the deck- okay to discuss here? Whoops! I bought an Extreme 3 from Amazon last night for $319.99. I was going to go with a pair of the Charges, but …Free return fo 30 days, so if It doesn’t do what I need, back it goes, and I’ll try a pair of the Charges. | |
| Watt Gives? @timlub “I have owned maybe 25 amplifiers manufactured between 1976 and 2000.”/That’s better than 1 per year; what did you start with, and what do you have now?I heard a superb Belles Virtuoso amp at Audio Connection, and followed up by buying one... | |
| Upscale Audio and Primaluna I’ve made 4 purchases from Upscale. They can be a little pushy at times, but found them to be congenial. Even Kevin, who started grating on my nerves after 2 minutes, but kept conversing with him and found his grating comes from his passion.I have... | |
| Speakers for the deck- okay to discuss here? How about the JBL Extreme 3? It has a 3.5mm input, and I was wondering about getting and tethering a Dragonfly in between my iPhone and the Extreme 3? Worth it on the deck? | |
| Speakers for the deck- okay to discuss here? Thanks |