danheather
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| Is anyone else getting annoyed with... I sincerely hope that A'goN does something to remedy this. It's becoming increasingly prevalent and truly distracts from the "browsing" experience. While it may seem a good strategy for advertisers, it's a real slippery slope for AudiogoN. I don't... | |
| What is the right thing here................ Porschecab...I would make the drive and investigate further before ANY offer of reimbursement. As you pointed out, this whole transaction sounded shady from the beginning. How do you even know if the drivers are truly mis-matched? Because he told ... | |
| Speaker Stands For the Sonus Faber Concertinos I gotta' tell you fullrun...I've been, as you, looking for the absolute best deal on a pair of stands that are true "reference quality" and there are so few good ones out there that it's frustrating. Virtually every "budget" stand out there is VER... | |
| Speaker Stands For the Sonus Faber Concertinos Unfortunately, the Concertinos require a taller stand than 24", otherwise I would STRONGLY recommend that you pickup a pair of the Osiris stands being closed out here on the AudiogoN. They are massive, yet elegant. These are truly well-engineered ... | |
| How grills affect? Many speaker designers will make accomodations for the effects of the grill cloth and will make the tweeter a bit "hotter" to compensate.I don't think that there are any hard and fast rules. I've always found it best to just try it both ways and s... | |
| Suggestions for Maggie replacements. Whoa Tuna! The question was USED speakers for $600-700, not NEW speakers for $500-700 as you suggest.The Kestrals (non hot-rod) are $1295, but can easily be had for $600-700 USED, as specified by Shiram.It's obvious that you're a BIG fan of the Ti... | |
| Suggestions for Maggie replacements. Take a look at the Meadowlark Kestral. You probably won't find the "hot rod" version for that price, but the "stock" version can be had in the $600 range. They're beautiful to look at (most are finished in rosewood), have a very small (WAF friendl... | |
| Poorman's ML 390 CDP Proceed makes a cdp (Madrigal family) that's based on the same conceptual design as the 390. You can find one used for about $900. | |
| Personal speaker evolution 1) OHM WALSH 2 (Hand-me-down from my father - $800)2) Boston Acoustics T-1020 ($700 "floor model")3) Magnepan MGIIB ($500 used)4) PLATINUM AUDIO SOLO* ($1,400 before Platinum went under)5) Hales Concept 2 (Traded my beloved Solos)6) Aerial Acousti... | |
| What speakers for a 10 x10 room? Lots of posts on this particular topic - one of which was posted by me a few months back!I, too owned the Aerial Model 5s and purchased them specifically for my small room (11X12). They really were terrific placed on the factory (24") stands.I als... | |
| Aerial 6's lighter in the low end than the 7b's... I owned the Model 5s (wonderful speakers, by the way), which only go down to about 70hz. I called Aerial and spoke with Michael Kelly to discuss how to extract a bit more of the lowest octaves from them.During our conversation, he told me that the... | |
| Am I the only one who thinks B&W is mid-fi? "They must have done something right in order to stay afloat all these years."Jayt...I guess we could make the same argument about Bose too, right? *They've* been "afloat" for a long time. Perhaps we've just never heard them setup with the right e... | |
| Can I start some trouble? Not sure what that means, nor how many "points" are on your scale, but if I understand correctly, I'd just round up to 3. (2.866)Not to detract from this particular thread, but now I'm interested in understanding the point system that you've devel... | |
| Can I start some trouble? Marakanetz...Couldn't we just break it down to the lowest common denominator with your "point" system and call it 4 points for source and 1 point for cables.Just asking...I'm no "mathematician", but I did study fractions in 4th grade. :)All in goo... | |
| Am I the only one who thinks B&W is mid-fi? I tend to agree with Mikez. Let's not discredit him just because he's new to the site. Time will tell if he's just a s#!t disturber.I listened to the Nautilus 800s (absolutely gorgeous to look at) played through an all Levinson setup.390S CDP/Proc... |