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| Replacing surround with sound bar ghdprentice, if the audio of the 85" Sony weren't so good I'd be more motivated to fire up the Ayre preamp and set it to by-pass, fire up the Bryston SB-3 and select TV input, but Sony really has done a job with the audio of that TV. I think I mi... | |
| Replacing surround with sound bar I think I would use surround more if it were provided automatically by the TV. I haven't used the eARC/HDMI converter enough to know if it transmits surround. I do use HDMI from the Ayre DX-5 DSD to the Bryston SP3 for Blu-rays. In my OP I didn... | |
| Replace Ayre gear & kEF Reference 1s with KEF LS60s? I listened today via Roon to the Ayre gear and KEF Reference 1s. The sound is so good I've decided to keep that setup and sell other gear to cover the cost of LS60. It comes down to a 3-tier rack of Ayre gear and two speakers or a 1-tier rack wi... | |
| LIST ALL YHE SPEAKERS YOU HAVE OWNED THEN TILL NOW! Altec 604 in DIY Altec enclosure Altec A7-500 (borrowed from psychoacoustic lab as grad student) AR3a (Post Doc) KEF Reference 102 KEF Reference 104/2 KEF Reference 107/2 KEF Reference 1s KEF LS50 W2 Next: KEF LS60 | |
| Replace Ayre gear & kEF Reference 1s with KEF LS60s? FYI, after two days of debilitation from an unknown cause, I've decided to proceed with the plan outlined in my OP. I plan to list the Ayre gear, KEF Reference 1s, and Salamander rack at AudioMart once I learn how to do it. When enough gear is s... | |
| Centers - Go big or go home The front LR speakers are KEF Reference 1s that match the KEF Reference 204/2C center well, although at over 3.5’ wide and nearly 100 pounds with 5 speakers the 204/2C seems designed to match the large KEF Reference 207/2s. It is a handsome piece ... | |
| Centers - Go big or go home This thread reminds me that I haven’t reconnected my KEF Reference 204/2C center speaker. It got disconnected when I consolidated to a single rack of Ayre gear for 2 channel. I’ve decided to use a small rack to hold the pair of NAD Class D amps th... | |
| speakers for small room KEF Reference 1 Metas | |
| What do/did you do for a living? retired director of a research center that mostly developed speech understanding technology | |
| TV audio mijostyn, the audio setups I'm not using for TV are a rack of Ayre gear with KEF Ref.1s (85" Sony) and LS50 W2 (75" Sony) | |
| TV audio I have 2023 75" and 85" Sony XR Bravo TVs, both in rooms with audio setups I don't use, because the audio of the TV is so good. I reserve the audio setups for Roon and Blue Rays. | |
| Too much processing? HDMI Main goes to your video, HDMI audio to your Marantz. IIRC, the Oppo remote will control both. | |
| TV size for Sonos arc A small rack with stacked NAD Class D amps and the Bryston SP3 on top could be very tidy and the LS50s are wired through the walls, so perhaps the Sonos could supplement rather than replace my surround setup. I have some orchestral Blu-rays that ... | |
| KEF LS50 Wireless II vs. Harbeth P3esr I wonder if what OP likes is the sound introduced by the tubes in his setup rather than anything specific to the speakers. I preferred the sound when I used vintage Cary SET monoblocks with a pair of KEF 104/2s to that when I used a Parasound 21 s... | |
| Magnapan LRS placement I think I’ve reached two general conclusions. (1) If I didn’t already have the KEF Reference 1s I'd be happy with the LRSs, and (2) the LRSs are not quite the Reference 1s. I most noticed the second when I played a bit of Mahler’s 2nd symphony and... |