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| Harshness in Midrange??? Any Help It's not the cables, it's the placement of the speakers within the room. Get that right before messing around with cables and components. See:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/frr.pl?rspkr&1197744079&read&3&4& | |
| Parsifals vs Mahlers - best for what I got? You'll need all of that 3' for the Mahlers, but it'll work, IMHO, give or take an inch or two. If you like the Mahlers, then the Strauss will look as good and allow you a little closer to the wall. Either will make Wasserman sound like he's in you... | |
| Feds to audiophiles: You're all pirates now mp3 and audiophile don't belong in the same sentence, do they? | |
| Considering going Vinyl--Please talk me out of it Elinor, you're suggesting a $10,000 CD/Disc player vs. a $3000 vinyl front-end to get comparable quality levels. I don't think that's very close. There are several intergrated TT/arm/cartridge possibilities that compete with the excellent EMM play... | |
| Cash burning a hole What to upgrade? Sumiko speaker set:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?rspkr&1197744079&read&3&zzlDcstep&& | |
| Is it best to leave gear on or to shut it off? I don't think it's a question of vintage vs. modern, but solid state vs. tube.I kept my Bryston amp and pre-amp on almost 25-years and it sounded great all the time. I wouldn't do that with tube equipment, since there's more likelyhood of a tube f... | |
| Review: Sumiko Speaker Set Speaker Yes, that's a very good question about stability.I don't think that an amp change is a worry, but moving the speakers,even a little, is a concern. Moving the armoire would be a potential issue, but the other furniture is out of the sound path. I'm... | |
| Review: Sumiko Speaker Set Speaker Thanks for joining in. Sumiko has been doing this long enough that there's got to be more people on Audiogone that have experienced it.I first experienced it in Soundings' own shop. I listened to the Beethoven Grands and thought that they sounded ... | |
| Speakers with high WAF? Any Vienna Acoustics speaker. I love my Beethoven Baby Grands. The furniture finish is as good as anything in the house and they sound fantastic.Dave | |
| Life after Aerial 10Ts... Don't avoid metal tweeters, just listen to what you like and chose based on your ears. Since you own Aerials, you've got a good reference, now just go listen without preconceived limitations.Dave | |
| An Audiophile Goal Why doesn't enjoyment define an audiophile? let's explore that some. You could have a system that's absolutely flat from 20Hz to 20kHz at 88dB. My system, OTOH rolls off at 30Hz and starts rolling off at the top after 12kHz (and it has anomalies t... | |
| Life after Aerial 10Ts... If WAF and sound are both of close weighting then, by all means, look at the Vienna Acoustics line. I've got some really nice furniture and artist wooden boxes and the VAs fit right in. I ordered the maple ones to go with my archtop guitars and a ... | |
| Life after Aerial 10Ts... I really enjoyed the 10Ts and came very close to buying a pair. Ultimately, after thinking about it for several years and coming back into a changed market, I went with the Vienna Acoustics Beethoven Baby Grands. The woodworking on the VAs is abso... | |
| Stereophile Article - Holt telling it like it is. $3000 in 1967 dollars is about $18,000 today. I don't have that much invested today.Dave | |
| An Audiophile Goal Acoustat6 said:"Opalchip or others, please explain to me why you would change the volume level for different LPs, whether it be up or down, and what this can accomplish. Just how do you know where each was recorded? Or which LPs should be played b... |