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| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? @dave_b Watch Steve Guttenberg’s YT video “Are audiophiles BS ing themselves about sound? This sums it up for me! SG: "recalibrate your expectations to what’s really going down", unquote. Talking about old sound vs. new sound, ...has anyo... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? @mrdecibel @decooney I apologize to you. You stated in your post, " relative to amps and speakers ", and I took it somewhere else. My best ! MrD. No apology necessary, no limits here ...this merely highlights there are many different factors... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? re: "tube microphones", there is a well known amplifier manufacturer in the USA, who's last designer left the company to go form his own company designing and building new tube microphones after his hobby turned in to a business. Still a bit under... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? @jjss49 ... perfect synopsis of this is to compare the old school spendor classic 100/sp100/r2 sound vs their modern sound d9 or d7 series ..."am sure he will correct me if i am wrong on this" Nope, not wrong at all, no correction necess... | |
| Describe the "new HiFi sound"? In my case, when I slowly migrated through 70s-90s velvety sounding mosfet solid state amplifiers I then moved towards EL34 / KT88 ultralinear and other triode tube amps still holding some of that same type of familiar golden era velvety sound. Sp... | |
| New speakers or new tubes @fsgattuso ..."However, maybe due to the lower efficiency of the Thiels, they don’t sound great in triode mode. When the sound mellows out as it does in that mode it is now too flat and lifeless," Do you notice it’s quite a bit worse at lowe... | |
| New speakers or new tubes @tablejockey Switching the stock EL34’s to KT88’s, KT120 or KT150 will result in more bass. The trade off is losing the EL34 midrange. KT77 will retain the EL34 mids with increased bass, not as pronounced, but you may find it to be a good com... | |
| Harbeth 40.3's. Should I buy them? @jjss49 that is super helpful intel. Knowing what amps were used in designs and optimized to operate with certain speakers, sure can save people a lot of time. Was not aware of the design origin of the 6550 amp / Proac combo. Interesting. | |
| Are you interested in the new generation of "old school" design loudspeakers? Interesting how any wide front baffle 3-way is now considered by some as "old school". Sounds like old is new again. | |
| Harbeth 40.3's. Should I buy them? @bassdude ...As I noted before, mine didn’t sound great, until I got the H590 to drive them properly. Now they do! +1 what @avanti1960 said too. Harbeth, Spatial, Legacy, Quad 57s - all can sound good when paired up with robust amplifica... | |
| Harbeth 40.3's. Should I buy them? Regarding the X3's, I shouldn't be running subs according to the manufacturer of my integrated. Start with speakers, then the amplifier. If this is the truly the case according to your amp manufacturer, imo the amplifier is a limiting factor - ... | |
| Digital coax cables @jtcf yes, while I won’t digress into any debate by some on this topic - I went this route myself. Compared back and forth quite a bit and stayed. Yes, moved from .5/1.0m, to my last two pairs of AP and Cardas digital coax spdif are 1.5M. | |
| We should reject hard-to-drive speakers more often IMO, electrostatic speakers are worth it. Very worth it. Like, never imagined recorded music could sound like this, worth it. ... ... Good news is that class D amps are improving quickly. I’m auditioning a D-Sonic M3a-1200s, based on the Pas... | |
| Harbeth 40.3's. Should I buy them? @desalvo55 The X3’s have built-in 15" powered subwoofers. Let me re-phrase it. That wasn’t the point of the question. It was about whether or you tried the X3s with "different/separate subwoofers", or not. If I’m understanding your reply, t... | |
| Harbeth 40.3's. Should I buy them? @desalvo55 by chance did you try your X3s paired up with really fast subwoofers? While we understand you currently have subs, wondering if positioning of the X3 must be closer to the wall, curious to know what experimentation you did with differe... |