decooney
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| Struggling to spend 13k with three dealers Sometimes when things get too complicated, or become overly time consuming to figure out with "endless conversations", attention goes elsewhere. | |
| RCA interconnect recommendation @stuartk fwiw I obsessively test both inter-mixed and identical cables end-to-end from sources, to preamps, to amps. In different types and orders too. While each cable is "not supposed to have a signature" according to some folks self guided rul... | |
| RCA interconnect recommendation @stuartk ...This may make it more difficult to choose between the Silver and Copper cables. We'll see. . . Good point and agree with your suggestion. It can be system dependent, and results can vary. While I have both in other brands I went... | |
| Not manufactured any more. @jdoris "...Gallo series. Could sound very good indeed, and at very reasonable price point, esp. by the standards of today’s hobby. I briefly had a pair of 3.5s or 3.6s, but could not get them to sing with the 30wpc amp I was running. I expect t... | |
| Not manufactured any more. Another EV. Electro-Voice Georgian II | |
| Not manufactured any more. @mijostyn ..."I have no desire to resurrect the past. The present is so much better." One can learn from the past to observe, refine, redesign, restyle and optimize. Many cool designs you see today with speakers are spawned and resurrected from... | |
| Not manufactured any more. Retro Simple Style: some of the older plain looking vintage Magnepan SMG type speakers were really cool too. | |
| Not manufactured any more. A lot was going on down in the bay areas while we had our oddity speaker builders and companies designing and building different stuff up here in NorCal. All disappeared now. This thread is such a blast through the past, thanks for that oldhvymec.... | |
| Spatial X5 speakers @jaymark Totally on the same page with you about trying different amps and not just looking at wattage alone. The Pass XA-25 and some of the Firstwatt amps have proven that its more about quality than quantity of watts. Select output transistors a... | |
| Spatial X5 speakers A related "Spatial M3 vs. what-Amps-to-use" thread on similar topics just two years ago, for what its worth... https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/spatial-m3-triode-master-preamp-amp-choices | |
| Not manufactured any more. A fun and enjoyable thread for sure! :) Or less commonly seen pair of Kef-105s form the same era. | |
| Not manufactured any more. How many of you remember walking into a regular hi-fi audio store regularly seeing Altec 19s sitting there. These always captured my eye for some reason. | |
| Spatial X5 speakers Good reference point @wassaicwill Yes, LTA sells a package with the (13-watt) LTA Z10 amp and Spatial M3 speakers. SYSTEM: Z10 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER + SPATIAL AUDIO M3 SAPPHIRE SPEAKERS + LAMPIZATOR AMBER 3 DAC + FREE ANTICABLES SPEAKER WIRES... | |
| Default standard for speaker "sensitivity" measurement listings? Anechoic? In-room? Other? Look closely at the graph, box#1 (83.3db) at 500hz, and box#2 (83.7db) at 1kHz. @russ69 "Except that is where we all end up listening to their products." Yep, the bottom line is how do they sound in your room, on your system. | |
| Spatial X5 speakers @ozzy62 As I mentioned before, the 20 watts of a Decware Torii were not enough to drive X3s to a satisfying level. Good to know. A colleague of mine did not have much luck with his DW Tori II either. He resold it for other SET amps with half t... |