dennis_the_menace
Responses from dennis_the_menace
| Recommend a forward speaker hey Dlee... haven't heard the Coincidents. I heard the Totem Model 1, which sounded great, tho not really appropriate for a medium large room. Didn't like the Focal speakers I heard, but haven't heard JM Lab, maybe they're more refined. I heard th... | |
| Recommend a forward speaker Never heard Vandersteen. These are reputed to be warm and forgiving speakers, which are the opposite of what I like. If you like Vandersteen you probably won't like Piegas. | |
| Recommend a forward speaker It was the Be-718 monitor and Be-10 floorstander, both in the Dancer series. The Be-10 is one down from their flagship model, and is a bit more than the Piega retail. If you thought the Usher was great, you have to hear the Piega. | |
| Recommend a forward speaker hey Mrjstark... I auditioned both the monitor (218 be?) and the AC 10 Be. Upstream components were a Plinius preamp, a Cary 303 CD player using the solid state output at it's highest sampling rate, and a Cary CAD 120 amp in ultralinear mode. The m... | |
| Recommend a forward speaker What I heard was in the midrange area, and actually, throughout the spectrum. Each note, each instrument and voice, felt dis-integrated from the whole. I could easily analyze every individual note, but never felt like they all came together cohesi... | |
| Recommend a forward speaker I actually liked the bass on the Sophias, it wasn't exaggerated, unlike the Audio Physics which felt too large for the room. I also liked the presentation of the Sophias. But there was definitely something unreal about the decay. The Parsifals don... | |
| Recommend a forward speaker Update... I heard both the Wilson Sophia and Audio Physic Avanti. I didn't feel either outperformed the Parsifal. The Wilson's were more forward, and detailed, and I liked that, but they were also very artificial, they had a very unnaturally trunc... | |
| Anyone compare Devore and Harbeth speakers? FWIW, Harbeths do much better w/ solid state, they tend to be much too polite/boring w/ tubes. | |
| Recommend a forward speaker i've got a lot of suggestions on both audiogon and audioasylum. before jumping onto a new speaker purchase, i've decided to do a bunch of auditioning of speakers that might be more my liking and are also within relatively close geographic proximit... | |
| Recommend a forward speaker thanks duke. appreciate the thoughts. you're right, how the music is miked makes a huge impact. it's just that the parsifals present everything with a recessed midrange. i know folks recommended the wilsons. i hate how they look, and they're wicke... | |
| Recommend a forward speaker great suggestion newbee, i agree, duke is da' bomb. i'll look him up... | |
| Recommend a forward speaker I'm going to audition some Audio Physics in the next couple weeks, spoke to a local dealer here. Will also try and find a place to audition the JM Labs and ATCs.I don't think going to an Arcam is the best idea, considering I've got an Emm Labs set... | |
| Recommend a forward speaker Lots of suggestions. Thanks everyone. Couple specific response:Wilson: out of my price range. I need to be able to swap the Verity for the new speaker without losing money.Merlins: heard them, not sure they'd work in my room, which is sort of larg... | |
| Swiss amps I've got a Girard Perregaux that is beautiful and works flawlessly. That is, until you drop it on a carpeted floor, and the mechanism gets knocked out of place and needs a $450 adjustment. I've worn the watch maybe 6 months total and have had in t... | |
| Silver-plated or single metal IC's? Purist Venustas cables I had were never bright or aggressive and they are silver plated copper. In fact, they were a bit too muddy in the lower midrange/upper bass area and not fast enough for my new speakers that I had to switch to all silver. No... |