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| Seeking Bookshelf Recommendations In a small room you’ll get the best results/least room boundary interaction with a sealed/acoustic suspension speaker. They are few and far between, but well worth seeking out. I’ve had 4 or 5 pairs of sealed speakers in my small home office and g... | |
| My new review for The Absolute Sound comparing AGD GAN amps with BHK300’s On so many threads here, some audio hooligan shows up, bristling with self-appointed importance & "expertise," and proceeds to drag the thread into snark and recrimination. Always a bummer to encounter this stuff.... | |
| Buying Used Speakers I have repeatedly purchased used speakers in my life. The biggest was the first: a pair of Vandersteen’s then-TOTL, the Model 4. I bought them from a west coast seller via an intermediary firm that handled the money (kind of a broker, ensuring the... | |
| Could Class D really be that good? My nearfield desktop audio system is very crowded and had no space for an A/B or A amp of any kind when I switched to passive monitors ~6 years ago. Thus I was pushed into the alien (to me) world of class D amps. I did a ton of research, looking i... | |
| Some thoughts on ASR and the reviews ASR is a waste of time for me. Everytime I click on an ASR link I end up regretting it. Then to have their cult leader show up here ... let's just say that anyone who posts 7X in a row needs medication. How do I know? As a great comedian said, "... | |
| Example of a piece o’ crap, useless review I subscribed to TAS, STEREOPHILE, and any other audio mags I could get starting >40 years ago. And of course, I've read a ton of 1/2-baked reviews in that time. Rather than trash this or that reviewer, I'd rather talk about one who is far abov... | |
| New Class D amplifiers One of the two amps I’m about to mention is hardly new. But I thought my experience might be of interest to to those whose primary interest in class D is musical realism & ear-friendly tonality, not just accuracy and detail. I have a rather c... | |
| Dog pissed on speaker I have no suggestions but just want to express my gratitude for the resonant thread title. | |
| Paypal drastic changes This entire thing annoys me to no end. I researched it pretty thoroughly, and it looks like I'll never pay tax unless I profit on the sale, which I never ever do. So there's that. My return is already complicated. But this won't complicate it fur... | |
| Stuff You Tried To Love (uhmm, I think it's "Bach Partitas") To get back to the regret-drenched topic of this thread: some years ago I went through a long period of researching passive volume controllers. I had been using a very nice sounding, transformer based PVC from... | |
| Best Covers Two great covers from different eras: This is a Julliard-trained operatic coloratura soprano who sings terrific R&B (there aren't many like her). Morgan James covering "Lay Down Sally" And New Orleans finest crooner, "The Tan Canary"... | |
| Do You Buy Speakers Without Hearing Them? I started buying speakers (all kinds and sizes) in the early '80s. Probably a dozen to a dozen and a half pairs since then, all but one or two used. I'm pretty sure I heard only one of those speakers very briefly before buying (in a noisy showroom... | |
| He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable. This is one of the sadder things I've read in awhile. While this man's "problem" is perhaps the pennultimate example of a "first world problem," his personal and family pathology, his failure to love and nurture due to his obsession, and his will... | |
| DAC upgrade (addressing the OP) It’s really up to you to specify your sonic preferences. In this thread you have solid recommendations for divergent types of DACs: Those that are highly resolving, "accurate," and detailed above all else (ie, Weiss; Chord; ... | |
| Floor to Bookshelf Easy recommendation: ATC sealed/acoustic suspension 2-ways. You could get the SCM12 Pros new for <$2K; or the SCM19 or SCM20 passives on a used basis. I own the SCM12 Pros. The sound is mindblowingly good: assertive, detailed, dynamic beyond b... |