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| Speaker upgrade for classical music One word: Vandersteen. The best, most consistently pleasing sound I’ve yet heard from multi-driver speakers came from Vandersteen.This is how you get that slightly warm, spacious sound in a room: the 6 dB/octave crossovers & set-back driver pl... | |
| Are there speakers with cloth/soft enclosures instead of wood? Don't forget Vandersteen 4's. All you see is the top & bottom oak caps & that big black sock wrapping 95% of the speaker. I've seen pictures of the Vandy 4s sans sock. Very odd looking thing: a very strong central tower of various speaker ... | |
| "Musical" subwoofers? Advice please on comparing JL subs I have the e110 & know it to be an excellent subwoofer. It is accurate; tuneful (standup bass vs electric bass vs baritone clarinet all sound quite different--as they do IRL); goes plenty low for me; and has more than enough power for me.It la... | |
| What Audio Religion have you converted others to successfully? I’m going to answer your question seriously--because it seems like a serious question, well-posed.All I try to convey to others whenever discussing audio gear & music reproduction is my preference for gear that sounds as much as possible like ... | |
| How old are you? I'm 738 years old (a vampire) | |
| I Was Considering Active, Then I Watched This ... I’ve had 3 sets of powered speakers/monitors on my desktop system. None were from big-name/big-quality studio monitor specialists such as Genelec, ATC, Hedd, and so on. I ended up moving away from powered monitors for 2 reasons, both somewhat pecu... | |
| Dearly departed Music Reference RM9 clio09, believe it or not, I'm just now seeing your reply. I hate that these 2 amazing RM-9s (both v1, both modded by Roger to be triode/pentode switchable on each output tube) sitting in a closet gather dust for decades. I'd love to sell them--bu... | |
| The NAD M33 will cancel your complaints about Class D +1 to twoleftears. I read that review and found it fascinating. I’m very familiar w/Herb Reichert’s reviews, his system and idiosyncratic ways of approaching reviews; also met him at an audio show & liked him a lot (he's an interesting guy...... | |
| High end Class D amps? +1 to Flatblackround on Wyred4Sound. I'm running the ST-500 into ATC SCM-12 Pro passive monitors; preamp is the Violectric V281. The sound is superb.A convenience asset: I contacted W4S to ask if I could situate the ST-500 on its side due to cramp... | |
| Analog vs digital? I had a medium big-buck analog set-up vs early digital. It was absolutely no contest.I've had a succession of digital systems in desktop audio setup ever since. Over the years digital has definitely gotten better: expecially w/multibit or NOS/mult... | |
| Should I use long interconnects, or long speaker cables? Conventional wisdom is to use long interconnects, rather than long speaker cables--the theory being that long runs will do less damage to low signal than high/amplified signal.I put the theory to use in my 1st house, where the big Vandersteen 4 sp... | |
| R2R Ladder DACs or All in One Streamer Solutions +1 on MHDT Labs Orchid. Love NOS & love that DAC. In fact, it makes me curious what the other MHDT models sound like. BTW, Linear Tube Audio, the U.S. distributor for MHDT Labs, was kind enough to add a 2nd RCA output pair on the back of my un... | |
| Newbie, need advice. Despite the claims of a poster above, I've had 2 DACs in a row that are 2.5V output or more. My current favorite DAC, the MHDT Labs Orchid NOS DAC, outputs 3V. That's a true pain-in-the-ass; difficult (but not impossible) to get the gain of downst... | |
| Looking for a vinylesk sounding DAC I see people on this & other threads really trashing NOS DACs on technical grounds. I also see certain measurement-centric (vs listening-centric) audio sites trashing NOS DACs.If you really want to get closer to vinyl/analog sound while stayin... | |
| Warm romantic & detailed One word answer: Vandersteen |