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| Are your speakers designed for your listening taste and hearing ability? One of the posts above says, " So now there is no objective reality, only subjective preferences?"Actually, there is an objective reality--it's called music performed in real space. And since no audio system, either high $$ audiophile type or mas... | |
| Life is too short to buy someone else's favorite stereo gear Before developing our own preferences based on experience, we tend to rely on the expressed preferences of others. Even later, after we have your own body of sonic evidence to draw upon (via buying & selling gear), other people's preferences a... | |
| Help me understand John Coltrane .... seriously. I second other posts about listening to the Miles' albums first; also "Ballads."Maybe even better would be "Duke Ellington and John Coltrane," the 1962 recording in which each of these great musicians gracefully gave up ground to meet the other in... | |
| Battle of the unknowns... (cable companies) +1 on Audio Art (I have one power cable) & Signal Cable (I have 4 or 5 power cable & 1/2 dozen ICs). Very solid, good sounding wires all around. | |
| There's a lot more bass in a 6.5" driver than most of you think I agree with Erik, not based on measurements, but my own ears. I do all my listening via a complex desktop audio setup. I've had 5-6 different powered speakers + passives here, and the top of the heap is the ATC SCM12 Pro passives. These have 6" w... | |
| Forever speakers around $5000 Having an amazing experience w/a pair of ATC passive monitors in my desktop system (SCM12 Pro)--an unusual combination of very musical & extremely revealing/accurate. If it were me, I'd be interested in either of the following for 2-channel/l... | |
| Go Active Crossover or Upgrade existing XOs? I looked at pictures of the Tannoy FSMs. Hard to tell from pictures, but it appears to be a fairly complex passive 4-way design. On the back I see what look like 4 pairs of R/L speaker cable binding posts.I have used a high-quality 2-way electroni... | |
| Could this be one reason tubes (and perhaps records) sound better? If you suffer from tinnitus (I do), it becomes difficult to not hear your interior, artificially high noise floor. I'm one of the lucky ones who doesn't hear distinct notes, transients, or percussive sounds.White noise is one of several perceptual... | |
| $27,500 for whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat??? I have 2 pairs of these Wilsons. I got them at Walmart for a great price!When I heard about the paint upgrade I immediately whipped out my credit card and signed up X 2. Momma didn't raise no fool... | |
| How much do you need to spend to get digital to rival analog? 35 yrs ago I had a fully vinyl rig set up to compete with a heavily modded magnavox player du jour (which did sound way better than other players of the day). I had many vinyl/CD repeats and auditioned them extensively, one after the other (throug... | |
| The 5 stages of making a bad audio purchase Quite obviously a 12-step program will not suffice for this particular addiction...And for what it's worth, I'm amused and yes, even a bit surprised, that anyone could make a conflict/flame-session about this particular topic. That takes real effo... | |
| VPI's new "Vanquish" Ultra High-End turntable is a STUNNER! @jsautter, what was your experience meeting Matt?I don't have a TT at this point in my life (nowhere to put a giant system in current house). I do miss my vinyl, but after reading this piece, t's almost a relief to not be in the game... I know man... | |
| Bookshelf Speakers that have to be up against the wall In my home office's desktop audio system, I've had 4-5 pairs of speakers over the past 12-13 years (2 powered; 3 passive). All were located w/in ~1 foot of the front wall (actually an inset picture window covered with heavy blinds). The main thing... | |
| Broken hearted...magnepan and vandersteen Richard Vandersteen has spent his whole professional life perfecting use of first-order crossovers to get exactly that unmistakeably musical voicing out of his designs. I had (still have/in storage) his flagship model from the 1980s, the Vanderste... | |
| Cconfused... It’s an unfortunate fact that no audio system--regardless of size & price--can even come close to the power & scope of live music (or live in studio music). So those of use who love audio gear as a means of enjoying music are left with cho... |