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| Surprised at this Chinese powered speakers for peanuts... I have a larger/more powerful variant of the Edifier, the Swan M200 MKIII (powered 2-way w/5.25" woofer & unique backward sloping speaker case). The Swan is physically very similar to the top-of-the-line Edifier. My guess is they're made in th... | |
| Speakers for a small room If it were me, I'd get either Quad S2 or Ascend Acoustic Sierra 2 bookshelf speakers (both get raves) & stand mount them. I'd also get a pair of SVS SB-1000 or SB-2000 subs. And I'd finish that with a Marchand electronic crossover to divide si... | |
| The awakening... Interesting post: an "audiophile conversion/epiphany" narrative. I can relate (sort of).Nearly 30 years ago I had my dream audiophile system set up in my 1st house: big Vandersteen 4s, tube amps, tube preamp, top notch tuner, TT, a couple modded e... | |
| What unknown musical artist would you like to share with your fellow audiophiles? David Hykes and The Harmonic Choir. Album, "Hearing Solar Winds" (1 of the cuts is played in link below).If you can imagine Tuvan throat-singing adapted to droning chant in highly reverberant spaces...well, you just have to hear it.If you like tra... | |
| Speakers with the most detailed midrange? (non-ESL/planar) +1 on ATC. I'm running a pair of ATC SCM12 Pros on desktop system (powered by a Wyred 4 Sound ST-500). The mids are among the most detailed, information-rich I've ever heard. A bit forward but not bright or peaky. It's a 2-way w/enough bass & ... | |
| Recommendation for DAC needed. I have 2 multibit DACs (Audio GD DAC-19; and NOS 19). The NOS DAC is in my primary system. Both have stopped my "digital quest" in its tracks, at least for the time being. So if I upgrade at all, it will have to be to even better multibit DACs. Si... | |
| Any meaningful differences... I do most of my listening to a pretty good quality desktop audio system these days, with or without headphones. One of my headphone amp/preamps, the Violectric V281, is a very fine system preamp, as good as any I used in the big 2-channel system d... | |
| best interconnect at decent price I second another poster's comment about Transparent's "The Link." I've also had excellent results with Audioquest's Black Mamba ICs (widely available at sites like Music Fidelity & Audio Advisor). In my experience, the cheapest yet good-soundi... | |
| Magico A3 vs. Joseph Audio Perspective vs. Spendor D9 I'm enjoying this thread immensely. Audio really gets more interesting when people dwell on their subjective impressions/experiences of this or that speaker, as compared to spec-wars about them.It's also quite amusing to see something play out her... | |
| Does anyone care to ask an amplifier designer a technical question? My door is open. Roger, glad to see you pop up in this thread. I still own 2 RM-9s from the mid-1980s. At my request, you modded each to become pentode/triode switchable (dropping total power from 100 wpc pentode to 50 wpc triode). That amp in triode mode + Vande... | |
| My first Tube Amplifier 1st (and last) tube amp was the Music Reference RM-9. I had 2 of them. Had both modified by the mfr to be pentode/triode switchable (a switch mounted next to each of the 8 tube sockets). With EL34s or KT88s, triode was a taste of heaven IMO--at th... | |
| More expensive DAC the answer? forgot link to R-1:http://www.audio-gd.com/R2R/R1/R1EN.htm | |
| More expensive DAC the answer? You have to spring for the current model, R-1 (link below), &799 + shipping. That's not dirt-cheap, but it's still way less than most balanced output DACs. BTW, Schitt may have something cheaper w/balanced outs. Not sure about that. | |
| 84k speakers... Big disappointment Sorry to hear about your bad experience. Perhaps it's time to return to "speaker basics," focusing on the tried & true, successful names & designs. A few ideas for floorstanders of quality from:-- Spendor Audio-- ATC (I own the SCM12 Pro..... | |
| Can you live with your current speaker until you die? funny question. it would be easier to answer if I knew my death date well in advance... |