douglas_schroeder
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| ...do great speakers increase in value over time in the vintage market? Anyone want to buy a mint pair of Realistic Minimus 7 Speakers in white for $700? They were such GREAT compact monitors! So much better than all the wooden boxes now! Guarantee you would like the sound better than Harbeth! Use lamp cord to put the... | |
| ...do great speakers increase in value over time in the vintage market? I've done my time (like brief prison sentences) with various vintage gear. I would never turn to vintage to get superior sound, and in my estimated 99% of the cases are lousy "investments ".Vintage is good for nostalgia. Buy at your own significan... | |
| ...do great speakers increase in value over time in the vintage market? Yeah, let's just forget inflation in order to come to the simplistic conclusion that you really get ahead with a vintage piece of gear. Not to mention the ever present possibility of repairs, which BTW, would not be cheap. Let's not forget that si... | |
| Singular Amplification Experience; Review Now Published tweak1, you may be right... You know the answer; only direct comparison would tell. If I built 10 rigs with five speakers, and the competing amp performed at an equivalently amazing level as the XA200.8, and at half or less than the price of the ... | |
| DIY "HiFi" cables - and why I don't trust BJC and the likes All huffing and puffing, posturing etc. duly noted, what still remains true is this; any given cable may be superior to any other, and only comparison will tell. | |
| Choice between 2 speaker cable types. +1 noromanceWith loss in speaker cabling at that length, and with cost of quality speaker cables, I strongly recommend an alternative solution. I suggest you go mono amp and place them right next to speakers, using quite short speaker cables and ... | |
| Legacy Whisper Steradian DSP Talk...to...Legacy. There is an intermediate solution, the previous "Wavelet", a Xilica unit. | |
| Singular Amplification Experience; Review Now Published Part 3 now published. The community will see that the XA200.8 was premier with a wide variety of speakers, something that has never occurred previously in 14 years. ESL, Line source, hybrid dynamic, Open Baffle, Horn hybrid - all were brought to n... | |
| Legacy Whisper Steradian DSP I suggest you speak with Legacy Audio and get a newer processor for the speakers. | |
| powercords EVERY cable including unbilicals and, digital, USB, Ethernet, etc. Is critical if you want to do more than play at it. | |
| Who Here is Vertical Bi-Amping? Don't get too hung up on all this. Any given method (stereo amp, bi-amp, passive x-over, active x-over) in one system can better any given method in another. Which is better? Stereo ampPassive bi-amp (vertical or horizontal)Monos with bi-wiringAct... | |
| Speaker match for Chord DAVE and D'Agostino Progression Integrated Well, yes, form follows function. I can put up with a lot of unusual form for the atypical function! Enjoy the hunt! | |
| Speaker match for Chord DAVE and D'Agostino Progression Integrated Genre as in dynamic, panel (either magnetic planar or electrostatic), horn, line source, etc. | |
| Speaker match for Chord DAVE and D'Agostino Progression Integrated What genre of speakers do you prefer? | |
| to my ears digital audio does not sound natural? something is wrong! The correct answer is better gear. You can't get there with a dreamy recording and cheap gear. |