fleschler
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| Best speakers around $130k? Okay, I currently own Legacy Focus (98db 4 ohm/low at 2.8 ohm) and Signature IIIs (94db 4 ohm). They are easy to drive using EAR 890, custom 125 watt Class A/B and Dynaco (highly modified) ST70 tube amps and the 35 watt Yamaha CR620 receiver. I in... | |
| Efficient speaker: Zu, Tekton, Volti, Klipsch, Fleetwood? The Cherry finished pair of Legacy Focuses (98db, maybe actually 96.4db) originals for moderate to large size rooms. Conventional but nice looking. Or 94db, easier to drive (30 tube watts-loud and punchy bass) Legacy Signature IIIs (only know o... | |
| Best speakers around $130k? @mozartfan - My friend's Von Schweikert VR-35 Export is a fantastic speaker with 1st order crossovers at 80 Hz and 6K Hz, essentially a full range driver (pair) with subwoofer and supertweeter. With a McIntosh C20 and RM-9 pre and amp, it reprod... | |
| Best speakers around $130k? My friends and I heard the Botticellis at an audio show. Playing bass clarinet low notes, they were astounding. The trio played was superb. Unfortunately, they underpowered them for bigger jazz. We must go to the showroom to audition them wi... | |
| Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears 90% of Claudia Muzio recordings will reduce me to tears (and every time I see the end of Madame Butterfly live at the LA City Opera). The tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi wrote of Muzio: Singing with that unique voice of hers made of tears and sighs and... | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... I don't see why the Walker could have any negative effect on any cable. However, I used the Destat III on cables alone and didn't like the effect, so I used the Walker to reverse it. The effect only lasts about a day anyway. | |
| Best speakers around $130k? Designing and manufacturing a high end product is first of all risky and generally expensive. Making a successful and great sounding high end speaker is not for the faint of heart. Contrariwise, high end cable is as risky but generally not as ... | |
| Best speakers around $130k? For $78,000, the Estelon Diamond X Mark 11 or $130,000 the Forza $100,000 Von Schweikert Ultra 55s Possibly Evolution Acoustics MM7s or MM3s with outboard crossover Currnently, I have Legacy Focus speakers in a $150,000 custom built room. They... | |
| Room Treaments - Where To Begin... @mike_in_nc Yes, that is the fundamental beginning. I custom built a room which addressed bass (built-in activated carbon filters). After your 3 recommended fixes, Shahki Hallographs (unless you have really fantastic soundstage and imaging sp... | |
| Beautiful Music That Reduce You To Tears @laps - you win! @jordsg & closenplay - excellent choices Another choice - The Lord is My Shephard/Psalm 23 Meir Finkelstein w/choir and orchestra or same by Gerald Cohen and choir | |
| If you have a CD Player, you need to do this periodically... The most obvious improvement I've made using demagnetization has been the Walker Talisman. I bought it not knowing how effective it is at the speaker terminals, just waving it back and forth for 5 to 10 seconds. That really opened up my system.... | |
| Help with Cartridge choice I can’t believe no one has mentioned the highly esteemed Dynavector 20XII. You can use the L version like the Hana ML with your Zesto. It is slightly less expensive than the Hana and neck and neck in sound quality, construction, etc. 3 of my frien... | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment Oops! Forgot, had my friend build a balanced to single ended transformer(s) for my COS Engineering D1 DAC. Much improved sound. | |
| What are your favorite recordings that sound best to you? American Percussion Society, Paul Price – Breaking The Sound Barrier Vol.1 Percussion Urania USD 1007 LP (not the later pressing) The Ramsey Lewis Trio – Down To Earth (Music From The Soil) Verve Records 314 538 329-2 CD (not any of the ori... | |
| Products you added to your system in 2021 that made most impact to your music enjoyment 2021-minor improvement to a very good system-using my Walker Talisman on the rear input panel and over all cables in my system. Opened up sound significantly. I've owned it for 15 years and my friend and I tried it and it works best there. For... |