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| Goldenear Reference Vs. Focal Sopra #2.....pocket the $5k difference and don't look back? All in-house designed and hand built in France vs. subwoofers and drivers slapped in a box and made in China.You realize of course your statement means the premise is that something touched by a humans hand is necessarily preferable or otherwise c... | |
| Goldenear Reference Vs. Focal Sopra #2.....pocket the $5k difference and don't look back? To all the Golden Ear naysayers about the the parts quality, China, Sandy and what have you I’ve personally listened to an in home audition of a $200K of Alta Statement towers and I’m rather content in knowing how much of a better value (price/sou... | |
| Goldenear Reference Vs. Focal Sopra #2.....pocket the $5k difference and don't look back? gdhal: that means nothing. Sandy Gross is the ultimate wine & dine and marketing master when it comes to reviewers. They’re not bad speakers, but if you’re ever going to be skeptical, be skeptical about anything he touches, review wise.@cont... | |
| Goldenear Reference Vs. Focal Sopra #2.....pocket the $5k difference and don't look back? Triton Reference does everything well. Nothing (IMO) in its price category can best it for bass. As to physical appearance, personally I prefer the Reference over the Focals. I can’t get past the "bent" look.EDIT:Also worth mentioning as its relat... | |
| Lowering the noise floor Electing to chime in on this thread in particular because of those who have already chimed in **AND** because OP has created essentially the same post elsewhere on this forum.In light of the aforementioned, see response here:https://forum.audiogon... | |
| RCA Shorting Plugs @erik_squires Very true regarding the room acoustics, however, I can assure you noise from the system itself (and all systems emanate some noise) is easily distinguishable. That said, system noise to a certain degree is "manageable". | |
| RCA Shorting Plugs Like many other threads on this forum that are essentially duplicative, I recently resurrected an older topic related to this subject. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/rca-capsGiven the input (no pun intended) of Al and George (and others, t... | |
| Help a guy out? Renovating home theater system after 10 years and have a few questions. Yes, definitelyI'm proud to be in the minority. | |
| Help a guy out? Renovating home theater system after 10 years and have a few questions. @noble100 Hi Tim.I appreciate your willingness and desire to "straighten out a few things to keep things clear".As you go on to state "It really is that obvious to the majority of humans.I have no idea why you are unable to recognize OLED’s obviou... | |
| Help a guy out? Renovating home theater system after 10 years and have a few questions. Samsung’s whites were way out of control.My unit was pro calibrated by Kevin Miller. Trust me, the whites (and all other colors) are very much under correct control for P3, REC2020, D65, HD Rec.709. | |
| Help a guy out? Renovating home theater system after 10 years and have a few questions. @noble100 Hi Tim. So by your own admission, your LG 86SJ9570 ***MATCHES*** the picture quality of my Samsung UN65KS9800.So again, whats so obvious? | |
| Help a guy out? Renovating home theater system after 10 years and have a few questions. ............Obviously OLED would give the highest pq compared to LED or LCD whether either is utilizing something similar to Samsung's 'QLED' technology or not..........Obviously?http://4k.com/tv/samsung-ks9800-review-suhd-4k-ultra-hd-240mr-smar... | |
| power conditioner Balanced power is nice if you can pull it off without introducing other problems. It is useful for lowering susceptibility to noise on the line. Often it is done by using an isolation transformer of some sort. If this is the case, the transformer ... | |
| power conditioner @atmasphere Always a pleasure to read from you in any thread.Could you please provide your opinion (succinctly) about balanced power conditioners, with an emphasis on whatever advantage they bring to the table in comparison to non-balanced conditi... | |
| power conditioner @falconquest Poor choice of words on my part in my prior post. Please accept my apologies.I had a knee jerk reaction given that in your previous post you had mentioned balanced power. I didn't hear anything in the video explain or otherwise addres... |