ghasley

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Struggling to spend 13k with three dealers
Buy the new speakers, sell yours on your own.  
SET Shootout China VS The USA
@mozartfan  I think that SF model goes for like $2500 vs my FR duo @ under $1. I’ll take my FR/Duo’s all you get with the SF is a 6 inch mid and a tweeter, Neither has the fiber to voice the super duper critical 2khz-3khz band width. Breakup in ... 
Devore or Audio Note or other sensitive speakers: wanting to listen in Denver
@jdoris full disclosure, I have no industry affiliations but I do own four different speaker brands for various systems and applications. Certainly there is no best for every person or every system.  
Devore or Audio Note or other sensitive speakers: wanting to listen in Denver
@jdoris No editorializing one way or the other about Zu from me. As a former Zu owner, I too love the company and the original guys behind Zu. When I said I'm not so sure they get cross shopped with Devore or Audio Note, it was a generic statement... 
SET Shootout China VS The USA
I'll take Sonus Faber for $500 Alex!  
Devore or Audio Note or other sensitive speakers: wanting to listen in Denver
An interesting weakness of the direct sales-trial-return policy is that many do not have sufficient stock right now. I have heard from more than a few people that the wait is measured in multiple months of backlog these days.   The ultimate para... 
Devore or Audio Note or other sensitive speakers: wanting to listen in Denver
@hilde45 can you broadly describe your room and the desired setup? The sound between the O series and the Audio Note is vaguely similar but it all depends on the room because they each kindof get there via opposite origins. For instance, if you do... 
Devore or Audio Note or other sensitive speakers: wanting to listen in Denver
@hilde45 As you already know, Denver/front range isn’t where you will find an Audio Note or Devore dealer. To hear these two wonderful speaker brands in a dealer environment, you might consider a 1 day round trip flight to Chicago. From DIA to Chi... 
SET Shootout China VS The USA
Oh My! You’ve had a Chinese made, sub $1,000 push-pull 2a3 amplifier for less than 72 hours and you just proclaimed it what? Better than anything the US or EU can muster? You just don’t know what you are talking about. There is absolutely nothing ... 
SET Shootout China VS The USA
While you are at it, why don’t you make a video playing Keith Don’t Go or Peel Me a Grape?   Jokes aside, narrating a slow motion train wreck is nerve wracking to witness.  
SET Shootout China VS The USA
@mozartfan It would be really cool if you could attend an audio show or maybe there is a great dealer near you. You really owe it to yourself to hear the differences between all of the topographies so that you can find out where you really are.  ... 
SET Shootout China VS The USA
@mozartfan    I prefer Faith Hill, Diana Krall via the 5% distort 2A3PP vs a KT88PP. All day long. My suggestion is if you are going into a FR system as a 2nd system, this is the amp to buy..   Sadly you lost half of your audience with your ... 
SET Shootout China VS The USA
@mozartfan sometimes the crowd is actually right. In this case you received the amp sometime on 12/18. Later that day and into the 19th you are proclaiming the amp a world beater, which may or may not true…its your world and therefore your world t... 
SET Shootout China VS The USA
@mozartfan once again, your absolute conclusions are premature and your sample size is limited. It doesn’t mean you won’t enjoy it, it just means that your conclusions lack credibility. For instance, I have an el34 based amplifier in my closet whi... 
SET Shootout China VS The USA
It depends on the FR speaker..