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| Well I joined the Silversmith FIDELIUM Speaker cable club today I had an inexpensive tri wire 5 foot set of Van Damme cables for two years causing me to bend each time I had to play an LP but they were decent in many respects. I needed to move to 6 footers and tried a half dozen biwire sets from Audioquest, Al... | |
| “House” Character of Popular $20-$30k Speakers As you like the B + W sound and you have a larger room with high ceilings Id look at the PMC MB2Se. "but adding some small capabilities with transparency and detail, imaging, and low end presence." This particular PMC will pick up transparency, d... | |
| After years of separates, I'm going integrated. Anyone else do the same? Main 2 channel system is all separates - ARC REF preamps and Simaudio amplification and I may look again in a few years. I have gone AVM integrated (class D amp and pre with tube compliment) for my family room system and couldn't be happier. I don... | |
| Which stereo amp to try under $30k I would suggest the Simaudio 860A V2 mentioned earlier. It ticks all of your boxes AND has great synergy with an ARC Ref pre. I strongly suggest you reconsider speaker cables and interconnects at the same time as they are as important to complete ... | |
| What are the weak points of Pass amps and pre-amps ? I spent a weekend auditioning the X260.5 monoblocks and the glowing weak point in my set-up is their lack of speed and attack. Just sounded lazy when compared to Bryston cubed series monoblocks and Simaudio monoblocks. They were musical no doubt b... | |
| Kuzma Stabi S and 4point? overkill? I am hoping Brian checks this thread from time to time. I switched out my S12VTA on my stabi S TT for the 4 point 9 and it has not moved the sound forward at all. The lower bass is better refined and controlled but the lower vocals, mids and highs... | |
| PMC Speakers I have a pair of PMC IB2 SE in a 11 1/2 by 18 foot room with 8 foot ceiling. It took me a while to add appropriate absorption and diffusion and dial them in. They are toed in to meet just in front of the listener and that brought everything int... | |
| Amplifier ideas with KEF Reference 1 You seem to have a lot of expert advice. I have owned many Kef's and the magic mid is the take away for me. I'd concur that some recent integrated amps may be the ideal choice to support the great mids. You should also audition the Constellati... | |
| When is it time to consider adding a SUT? I now have my Benz lps installed and about 12 hours on the cartridge. Changing the impedance settings from 100 to 1000 provide noticeable changes in tonal balance. I settled on 500 as at 1000 there was some noticeable ringing on certain vocal tra... | |
| Soundstage and explosive dynamics? There is a used pair of PMC IB2 is speakers on audiogon currently asking $9,250. Problem solved...Full stop! | |
| When is it time to consider adding a SUT? So we now have many posts quoting the science and others quoting user experience indicating that a quality SUT and cables may in fact improve the end to end performance of a high quality and capable PS even if they have sufficient gain required fo... | |
| When is it time to consider adding a SUT? Thank you for your insight. It is very valuable. My question was not so much about there being enough gain but would the addition of a SUT improve the end to end performance of my set-up and wrm57 indicates that it wont. I'll report back when it a... | |
| ARC Ref 5se inferior to LS28? Gents and ladies - just answer the question please. The ref5se is much much better than an LS27 based on auditioning both inmy system. So it is possible that an LS28 is closer but it is highly unlikely that it is equal or better. |