gunbei
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| Floor Standers Vs. Book Shelf Speakers I agree, good stands are very important. Since I'm using little monitors, I have them up pretty high on Lovan Imperial 29" stands. They have good adjustable spikes, and I filled each stand with 20 pounds of steel shot to deaden any harmonic resona... | |
| Floor Standers Vs. Book Shelf Speakers Jamma, I've had good luck with both the Sonus Fabers and the ProAcs in my setup.In my view the strengths of the Concertinos are their organic sound. They seem to accentuate the woodiness of acoustic stringed and woodwind instruments. Voices sound ... | |
| Floor Standers Vs. Book Shelf Speakers Ooops, sorry. I didn't see your previous post "I tend to listen to music that has a fast tempo like Blues, soul, rock etc..." Good luck. | |
| Floor Standers Vs. Book Shelf Speakers Jamma, my room is the same size as yours, and I'm also using an integrated amp. A Sim Audio Moon I-5 to be specific. I've never tried floorstanders in my room, only Sonus Faber Concertinos and ProAc Tablette 50 Signatures. At 70WPC, the I-5 powers... | |
| Simaudio I-5 vs Plinius 8200 Blackie. I've never done a head-to-head comparison of these two pieces, but I have owned the Moon I-5 for almost a year. My only experience with Plinius gear was early last year in a store and they sounded great. You might want to do a search on t... | |
| What's wrong with my Cal Delta/Sigma? Yohjixme. I had the same problem when I hooked a Theta Pearl transport I got last week. Muddy, veiled and a fat midrange. Just like you, it turned out to be a poor mechanical connection. It all disappeared when I swapped digital cables around a co... | |
| CD Player transport for under 2k Hi Joe. Yeah, the problem with the Pearl was completely operator error. I changed out the digital cable to Kimber Illuminations D60 and the performance was just fine. When I reinserted the Cardas Lightning L-15 back in, the sound was also very nic... | |
| 5 ch. amps--Parasound; Rotel; Marantz Hi Rowidick. Have you considered any of the amps from ATI? I've been using an ATI AT1505 with 5 NHT satellites to good effect. I wouldn't consider my system to be bright, and that may be due in large to the smooth Pioneer front end.However, this d... | |
| CD Player transport for under 2k Good point Joe. I just picked up a Theta Pearl CD transport. What sealed it for me was some information provided by Ed Deitemeier with Theta. He said that repairing a Data Basic would be tough because they use the now unavailable Phillips CDM-9 me... | |
| Rudeness With 'net Sales Redkiwi, your issue regarding transactions between people in different countries is a very valid point. I can see how both buyers and sellers would be wary of an international transaction.This is why I must commend such Agon members as Haruo and R... | |
| Rudeness With 'net Sales I second Usblues' comments. Play on indeed! | |
| Best DIY isolation for speakers stands Wirehead, it never fails...whenever I have to blow my nose a tissue is nowhere to be found. But I always seem to be around my speakers. I like your Home Depot fixes. Maybe I'll give them a try. A person only has so much mucus. | |
| Rudeness With 'net Sales Redkiwi, I've been very lucky with my transactions on Audiogon. I have always been very fortunate to deal with friendly and honest people. I'm sorry to hear of your disillusionment.Agon members Haruo, Robbychan, Genesis168, Billpatterson, and Hend... | |
| DON'T ever do this... With two sets of speaker cables, two interconnects, three different digital cables, and inumerable isolation tweaks, I'm still able to remember what worked where. Most of the time.However, you guys must have so much gear and associated stuff it wo... | |
| CD Transport for the next 10 years..... I too considered the Sonic Frontiers SFT-1, but ended up getting a Theta Pearl for much less money last week.For the next ten years? ...Ten years ago I was still using illustration board, X-acto knives and rubber cement. Now I use a thing called a... |