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| Borresen X3 vs Harbeth 40.2 -- my impressions Being an owner of the X3s and having had several lengthy auditions with the Harbeth 40.2s in what is a better sorted room than my own (giving the Harbeths a field advantage) I have to vehemently disagree with your assessment, especially with regar... | |
| I want to buy new speakers for 50,000 and see it used for 30,000, what should I do? Pre-owned $50K speakers for the price of $30K is likely not a good deal with the vast majority of brands. Consider that it’s not uncommon to get a >/=25% discount on brand-new pairs in that price range. Only chumps pay full retail on $50K speak... | |
| Do high dollar mono blocks truly improve the Sound Quality over the mid tier amps Mono blocks are only advantageous if you are switching to them from an amp that had high levels of crosstalk. A competently designed, high-power stereo amp can be just as good or superior. | |
| Bluesound I haven’t had any issues with any of the last half dozen updates. Can’t say the same for WiiM’s software. | |
| Differences between Harbeth, Spendor, Graham, etc. ? I have simultaneously owned the Spendor SP2/3R2 and the Harbeth M30.2 Anniversary for about a year. My amplifier at the time was the Audio Analogue Maestro Anniversary integrated. My take (both speakers used without grills as I found the grills t... | |
| Revel 328Be owners...what do you think? The one thing that concerns me about the Borresen is that I typically do not like ribbon tweeters. I just find the integration between a ribbon and the traditional cones extremely difficult to master. My mind automatically goes to gaps or dynamic... | |
| Borresen X3 Funny enough, having auditioned the Yamaha NS-5000s with their TOTL separates, I can comfortably and confidently assert that they are not competitive, let alone superior, to the Borresen X series. That would even be true if the NS-5000s retailed f... | |
| Revel 328Be owners...what do you think? I have the opportunity to pick up a second hand pair of the 328s at a pretty good price, and am currently running the 228s paired with a big rel. What is a “pretty good price?” Personally, based on the performance I would not be tempted by 32... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response The best transient response I've ever heard, are ion plasma tweeters. It's hard to beat drivers with zero mass. Lansche and AvantGarde Acoustics both have very impressive transient response behavior. Next in line would probably be ribbo... | |
| Revel 328Be owners...what do you think? I was not impressed by the 328Be despite being a longtime Revel fan. IMO it is overpriced relative to Revel’s more entry-level products. I would rather own a pre-owned pair of Salon2s, or even get Performa F208s and spend the savings elsewhere. ... | |
| Upgrading to a stand alone DAC soix, not to be too generic, I am looking to increase soundstage and to pull out more details A better DAC could very well extract more detail (of an incremental level), especially if it’s one that has a very low noise floor. It could also expa... | |
| Upgrading to a stand alone DAC Do you really find the E70 Velvet to be better than the Qutest? I have a Qutest but am looking for a DAC with balanced outs. Maybe I should give one a try. Yes, I wouldn’t have stated that were it not my experience. I actually owned the Qutest... | |
| Upgrading to a stand alone DAC I recently sold a Stereophile “Class A” rated DAC that retailed for $3000 just a few years ago, because I prefer the $500 Topping E70 Velvet. The Topping is somewhat unique in that one of its filter modes is actually no filter at all, thus, it som... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response Transients are impulse responses in relation to steady state and it can be measured. Impulse response is to a specific input from base level. It is used to check time alinement. It is not related to distortion but most systems with good transien... | |
| Aftermarket fuse to tame a bright system? A couple beers will solve your problem more than will any fuse or cables. |