helomech
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| Warm and accurate bookshelves that can handle volume Harbeths really? Yes they are fine sounding BUT turn up the vol and they fall apart, at least in my experience. Local dealer sell them so have heard them many times. Same experience here. They sound nice at moderate volume. Even with high curr... | |
| Warm and accurate bookshelves that can handle volume Outside of the M40s, Harbeths do not handle high SPLs so well. The 8” midwoofers have weak motors not designed for long term high power handling. Search around the web and you’ll find quite a few reports of blown drivers, even cracked cones. The ... | |
| Best turntable under $4000 I switched from a >$4K Acoustic Signature setup (w/ $1600 tonearm) to a Technics 1210GR and have no regrets. The former was a more elegant looking turntable for certain but the GR looks better in person than I expected. Definitely less DJ-esque... | |
| Coaxials - Reality vs. Experience? Hard to beat the imaging of some of the KEFs and Tannoys IME. Otherwise there is nothing particularly remarkable about the scheme. I owned the previous Spatial Audio M series which consisted of Eminence woofer with a coaxially mounted compress... | |
| Peachtree GaN 1 Beta I auditioned their GaN 400 amp in my home, using a Benchmark LA4 as preamp. It was mostly underwhelming. It had decent highs and mids but the bass was a joke compared to the other amps I had on hand at the time (Benchmark AHB2 and Parasound A21).... | |
| HELP!!!! Newbie looking for a decent 2 channel power amp in the $1,000 range Good choice. Parasound amps are unequaled in value. I recently bought an old A21 off a friend and am stunned at how good it can sound with the right matching equipment, better than many amps from the boutique brands. | |
| I have NOVA V's and I am not happy Those older Nautilus 800 series B&Ws actually measured fairly flat compared to current models and were arguably better speakers than the current series. As for the SFs, I auditioned the Nova IIs and thought they were quite neutral. They we... | |
| End Game Turntable suggestions SME | |
| Streamer upgrade? follow up. Now if you could just get that A100 back on loan from TMR for a level-matched A/B comparison. Then the real moment of truth could commence. 😉 | |
| Protip: Using a sub? Plug your mains Some drivers can handle both ported and sealed enclosures, some cannot. Also, when plugging a port, you want to plug the whole length. That applies to more than just speakers ;-) | |
| DAC recommendations I have the Ares II and feel it meets your requirements. It’s accurate (capable of 21 bit resolution) yet also slightly warm. On the bench it performs just as the well as the Terminator and actually has a lower noise floor. I haven’t compared it to... | |
| Not sure what to think or do... Some speakers don’t perform well with high power amplifiers, though I wouldn’t expect that to be the case with Elysians. Sometimes when I think something is amiss with my system or that it doesn’t sound good, I later realize I was just having ... | |
| Why Don't you hear more about Audio Physics Speakers?? They don’t have a wide distribution net in North America but they make some competent speakers. I owned the Avanti (current version) for a couple months. Overall, they were a good value at the price I paid for them pre-owned. The cabinet finis... | |
| Pure Class-A Amp under $2000 (USED) Most “class A” amps are not “pure class A” because they are extremely inefficient and get very hot, even with massive heatsinks. They are basically space heaters. Even amps like the Pass XA25 (50 watt class A envelope) are not pure Class A for... | |
| Pass Labs Speaker Choices I got good results with the Pass XA25 and Tekton Lore Ref BEs (about 89db free air sensitivity). Great amp but I wouldn’t recommend it for speakers any less efficient, unless one has a small near-field setup. Can’t comment on other Pass amps ... |