hifiman5
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| Speaker Placement - When it's perfect! @jayctoy and @tomcarr Congratulations! It can be a long and very winding road, but when you find that pot of gold at the end, it is blissful.Enjoy the music! | |
| Speaker Placement - When it's perfect! I agree that a wide variety of placements need to be tried in a specific listening environment. I have done that! Perhaps that's why it took me so long to find that exact correct placement in my space. I followed the speaker manual's suggestio... | |
| Questions from a Tube Preamp newbie @aberyclark 1. I leave my 12AU7 based line stage on 24/7 and the tubes just go on and on. 2. Yes, in my experience. After about a week they are where they will stay.3. Don’t know as I have never had a tube power amp. With a total of 5 tubes in my ... | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? @mward What you said accounts in large part for why there are so many brands and models of audio gear. Your statement also accounts for why this forum exists. If we all heard in exactly the same way, we wouldn't be debating the topics that domi... | |
| Biwire Cables for Vandersteen 2CE Signatures @kalali You are wiring up your 2Cis the way Richard V. intended. I haven't run across a designer who is more adamant about this way of wiring up speakers nor have I ever read a review of Vandersteen speakers where the reviewer didn't agree that ... | |
| What do you consider the most musical speakers—$15000 & under Sound with no adjective to describe it! Metaphysics. | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? like I said! The "Haves" are not just referring to $ but also the wisdom to use it to greatest benefit. | |
| Speaker Placement - When it's perfect! @dentdog Those fractions of an inch that you moved your speakers...I can relate to that. Actually that’s when I knew I was close. It was remarkable how much of a difference a fraction of an inch made especially as regards toe-in.@kosst_amojan I bo... | |
| Biwire Cables for Vandersteen 2CE Signatures @peter_s I forgot to mention your wisdom of using a Rev. A .5 McCormack amp with the 2Ce Signatures. I use Rev A+ DNA 1 with my Treo CTs. McCormack and Vandersteen's are another one of those synergistic combos! | |
| Biwire Cables for Vandersteen 2CE Signatures @peter_s RV is Richard Vandersteen and Low is Bill Low the proprietor and cable wizard of Audioquest. You've been getting a lot of good advice here. Vandys and AQ cables play very well together. | |
| Who thinks $5K speaker cable really better than generic 14AWG cable? 😲😵 | |
| GoldenEar vs Dynaudio vs Nola vs ProAc vs Everything else. @milpai "The speaker placement is going to be tight too, not a lot of space off the side and back walls thanks to a closest coming slightly in to the area the speakers can go." That's what soix and the OP are referring to. | |
| Tell us your worst audio dealer or mfr. experience. hey guys, let's keep this a politics free zone. This is a refuge from all of that... | |
| For a second system I have been thinking of the Marantz Arch. @stereo5 +1! | |
| For a second system I have been thinking of the Marantz Arch. @whatjd You are the OP asking for help. Why should those who might assist have to do that? A bit presumptuous? |