hilde45
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| Advice for bookshelf speakers @fuzztone has a good idea with the Sierra-2EX V2. I have the tower version of those speaker and they're an amazingly quick and musical speaker. Good call. | |
| UP-OCC solid core copper for speaker cable Havocman is spamming many many threads for neotech | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home @kevn thanks for explaining your position; it's very thoughtful and I need to reflect a bit on it. My first thought, which I'll offer tentatively, is that it makes sense insofar as the fine car is already put together, where an audio system is not... | |
| A Very Blissful Christmas Playlist Thank you! If anyone has a nice classical xmas list to share, please add to this thread! | |
| Protip: Using a sub? Plug your mains @erik_squires How does plugging the port keep the amp from trying to play down low? I don't have any high or low pass filters in my system. I want to try your suggestion but can you explain why physically plugging the port will change the amp's ou... | |
| Four Hour Tube Amp Warm-Up @mulveling "However, it is very difficult to separate any such sonic differences from psychoacoustic explanations" This is the Achilles' heel for many discussions. Obviously, the OP knows his own mind best, and we have to stipulate to what he's h... | |
| Tube Preamp for Pass XA25 under $3,000 @mulveling Possibly of interest: http://www.dehavillandhifi.com/UltraVerve-Preamplifier.htm I'm looking for a more specific answer to your question. | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home As a former dealer I regret ever letting an individual take speakers home. They just bring the back to the store and say they didn’t sound very good at home. They probably put them flat against a wall, or something equally as bad. Did they ign... | |
| Tube Preamp for Pass XA25 under $3,000 Consider this piece of advice a holiday gift, and if you can buy it in the next few hours, you'll be lucky. After that, it will be gone, no question. | |
| Your thoughts on wireless iem's I have been cautious not to overspend on IEM's because they're just going to get lost or not last that long. With that said, I like my Jabra's a lot. | |
| Four Hour Tube Amp Warm-Up 4 hours -- wow. So, tube life is, in effect, one quarter of their expected life for good listening? That will sound like an argument for solid state to many. | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home @kevn Thank you for taking the time to write out your approach. In your paragraph, about paying to audition equipment, you write, The thought of ‘spending’ such money unnecessarily has never occurred to me, since the knowledge and learning I wou... | |
| A light-hearted essay on loving music vs the audiophilia obsession In any case, yeah, it's a common trope that audiophiles are more interested in chasing quality of sound than quality of performance, but that's a pretty unforgiving perspective. @edcyn Agreed. It's equivalent to asserting that audiophiles can... | |
| Who says studio monitors are "cold and analytical"? I hate it when seasonings "distort" my food. | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home I appreciate all the advice. I'm pretty clear about what I personally could do. That said, keep YOUR stories about your experiences coming. Because there may be solutions out there or stories out there that might be useful to me or someone else. |