hilde45
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| Pass XA 25 and Goldenear Triton Reference I'm using the Pass XA 25 with Ascend Acoustics Towers, 8 ohm, 93 db in room, 90db anechoic with a graph showing a fairly consistent above-5ohm impedance. The Pass does a great job with these speakers and can be cranked way up without distorting. I... | |
| Selling gear with TMR @ozzy Totally agree. My Salks were in pristine condition and their offer was low and then my cut of that was really, really low. Salk is not like a KEF or Focal, but they're not unknowns, either. Selling it on my own put $1k easily back in my pock... | |
| Deal Fellow REL Owners @izjjzi Here's the exchange: REL Support (REL Acoustics) Apr 16, 3:52 PM PDT 2020 "A while back, REL tested some third party power cords with our subs but did not find a noticeable impact." | |
| Deal Fellow REL Owners I have a REL R-328. I had an extended back and forth with REL about power cords and they told me that they had done extensive testing and had *not* found that after market power cords made a difference. I did a bunch of comparisons between the sto... | |
| To Blind Test, or Not To Blind Test, That Is The Question Long term evaluation is still the gold standard. One thing that long term evaluation does is allow one to get used to -- to form expectations and standards around -- a new piece of gear. One gets used to it, and that can mean (a) one learns to ... | |
| DAC diminishing returns Since so much of what can be discerned depends on your ears and the rest of your system, getting a DAC on trial and comparing seems the only way to go. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Dame Ethel Smyth's The March of the Women. | |
| Best Home Office HiFi Systems Under $10,000 and $20,000.00 The only thing that matters is that you are happy with your choices. That’s more than I can say for many people around here. Way to dunk on a lot of people at once. | |
| Integrated amps for lean speakers Agree with @erik_squires Without a clear portrait of your room acoustics, I have no idea what to recommend gear-wise. The room is 50% of the resulting sound. | |
| Best Home Office HiFi Systems Under $10,000 and $20,000.00 most audiophiles consider the tipping point of excellence at a system above $15,000 I'm curious how you arrived at this generalization. | |
| The new LSA Signature 50 Monitor "Disruptive Product" @jond I can see why you'd say that. What is the price of a SF for a comparable speaker? | |
| The new LSA Signature 50 Monitor "Disruptive Product" Thanks for the well written and helpful review, Terry. These may not be giant killers, necessarily, but given what people spend on, say, the Klipsch RP-600 M, these are killers of some kind. | |
| Speakers known for great midrange. These are luscious. Fritz is a sweetheart and he does trials. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/review-fritz-heiler-s-carbon-7-se-mk-2-bookshelf-speakers | |
| Tube Integrated Under 1,500 I heard a Quicksilver integrated drive Dynaudio Evoke 10 and 20 quite beautifully. https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649829753-quicksilver-integrated-tube-amplifier/ | |
| Interesting ASR review of small GR Research speaker kit that level of ignorance helps you realize just how unimportant all the view points of people truly are. I assumed he was letting everyone know how unimportant his view point is. Mission accomplished. |