hilde45
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| Advice regarding streaming please. I've asked this question myself. Here's where I have wound up based upon what folks with expensive streamers say: A better streamer can make a difference -- but IF your streamer is decent (Node 2i or above) make sure everything else is as good as ... | |
| Why Are People So Concerned About How Others Spend Their Money? The only reason to obsess over crazy spending would be if there were people who didn't have enough food or shelter or medicine to have a minimally decent life. At that point, I could understand the judgement's basis. (It could be moral or religiou... | |
| Looking for a SS integrated Amplifier recommendation going into a new system @larryro2 All this gear is great but room acoustics will make or break any system. I have owned Boulder Belles Dynaco Mcintosh Peachtree Arcam Interesting comment. May I ask if you went through some of these *before* factoring in room acoust... | |
| Ascend Acoustics Sierra Towers with tube or lower watt amps I'll take a look. I'm thinking hard about these. In the meantime, I'd like folks to know that David Fabrikant at Ascend has been very generous, detailed, and straightforward in answering *every* question that I have had in a timely and courteo... | |
| Default standard for speaker "sensitivity" measurement listings? Anechoic? In-room? Other? I totally get Jim Salk's point; it's valid to insist on a metric which can be compared to other identical metrics. The question I would raise is the "half space" measurement equivalent, technically, to the anechoic one? Otherwise, instead of the a... | |
| Default standard for speaker "sensitivity" measurement listings? Anechoic? In-room? Other? Jim Salk told me his measurements were anechoic because in room measurements are meaningless. I do not know how he does those measurements. Not sure how he would access such a facility. If he calculated in "half space" as lonemountain indicated, I... | |
| Default standard for speaker "sensitivity" measurement listings? Anechoic? In-room? Other? @atmasphere Thanks so much. Very helpful post! | |
| Tube Amp for Klipsch Forte IV's? Black Ice F-22 or Willsenton R8 with upgraded tubes? For about the same $$ Quicksilver integrated would be a great choice. http://quicksilveraudio.com/products/integrated-amplifier/ | |
| Spatial X5 speakers @ozzy62 Thanks. My ear is evolving toward other things, I sense. This is an interesting hobby. | |
| Spatial X5 speakers Thanks @jaymark @ozzy62 Why did you move on from the Spatials? | |
| Spatial X5 speakers Thanks for the report. How would you characterize the difference between how they present with the tube amp vs. the other one? You have quite a range of power and topology difference, there! Also, since these can be driven with even lower powered... | |
| How much gear do you own? @havocman What everyone else has going for them is that they didn’t call anyone a “dumbass” as you did. Being abusive is really uncool. | |
| Ascend Acoustics Sierra Towers with tube or lower watt amps No I don’t. | |
| How much gear do you own? We have too much stuff in general and it's indicative of something, overall, about our lifestyle. As for audio, I don't have that much -- ss and tube amp, 1 dac, 1 streamer, 1 cd transport; I'm thinking about getting another pair of speakers to t... | |
| Atoll IN200SE Integrated Amplifier @analoguefan Thanks for your update. Can you share the mods you did, incl any photos? |