hilde45
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| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) @squeakI appreciate the advice to look into room acoustics. I think that will probably be something that I do AFTER I choose my speakers because I cannot change my room in time to make an altered determination about the speakers that I have for a ... | |
| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) @lalitk Thanks for the suggestion. Will take a look. @erik_squires I've not hear the speaker above this by Fritz -- the Carreras, which @blimo liked so well. Curious about those, too, but I have a clock running and money down on a couple demo's so... | |
| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) Thanks big greg. Will consider.Limomangus -- I set an upper limit which helps delimit what I can afford and might try to listen to. (E.g., no Joseph Audio Pulsars for $8k., etc.) Not sure what gave the impression I did this in lieu of listening; t... | |
| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) @three_easy_payments Good to know. I picked those for audition partly because of personal recommendation, and price point, availability for free audition, and to experiment with different tweeters. Only after listening am I recognizing that I need... | |
| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) @erik_squires Fritz not harsh at all. I’ve been throwing pillows in those places and in lots of others. Fritz was quite mellow, up top.Focals mostly not harsh on most but could be on more than a few others. | |
| Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?) @auxinput No. FWIW, I'm using:Speaker wire: Analysis Plus Oval 12 speaker cables Coaxial Digital: AP Crystal Solo Coaxial Interconnects: Analysis Plus Copper Oval | |
| Separates to tube integrated The Raven integrated is 20 wpc and $3k. Quicksilver has a 20 wpc integrated for $2k. Both good reputations. Not sure why Raven is better. I listened to the QS and it drove some pretty resistant Dynaudio bookshelves very well and had a lovely sound. | |
| Stereophile complains it's readers are too informed. Reviews are most useful to me when I have another review or two of the exact same product, and when all reviewers strive to both be critical of what they actually hear while disclosing their own perspective and uses of the gear. The worst situatio... | |
| How to select a good Speaker Cable @b4icu Do you sell speaker cables? | |
| Who, do you think, designs the best looking tube-based devices? When I was looking, Pathos (Italia!) and Vincent (demure, but with a peek inside the boudoir) were both alluring, but in the end I went with Quicksilver, but not for looks. As I look over the variations, there are lots of nice boxes (some with tub... | |
| Stereophile complains it's readers are too informed. @mahgister+1 on all you wrote.Especially:I cannot imagine that an audio system has a sound of his own, when it is "off" in the box in the warehouse by virtue of the different measures of his components... He must be out of the audio laboratory and... | |
| Stereophile complains it's readers are too informed. @cdamiller5 "Just get what sounds good to you" was how I used to approach audio, food, film, etc. It’s such a simple, seemingly irrefutable bit of common sense.I’ve given up that bit of "common sense" because I have found it partially false.I have... | |
| Stereophile complains it's readers are too informed. One thing which differentiates audio equipment magazine reviews from those reviewers of other cultural products— painting, music, film, dance, etc. — is that audio equipment is only partially an expressive artifact. It is necessarily instrumental ... | |
| Stereophile complains it's readers are too informed. CV19 hype propagandists? What is *that*? | |
| Stereophile complains it's readers are too informed. @erik_squires I see your point, Erik. If I’ve got it right, you’re saying that because there is an influential standard out there by Toole, it would serve Stereophile and its readers if they simply included a sentence or two in any review where a ... |