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| Review: Fritz Heiler’s Carbon 7 SE Mk 2 bookshelf speakers @roxy54 Thanks for reading it!Why I'm not (yet) buying these speakers — fair question. Since January, I have had a deposit on some Salk speakers and his production is shut down at the moment. I consider myself committed to trying them (they'll hav... | |
| Love the gear (or listening to it) as much or more than the music? Sacrilege! If your kitchen radio could make it sound like there were musicians in the room with you, would you miss having the system that you do? If the answer is yes then you are not 50-50, you are closer to 100/0. | |
| Do we ask too much of our audio systems? For a long time, people thought that it was central to the purpose of paintings that they to capture reality. But painting moved past that. It is interesting that audio is still questing after the kind of realism which painting realized it didn’t ... | |
| Love the gear (or listening to it) as much or more than the music? Sacrilege! Great replies! Keep them coming! | |
| Love the gear (or listening to it) as much or more than the music? Sacrilege! Thinking about this question -- and the tension it can provoke in answering it -- I was reminded of that old book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The book meant to use the notion of "quality" to explode the false division between Roman... | |
| Tone controls -- assuming you're ok with them, when would you try them? "Move closer" -- love it! "Spatial expander?" Move around."Turn it off?" Leave the house."Turn it on?" Return to house.And so on.Thanks for the chuckle, builder3! | |
| Looking for an integrated amp around 4000 to 5000. My listening experience with the prima Luna 400 via Spendors was underwhelming. Very boomy, sloppy bass. Just one audition, but for an hour. YMMV. | |
| Tube Preamp with Solid State Amp? With very sensitive speakers, a Quicksilver integrated might do very nicely for $2k. | |
| Fitz Carrera BE Terry, stay tuned for a review from me of the Carbon 7's. I'm working on it now. | |
| System assembled; only a final decision about speakers remains @hshifi I read recently that even with a whole house protector, one should retain something for protection at the wall outlet. Maybe you're just doing an experiment? | |
| Opinions on the current market @mapman I heard an interview with Jeff Joseph on Stereophile's Youtube channel and he said that while he is selling things, with something of a return policy, business is undoubtedly slower. I was even entertaining some Ohm/Walsh speakers, which s... | |
| Power Conditioners Here’s what I assume:Surge protection/protecting gear is a must.Some (modest) amount of power treatment is at least warranted as an experiment, just to pay respect to the quality of gear one has invested in.The questions get trickier when one asks... | |
| Non Analytical Sounding DAC Upgrade- Budget $1,500 or less While I own the Orchid, I have to admit to be very curious about Chord, not least because of the talk given by Rob Watts in this 2017 video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXyjsSYjnL8His knowledge and experience shine through and I learned a lot. That sa... | |
| Power Cable Suggestions I tried a Pangea AC9SE with my monoblocks and I heard differences with bass and soundstage. I bought them used on eBay for $113 each. At a fractional cost of the amp, it seemed a worthwhile experiment. Resale would be easy. But it made a difference. | |
| Non Analytical Sounding DAC Upgrade- Budget $1,500 or less @letch Sorry to miss that! I appreciate you directing me to it. As Emily Litella said (all you oldies know where I'm going): "never mind." |