hilde45
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| Long interconnect or speaker cable Just so the OP has additional resources: https://forum.audiogon.com/search/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Long+interconnect+or+speaker+cable | |
| Compact Floor-standing Speaker Recommendations under $4k I had some floor mounts that were fatiguing in my space and tried a variety of other speakers to improve on that. The best I heard and now own are the Ascend Acoustics Tower with RAAL tweeters. This small, engineer-owned company from California do... | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? @waytoomuchstuff I like the way you laid out those factors and how they need to be considered when people "shoot from the hip," here, about whether a product is "worth it." You write, "But what about services we obtain that are purely intell... | |
| 2023 AXPONA Show Report I'm surprised at some comments about these Fritz speakers. I had these exact speakers in my home for about 7 months. They sounded amazing with Adcom 535L, Atoll IN200SE, MiniGan5 (class D), Quicksilver Mono 60 tube amp. They were played in larger ... | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? @russ69 Thanks for pushing me! @8th-note If you have $50 million in Microsoft stock spending 7 figures for a stereo is reasonable in your world. What else are you going to do with your money? Give it to the homeless? Well-placed irony. That ... | |
| Care to offer comparisons? Wilson, YG, Magico, Stenheim, Rockport, Audio Note @decooney @audphile1 The question becomes, are there some speakers that no amp can do much to warm up? Are there limits to the kind of tone character an amp (or preamp) can affect with a given speaker? | |
| Why a dearth of some brands on the used market? Devore 0/96 | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? Someone is buying a $133k speaker while someone else is living in a cardboard box. And some are eating fillet mignon and others are eating a hot dog. So what does that have to do with the topic? @russ49 -- It has to do with one construal of th... | |
| Is it possible for a high end manufacturer to overprice their goods? The fact that speakers are priced like that only adds to arguments against the value systems we have allowed to get set up. Someone is buying a $133k speaker while someone else is living in a cardboard box. A quote from Pope Francis: "Today cons... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... @grislybutter Many of these comments however have the "I have the tickets to the best seats, let me lecture you how wrong you are" vibe. Of course you can't prove intent so you can always say that I am just imagining the vibe. I think that's ... | |
| Songs with excellent advice? "I Ain't Marchin' anymore" by Phil Ochs “This Land Is Your Land” by Woody Guthrie Know what you're up against and get ready to fight your whole life. | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... +1 @ghdprentice The “best” seats in the house for sound are typically reported as the 7th row center. To give an example -- in Denver’s hall, Orchestra 1, the closer rows, are $82 each, Orchestra 2, what you’re describing, are $145, and Orche... | |
| Sat front row at the symphony... Front row at our hall is terrible compared to further back. Indeed, tix are cheaper up front. | |
| Care to offer comparisons? Wilson, YG, Magico, Stenheim, Rockport, Audio Note @audphile1 I can say that I have heard the Rockports powered by Boulder and the Stenheim’s powered by CH Precision ($58k integrated); I also heard two sets of Wilson speakers powered in one case by D’Agostino and in the other by Ayre. In all ca... | |
| odd question about stand-mount speakers a good speaker was designed to be used the way the designer tells you. This is a pretty strong point. If a speaker is well designed, it is run through many paces. Many things are considered in positioning tweeter and woofer. Of course, that ma... |