james63
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| Best Headphone system under $1000??? The Elex will be effected by the amps output impedance more than the HD6XX (80 ohms vs 300) As the output impedance goes up the bass will get louder (also effects damping) and this is probably not what you want with the Elex as it is already a lit... | |
| Best Headphone system under $1000??? Lincnabby,You will like the HD6XX.They may not wow you at first but they are excellent with no major issues that so many other headphones have. I am always interested to hear the perspective of headphones from someone into speakers. I started with... | |
| Magico A3 Interesting that a number of you are agreeing they are dark. I have not heard them and I am just the peanut gallery. Bewteen these common comments and the price hike to $12.5k I will probably not bother demoing them as my closest magico dealer 3-4... | |
| Best Headphone system under $1000??? Big_gregAgreed and good point. I think a lot of classical guys would appreciate the HD650/HD6XX and they are a steel. They were $350 10 years ago and they might even be cheaper now. I wish the same could be said about the speaker market prices... | |
| Any way I could have damaged my speakers? As long as you did not let out the “magic smoke” your equipment is fine. Once you let out the smoke the equipment runs on you can’t put it back in lol. | |
| Best Headphone system under $1000??? I owned the HD650 and ran them off of a Benchmark DAC2 HDR which has a pretty high power class A amp in it. The combination was pretty boring and lacked dynamics. The lack of dynamics is the biggest issue for a speaker guy. No headphone gets it ri... | |
| Which bookshelf speakers to choose: Focal Sopra 1 or B&W 805D3 or KEF Ref 1? I have only heard the 805D3. I thought it sounded ok but no way would I buy it for the asking price. It was meh for me and sounded like a small speaker that was trying to sound bigger than it was... if that makes sense. The bass drew attention to ... | |
| Best Headphone system under $1000??? I can help you. I have owned a ton of headphones. The probelm with going over to forums like head-fi is a lot of the people do not have any good two channel experiance for reference and get used to the colored sound of headphone and make questiona... | |
| Thiel Owners Anyd2I would guess around $8,000. I am speaker shopping now and nothing in the $8,000-$13,000 range has stood out as better. Just different (some worse). I have owned the 2.4 for about 10 years and I feel that you need to be shopping in the $15,00... | |
| Thiel Owners pwhinson73 I heard the 3.7 and 2.4 in the same room same system one time. It was a long time ago so I can’t talk to specific details and keep in mind audio memory is poor... The most noticeable thing is the 3.7s is more detailed in the mids and hi... | |
| Thiel Owners As others have posted I too am casually looking to upgrade my 10 year old 2.4CS speakers. I took a pretty long break from audio. I just picked up other hobbies but I am starting to get the bug again (used headphones for a year or two in there too)... | |
| The Audeze of speakers Hellogoodbye I can probably help you. I own the LCD-X and burson soloist amp. I also own the HD800-S and focal Elex (my current favorite) and have owned too many headphones to list... I have also owned the b&w 703, demoed the 805d etc (heard t... | |
| Small drivers vs big drivers Driver size has nothing to do with the frequency it can play. 20hz is simply the driver moving back and forth 20 times per second. Size does matter how far the drive has to travel to make the sound loud enough to hear. Pressure being a function of... | |
| A New? Way to Buy Loudspeakers?? Pretty cool for what it is. They don’t have an apple AirPod option lol. | |
| The Absolute Sound - ELAC Navis Review 1/2 ways trustable is a stretch...I look at the pictures and read the measurements... wait they don’t do measurements. I guess I look at the pictures. |