jdoris
Responses from jdoris
| Looking for a Quality Desktop Solution I've been happiest with single driver in desktop type application. No driver integration issues, and they can sound good at low volumes. | |
| Which to Upgrade first? My Amplifier or Speakers? Agreed with the many others that suggest trying other tings first, given the quality of amp and speakers. I particularly like the suggestion of subs, given you can't really do room stuff. I'm definitely not a wire skeptic, but I bet subs would m... | |
| flabbergasted with reviews on speakers IME, it's true both that speaker sensitivity matters, and that manufacturers sometimes (frequently?) misleadingly exaggerate it. If you can't try a prospective speaker with your amp, at least gather as much testimony as you can as to whether amps... | |
| Struggling to spend 13k with three dealers Some of this may be specific to the dealers in question, but I wonder how of it is a function of the general "pandemic economy." Here in central NY, we have been getting callbacks for all manner of goods and services, even for previously reliable... | |
| Devore or Audio Note or other sensitive speakers: wanting to listen in Denver @hilde45 My bad, I meant the X-Statics. The X3s, as you say, are all open. My speculation was that the hybrid design of the X-Statics, with the sealed enclosure low end, might sound more familiar to those most familiar with boxes. | |
| Devore or Audio Note or other sensitive speakers: wanting to listen in Denver @hilde45 Agreed the OB experience is distinctive, and and perhaps a bit disconcerting, if you're used to the punchiness of boxes, as I am. (Ditto omnis and planars.) The X3s, unlike those Spatials, are a hybrid design, with the bass drivers... | |
| Devore or Audio Note or other sensitive speakers: wanting to listen in Denver I didn't recognize any open baffle speakers on your original list, but if you're casting your net more widely, I'd vote for giving some a listen. It's a distinctive presentation, but if you can give them lots of room to breathe, and an airy, holo... | |
| Long distance move - Trust moving company unpack + 1 on fear and loathing. I've not been able to shop for my movers, who have been vendors who worked with my employers. Some loss and damage in all cases, with variable luck on the insurance: some vendors quickly made it right, but the last one ... | |
| Devore or Audio Note or other sensitive speakers: wanting to listen in Denver @ghasley Interesting, thanks. Lots of reason's speakers draw different crowds of course. | |
| Devore or Audio Note or other sensitive speakers: wanting to listen in Denver @ghasley @jjss49 Is the thought that AN and Devore are "in a different class" -- presumably higher? Zu, anyway, makes some ambitious and good sounding speakers (with a definite "flavor" to my ear, when I've heard them). | |
| Looking for suggestions on speakers and an integrated amp for a second system. IME, that's a hard one, pal. I have that problem in my office system and use the fairly high efficiency single driver, fostex based, Brines 2000. They are no longer made, but single driver is a thought, and there are numerous options out there I... | |
| Best speakers around $130k? Exotic veneer or high end automotive finish is obviously bling. But does finish account for a high percentage of costs on luxury speakers? I dunno. 10 v. 2 bucks per sf. of veneer doesn't add up to much. A lot of stuff that kinda feels bl... | |
| Vote for Your Top OP'er One Only Please ! RIP, Almarg. | |
| Not manufactured any more. @richopp Thanks, I can noe see where you are coming from. I think the planer/box question is very much a matter of taste, rather than a question of objective obsolescence. I've listened to decent bit to Maggies, and while I admire them, the... | |
| Devore or Audio Note or other sensitive speakers: wanting to listen in Denver Drat, I was just going to say Devore, Zu (and probably some of the others) show at RMAF, right in your backyard, but I see RMAF is no more. What a shame. Can't help with the audition (would that I lived on the front range), but I'm very keen ... |