jhills
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| Ears hurt when listening after changing speakers While auditioning several very good speakers a couple years back, I found that the more dynamic and revealing speakers, although impressive and gratifying at first, after a short time, did not set well with my ears. As much as I thought I would li... | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? For me, some of the most underrated, or least heard and appreciated, are the old Apogees - particularly the Duetta Signatures and the somewhat smaller Stages. Both the Duetta Sigs in a medium to large room and the Stages in a small to medium room ... | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr @richoppThe ML HQD was an interesting look and I assumed that you wasn't suggesting for OPs room, but as a point of interest. I should have put a LOL after my comment.I Always enjoy your posts.......Jim | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr @richoppThe Mark Levinson HQD system is very impressive, but most defiantly not suited for OPs room ;-) | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr @mwinkc If you follow the OPs earlier posts, you would see that he is quite interested in the smaller Maggies (which, by the way, do fall into the category of being a panel speaker) for his room. I have owned both ribbons and Quad ESLs and quite k... | |
| Carver, THE standard of excellence IMO @markainsworthDoes anybody have thoughts on powering the Magnepan's with a 275?I'm powering my Maggie 1.7s with a 100W Rogue Cronus Mag II, integrated tube with the KT120 tubes and it does a beautiful job. I'm an old guy myself and my poor old ear... | |
| The best looking speakers Tall ribbons or stats. Start with them close to the wall, as she would like and then, a little at a time, over the period of a week or so, move them out until they sound good - she’ll never notice ;-) .......Jim | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr Thanks for the info. Mike.Purely from a financial standpoint, am considering the 3.7s over the 645s. Since I don’t listen at loud levels, it might be worth trying the Rogue with the 3.7s. I still have my trusty old high current (200/350W) ADCOM to... | |
| Your favorite Electrostatic, Panel spkr @kgveteran For your room and style of music, I believe the Maggie 1.7s or 1.7is with well integrated subs, would be incredible. Over the years I've had many very nice speakers, but developed a particular fondness for stats and ribbons. For many ye... | |
| Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music Even though - with hundreds of CDs and hundreds of more LPs, many of which are early masters and I have no interest in switching gears to streaming - I don’t see streaming, as apposed to physical playback, as the problem. To each their own. I do h... | |
| Carver, THE standard of excellence IMO For many years Bob Carver and others have pushed the envelope to design and build innovative audio products. Bob Carver's new Crimson/Raven, tubed amps are not only innovative but have set a high standard of performance and affordability.As I love... | |
| Magnepans or...Martin Logan As a current owner of the Maggie 1.7 and having owned many other speakers, both box and other ribbons and stats and most costing considerably more than the 1.7s, I can say, I am quite impressed and satisfied with the little Maggies. They do requir... | |
| The term "High End" needs to die. Long live Hi-Fidelity! In general, I agree with Eric. When I first became interested in Hi-Fi home stereo, back in the mid to late 70s, the term High End Audio was loosely used, referring to audio systems, speakers and components, that were above and beyond (in terms of... | |
| Musicians in your living room vs. you in the recording hall? @glupson Concerts, classical music, are not hi-fi. It is much more bland. Two Bluetooth speakers ran by an iPod are more "exciting". Over the years, I've gone to and enjoyed, in various ways, many live performances, in about every genre and every ... | |
| Perception Aside from trying to find new and mystic ways to keep those never ending, pesky Martian dust storms or the perpetual spinning of the earth from screwing up our perception of how our system sounds, we should, from time to time, remember what it is ... |