jhills
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| Is it a OK to leave tube pre-amps powede up 24/7 I have a Rouge integrated amp with stand-by soft start. Truthfully, after a half hour warm up it sounds great and additional hours of warm up seems to make no difference, so, except for periods when I plan to listen to music for a couple of days i... | |
| Help, my system sounds lifeless! Another very nice speaker for a small space is the Gershman Chameleon. A relatively small floor standing 2 way speaker with incredibly good detail, very nice with strings, vocals, horns and percussion and present a convincingly deep and wide stage... | |
| Honing down the speaker shortlist ~$5K I’m with malthuse on that. My first love was also the Quads - ESL 63.Particularly for the type of music you listen to. They don’t blow you away with huge dynamics or etched in glass detail, they just present a very wide and deep stage of convincin... | |
| Dark Side of the Moon - Is MFSL really all that? Don't know if anything will ever be quite as nice as Mobile Fidelities Original 1979 Direct to Disc Master Recording LP, taken direct to disc from the1973 studio cut.One of my all-time favorite LPs. Maybe it would be worth a bit today had I kept i... | |
| Speaker - Room/size dilemma Kalali, a note regarding the Magie 1.7: I do have and in a closely sized room, but only 11' H. sloping to 8' at the walls, Trying to accommodate WAF, I found at only 2' from the rear wall, just didn't work. Moved them out to 3' - much better and a... | |
| Speakers in the 5-6K$ region & their components Over the past 30 or so years, I've had and auditioned many very nice speakers - electrostatic, ribbon and box - the Quad ESL 63s one of my favorites. When I downsized my environment, I went on the search to find something in a small package that w... |