jon_5912
Responses from jon_5912
| Can anyone identify theses B&W speakers? The 803s look wider to me. They were the same height but had bigger woofers and were wider. | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused I've tried digital eq, active, etc. and my favorite system is my Thiel 3.7s with some moderately priced but high powered ab amps, a bryston analog preamp and benchmark dac2. I think my second favorite is turning out to be an old system I've got a... | |
| Can anyone identify theses B&W speakers? Nautilus 804 would be my guess. could be 803s, they looked very similar. | |
| Thiel Owners A few days in and I'm really enjoying some solo cello on my computer system. It can't be a coincidence, I never listen to classical here. And I'm sure it's low res, poorly recorded or something. Whatever it is I'm really enjoying it here and I ... | |
| OMG - Room Acoustics are Critical - WAF be dam-ed!. When it comes to the environment the most important thing in my experience has been to live in a house made out of wood. My first house was brick and plaster. It was impossible to get good sound there. I made dozens of bass traps and lots of ot... | |
| Thiel Owners Just hooked up the Viewpoints to my computer system. They're on the B speaker output of my 2001 Creek 5350SE. Audio is from PC through AudioQuest dragonfly red. The A output is on my 2010ish VA Mozart Grands. I've got $7k MSRP worth of speaker... | |
| Thiel Owners I just bought a pair of viewpoints off ebay for a few hundred bucks. They've been there for a while. I'm trying to stop being a dick on the internet but that's a great driver combo/crossover in a metal box. And I'm just buying it because I know... | |
| Headphone amp and dac advice needed I recently got the Dan Clark Aeon Noires and a Schiit Magni for the office. I already had a Fiio X7 I bought years ago. I've never been much of a headphones guy, I bought some Sennheiser HD 590s ~15 years ago but they broke. I bought some Sen... | |
| Recommendation on speakers for listening to live music For amplified live music ATC is hard to beat. They're better at high volume. They also manage bass better than most brands. This is one of those things that you need to experience and live with long enough to stop being emotional about it. A... | |
| Just received my B&W 802's: One tweeter doesn't work - HELP! There is a tiny wire to the coil and since the coil moves the wire constantly flexes and eventually will break. It may be visible, maybe need a magnifying class. My guess is that it's not fixable, at least not without specialized tools. I've ha... | |
| Bang & Olufsen beolab 90 $115,000 Pair I haven't listened to them and I wouldn't if I had the opportunity. They're a product priced at a point where they don't have to compete. And that's the point I think. Competition avoidance. It's super uninteresting. Throw in a bunch of crazy... | |
| Bang & Olufsen beolab 90 $115,000 Pair luxury = marketing to idiots. It's selling the sizzle with no steak. It's been around a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays | |
| The new dynamic in speaker pricing They're far too expensive for any dealer to have demo models so hardly anyone has ever heard them. That means they don't have to perform well. Someone with a lot of money who wants "the best" will buy them regardless of performance and some smal... | |
| Thiel Owners tomthiel - they sound great in bad rooms. I put my 2 2s in a reflective living room in a townhouse. It was a second system, not something I put effort into. Yeah, if you stand a foot away and change elevation you can hear dramatic changes. Oth... | |
| Thiel Owners Maybe some Thiels are bright but a big chunk of that is about something else. Maybe personal or political or oven some sort of ethnic thing. They're mostly not bright and mostly not that hard to drive. My 2 2s were slightly warm hooked up to a ... |