joncourage
Responses from joncourage
| Affordable "audiophile" network player? Squeezebox Touch hands-down. | |
| Comments on Amphion Speakers, Please Have had Argons in my system for about 7 years or so, and no intention of replacing them. I don't find them bright or harsh at all. As someone above said and as advertised, they are to my ear very neutral in a musical way.Quick, punchy bass, clear... | |
| Amp recommendations sought Mostly for the convenience of hdmi switching for multiple devices -- ps3, apple tv, Xbox. I couldn't figure out a way to pump sound from all those plus the transporter into an integrated. Maybe I just missed something in thinking about it though. ... | |
| Comparison of Amphion Argon2 & Focal Chorus 807V Initial reaction is the Argon might be a lot of speaker for your setup. The Argons are not a small speaker. Maybe consider the Helium? I'd suggest writing the guys at Amphion to get their opinion.fwiw - I listened to a pair of Chorus floorstanders... | |
| Comparison of Amphion Argon2 & Focal Chorus 807V I own a pair of the Argons, and recently auditioned the Focal Profile 908's (but not in my system).Imo the two don't compare. The Argons are signicantly better in many ways. More dynamic range (the Focals sounded flat to me), punchier, much better... | |
| Your Music Server - Sony Vaio running SlimServer 6.5- USB-attached 500GB hard drive and backup 500GB drive- About 7000 songs ripped mostly to FLAC using EAC eating up about 165GB- Laptop cabled to a Linksys Wireless G Access Point- SlimDevices Squeezebox 3 (wireles... | |
| comparing monitors I'm very happy with the Amphion Argons.Haven't heard some of the ones mentioned above, but have compared these to Linn Helix, Totem Arro, B&W 805, and JMLab Profile 908s.The Argons have imo more than enough bass for a medium-sized room (40hz),... | |
| Picking a mid-tier HT receiver for optimal audio Because I can't audition easily, based on the various online reviews and what I've read here and elsewhere, I'm starting to focus my search on (used):Arcam AVR300 and the NAD T773.I'd still consider the Outlaw 1070 and Marantz 8500 if I came acros... | |
| Picking a mid-tier HT receiver for optimal audio Guess I meant the R965.... whoops.How about thoughts on:ArcamAnthemMarantzrelative to the ones previously mentioned...???Any clear leaders for 2-ch audio in the group? | |
| Stereophile review of the T-Amp The Squeezebox and a Super-T make for a killer 2nd or 3rd of 4th system. Put a setup like this in every room in the house and you won't have spent much to have excellent sounding music everywhere you go. | |
| Comparing some mid-line interconnects - thoughts? These will be used between DAC and (integrated) solid state amp, approx. 1 meter length altho .5m might also work.Far as copper/silver, shielded/not, I can't say - I'm more interested in what delivers the goods, in that price range, opposed to spe... | |
| Comparing some mid-line interconnects - thoughts? Yes, I'm sorry - that's true the Cheetah's are on the expensive side.I should have worded my inquiry differently:"What ICs in the ~$300-350 used price-range would compare favorably to the AQ Cheetah?" | |
| Stands made a huge difference Moving the speakers out from the walls did help some. Thanks. | |
| Question about bi-wired speakers On my Amphion Argons and Totem Arros, I've tried both ways and prefer bi-wired to jumpered. However, I haven't had particularly high-quality jumpers to use for comparison.Amphion recommended *not* bi-wiring, however.In the end, as mentioned, speak... | |
| Impact of Walker Audio Extreme SST I'm not sure I understand how putting something between 2 contacts could enhance the sound, other than by keeping the surface of the contacts clean over time.Logically, I look at it this way: the best contact you can get between to surfaces is mat... |