jonwolfpell
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| Burn in period Love the comments! Hilarious. I am not sure about cables having to “break in” to sound their best. It could be simply that it’s our ears & mind getting accustomed to the new sound?? No doubt cables of all types in a system sound differently fr... | |
| How does solo piano help you evaluate audio gear? While I agree that we’ll recorded piano is excellent in some ways for testing speakers & whole systems in terms of tone, body & real subtlety, I think in many ways well recorded drums can be even better. Bass drums, tom toms, snares, cy... | |
| High End Intergraded comparisons, Marantz, McIntosh, Levinson, Luxman.... You might consider one of the Rogers High Fidelity tube integrateds. Great sound, powerful, tight & nuanced like only the best solid state amps can do. Rock solid build quality, point to point wiring, full lifetime warranty! Pricey but worth i... | |
| Why People Like Tekton Tektons have one tweeter? Sure looks like they have MANY from the pics on their website…… I’ve never heard them & I’m all for smaller manufacturers to compete with the often overpriced big names. I’m just curious about their design & how s... | |
| Why People Like Tekton Some funny comments here! What I don’t understand & hopefully someone can help is how many speakers have only one tweeter & sound relatively balanced w/ nice extended high end & others like Tektons , McIntosh etc have many tweeters &am... | |
| The worst sentence in audio writing It seems to me that Erik may have reached the limit of one or more of the following: patience, funding, live music listening experience, the weak link of his particular system. There are so many diverse aspects of music & musical reproduc... | |
| Auto-Tune, Snake Oil, Fuses, Cables, Room Correction, Best DAC, Measurements & Tekton Maybe we should first question that human made light has no extended high or low frequencies, limited dynamic range, overly focused & doesn’t image well? Incandescent , fluorescent, halogen, xenon, LCD, LED etc all have their strengths &... | |
| Rogers High Fidelity Integrated amplifiers I’ve been using the ROGERS EFH 200 Mark II for about a month now & its an excellent piece of equipment. Very well made, sounds great w/ 2 KT 150’s per channel, powerful!, crystal clear, detailed & dead silent when it should be. Sounds co... | |
| Help with finding a new streamer. I recently bought an Innuos Zenith Mark III & use Qobuz through it as well as CD’s ripped into it. Sounds excellent ! It appears to be a very well engineered & built product & puts the focus on the quality of the components over looks... | |
| Big Below 15k used that can play loud as heck I thought I responded to this discussion already and if so, I apologize. Volti Audio Rivals are just about as efficient as any Klipsch, will play VERY loud with maybe 20 watts and sound better than any of them. The hand built quality of construct... | |
| Sound Any music reproduction you enjoy is a good "system". While the high end stuff can get absurdly pricey, I think you can actually get better sound for the $ (adjusted for inflation) today than you could in the 70's. From $100 headphones to half mil... | |
| Kef LS50s - great like me but need to come up for air How about the new KLH 5 recently reviewed by Stereophile? I think they're $2000 for the pair, not too big & if they are basically a modern version of the classic KLH/ AR / Advent sound, might be just what you want. Smooth, laid back w/ excelle... | |
| Seeking advice for speakers for my Family Room Look into the Volti Audio Razz. $6000 for the pair. Very efficient, dynamic, not harsh or bright. The midrange is so fast & clear , would be great for music & dialogue for movies. I don’t think they make a center channel model but talk w/ ... | |
| Paypal Changes for 2022 So I buy a pair of speakers for $5000 & sell them a few years later for $3000 on Audiogon using PayPal, isn’t that then a $2000 “loss” that I can deduct from my taxable income? It should work both ways of at all. That $3000 Isn’t income or a c... | |
| Big Below 15k used that can play loud as heck Do try the Volti Audio Rivals! Very efficient (98 + db according to Stereophile), can play VERY loud w/ not many good watts & most importantly, sound excellent! Big, open, dynamic but also detailed, nuanced w/ a beautiful midrange & image.... |