kennymacc
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| Can you live with your current speaker until you die? Some are never ever satisfied with their speakers or anything else, no matter how much they paid for them either, and will spend the rest of their lives buying speakers. There’s not a darned thing wrong with that. These types of audiophiles, howev... | |
| magnepan Magnepan never stocks their speakers, as all their models are made to order. I thought, by now, this was common knowledge. I was fortunate to have a dealer in my area, so I audition and then ordered my 1.7i through them. Once ordered, l had to wai... | |
| New DAC with streamer Ayre Acoustics QX-5 Twenty DAC/Streamer!!!! You would not be disappointed. | |
| "The Ultra High-End Speaker." Steve59: You are correct. Based on my own personal experience, the Hegel H390 are definitely underpowering the Revel Salon 2 speakers. I tried it and experienced the same underwhelming results that you did. The H390 doesn't have enough juice t... | |
| California Audio Show 2023 I attended. It was extremely downsized from the previous shows but I was just happy that there was a show to go to in the SF Bay area again. However, it was an outstanding show just the same. Hopefully in the future the CAS will continue to gro... | |
| "The Ultra High-End Speaker." My point being: There's a number of super high quality moderately priced speakers out there like mine that perform at such high levels of proficiency and produce such astonishingly superb sound quality that, inch for inch, pound for pound, one ha... | |
| Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!! Over the years, my speaker "Revolving-door" was a learning process for me, experimenting with different speakers and different types of speakers, making new discoveries, and having lots of fun in the process. However, all that speaker experimentat... | |
| Have you found your "End-Game" speakers yet? I have. And it feels so good!!! hilde45 "Genuine question? Absolutely. But high end audio is journey and, like myself, at some point, after experimenting with multiple speakers over time, so many of us really do come across a special speaker that they actually keep for........"D... | |
| Help settle a streaming argument! Everything matters and effects SQ, including a higher quality streamer, of course. | |
| Should I graduate to floor standers or will larger bookshelves suffice? Floor standers!!! | |
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| Bowers & Wilkins 801D4 Signature I say, If you can afford the upgrade, don't even think about it, trust your dealer and go with the upgrade. There's a good chance that your dealer knows what he's talking about. In the long-run, you'll regret not buying the better speaker. | |
| SVS or REVEL Subwoofer Try them both and see which one you like best and then keep it. | |
| Why Streaming Service Sounds ‘Flat’ vs Tune In /Local FM /Radio Paradise Short answer: #1 Get a better streamer #2 Buy tweaks that clean up streaming signal #3 Further enhanced power conditioning in your room. | |
| Are cable “upgrades” just as likely to make your system sound worse? There ya go!!!!! Easy one.......Only buy cables that you can return, as trial and error is almost always the order of the day in high end audio. |