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| Small-ish Speakers That Come Alive At Low Volume Given your budget, I might suggest a few other choices:Aerial Acoustics 5BHarbeth HL-P3ES2Joseph Audio RM7XLRefernce 3A DulcetSpender SA1 | |
| B&W's objective opinions lean or accurate If size and placement is an issue, you might want to look at PSB Imagine or Synchrony lines as an alternative to B&W for combined music and HT duty. Vandersteen 3As are not ideal given your circumstances as they are relatively big and need roo... | |
| Small-ish Speakers That Come Alive At Low Volume The French have it - in addition to the Titus, I suggest the Focal Chorus 805V or 806V, although I don't recall if their ports fire to the front. I also like the Rega RS1 for this application (which, of course, is not French). | |
| Best Match for Dynaudio Contour S3.4? Fredorama,Were the Odyssey's new? I have read they take "FOREVER" to break in fully, as much as 250 hours of use and several months, not just being turned on for a few weeks... YMMVhttp://www.soundstage.com/revequip/odysseyaudio_stratos.htm | |
| Integrated recomendation for Quad 22l2 Good choice, I was going to suggest a used Naim Nait 5. | |
| how to side-grade from B&W 805's? $6K? I thought Koven said $1.5K... give or take a few hundred.Here is another vote for the PSB Imagine T. I auditioned some of these a few days ago with a modest ARC pre and tube power amp, a Simaudio Moon 5.3 CDP and they were absolutely wonderfu... | |
| Recommendation for Music/Movies - B&W, Paradigm... No worries, you are on the right track. | |
| Three best audiophile CD/LP in your collection I am beginning to believe that there is something to the hot stamper theory RE vinyl - that some indvidual pressings are much better than others, regardless of whether they are "audiophile" or even "heavy" vinyl. Case in point, my best reference r... | |
| Basic Preamp - suggestions? To the above suggestions I would add the Hafler DH-101. I would just pull the trigger on something recommended above and listen to see if it rings your bells - not all old NAD, Adcom, etc. were equally adept, nor will all match well with your amp.... | |
| B&W's objective opinions lean or accurate With the McCormack electronics and your interest in a more honest and musical sound, I would look at a system built around the Vandersteen 3A. | |
| The Next Step - what would you do? Number 3 sounds good in theory - otherwise I vote for Number 2 or Tonywinsc's suggestion - or Number 2 and Tonywinsc's suggestion. | |
| Has anyone tried the Shunyata Diamondback PC? I have posted previously on this cord.http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?fcabl&1107764210&read&keyw&zzshunyata=diamondbackStill using it and like it very much. | |
| Recommendation for Music/Movies - B&W, Paradigm... That is like asking us whether you should buy a Honda or a Ford, and then telling us you would really prefer a Jaguar. I like Jaguars too. You will enjoy your new speakers. | |
| Best Speakers match for NAD C372 I happened to be auditioning NAD amps and some of the speakers mentioned above this week - I think Hieule 5 and Kbakamian are barking up the right trees. What I heard that sounded good with NAD:-Paradigm Monitor 9 ( I liked the Paradigm SE in this... | |
| Recommendation for Music/Movies - B&W, Paradigm... All the speakers I recommended were stand mounts except the Paradigms - I think their better stand mounts would not match as well with the Onkyo. Good luck. |