lightminer
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| How do you determine how much to spend on speakers Mr Tennis - I just spoke to Soundlabs and tried to resurrect the Rennaisance - that was exactly what I wanted. They build-to-order, so they considered it, but in the end they didn't go for it. Part of it is because I wanted it for 5 or 6 or maybe ... | |
| Which allround speaker ? Oh and for box speakers one of my current favourite lines is Von Schweikerts, not mentioned so far. The one in your price range is VR-4SR Mk II, 12k I think. A short blurb from their page to show what level of speaker we are talking about here:"St... | |
| Which allround speaker ? Dude!!!! For that kind of money you are getting into some serious electrostatic territory. Have you tried electrostatics/planars? Here are some examples in your price range (prices in dollars):Sound Labs Millenium 3 - maybe 7 - 12k? Note that they... | |
| Is there such a speaker...(loud but smooth)? Several speakers have tweeter attenuators, among them the Magnepan 3.6s. With some speakers you can bi-amp, and then you can put small resistors in-line with the tweeter section.Also, for 'loud' listening sessions maybe just put a washcloth or sou... | |
| Wadia CD players direct to power amps opinions I don't think I'm adding much here as it looks like the topic is well covered, but from the Supratek threads I have yet to hear anyone say their direct system got worse adding a Supratek pre to the chain. I would think people with Wadia could affo... | |
| New models from Magnepan? FWIW (not much) I called them a month or two ago and asked the same question, they said nothing new. They are focusing right now on the AV market and are interested in beefing up their offerings on that side. I did what I consider a lot of researc... | |
| Innersound Speakers Since I made an on-topic comment, here is an off-topic comment. In response to one very minor issue above, the dsp, it seems that graphic equalizers are coming back. The way to do it, however, is not necessarily associated with the speaker, but in... | |
| Innersound Speakers Going back to the original question, I came darn close to getting some Isis mkIII speakers. I auditioned them for several hours, and decided that off axis they did not loose that sense of live music being played in a realistic manner (which is the... | |
| Pass Labs Aleph Question - balanced vs unbalanced? Agreed - I know he is big on 'fewer gain stages are better' in general, maybe it skips some amplification circuitry - shorter circuit path? Must be something like that. With pin in place it must somehow participate in circuitry involved with the b... | |
| Pass Labs Aleph Question - balanced vs unbalanced? A quick comment about the shorting pin - I don't know why but my current Comcast HDTV feed is very low in volume. Commercials are normal, which is infuriating as I have the volume super high for the show, and then the commercials are defeaning - b... | |
| Sound Labs Renaissance - anyone heard them? Thanks! Yeah, Renaissance seems dead. I spoke to the SoundLabs people today. Also got a listen (had to sit through 2.5 hrs traffic to hear them) to some of the huge Soundlabs. Very nice! When talking to them I recommended that Soundlabs come out w... | |
| VonSchweikert VR4JR vs Magenpan MG 1.6 I'm about to get new speakers and considered exactly the same 2 you are considering. As well as a used Innersound Kachina or Isis - but small sound stage eventually made that option go away (inside the sweet spot - those are shockingly good speake... | |
| Am I Bad Listener? Find some tracks that are demanding in different ways. When people move up from a 1500 device to a 2000, or even just to a different 1500 device (or more well chosen 1000 device :) ) it can often not be heard on a 'normal' track. You've got to fin... | |
| Pass Labs Aleph Question - balanced vs unbalanced? Wloeb - I thought something like that may be the case - because Nelson Pass says in his materials that air is single ended in how it relates to sound and that made me think the words meant something else... Okay - so the Pass Alephs are internally... | |
| Pass Labs Aleph Question - balanced vs unbalanced? Right - but remember I have no hum in my system on RCA cables at full pre-amp output and CD player having just played music and then hitting pause and turning pre-amp all the way up... So in that case then there is no reason to convert back and fo... |