livinon2wheels
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| Burn Twetter Speaker While its possible there may be a component problem in one of the speaker crossovers, it's my opinion that you need a lot more amplifier than you currently have and my guess is you would turn up your current amplifier even more if you could do it ... | |
| An audio component you just can't let go I have to list equipment that was lost in a house fire this year as equipment I would have never sold or willingly parted with. a pristine pair of VMPS tower II SE speakers that served as the mains in the theater room and in equally high status wa... | |
| Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget How about a pair of Legacy Audio Signatures - very neutral with good extended bass, extended highs and no emphasis anywhere in the audio band. Expensive small tower sealed cabinet speaker that can be placed against the wall for right at 11k for th... | |
| Are Ohm Walsh Speakers the Poor Man's MBLs? Here's an idea...How about the walsh 5000 married to the tweeter from the MBL either with or without the acoustic blocking used at the back of the walsh driver. Would that not give us jaded audiophiles what we are looking for all in one package? A... | |
| Clipping with Separates with change of Power Conditioner[?] Harpo75, you did what I am planning to do as my house is rebuilt - put 3 20 amp circuits dedicated to listening room with sub panel in the listening room so I can kill all power in that room during electrical storms - power conditioning for low c... | |
| Speaker Suggestions for Next Move If you already have heavily modded Khorns and still want more, I'm going to jump on the "work on the listening room" bandwagon or the electronic equivalent by measuring room response and figuring out how best to improve it with PEQ. In the 'buy an... | |
| The Low Volume Loudness Dilemma @Crustycoot - I have a couple of questions about Yamaha's YPAO function. All the Yamaha equipment I have owned predates YPAO so I have no clue how well it works although I have read some favorable comments online. That said, does this room compens... | |
| Guitar playing audiophiles, Martin or Taylor? I have 4 bass guitars, an old 80s vintage Fender 4 string, a Yamaha 5 string, and 2 Ibanez, the cheaper of the two is my favorite to play. Its not finished nearly as well as the more expensive Ibanez but oddly seems to play better. You would think... | |
| Mark Knopfler & James Taylor Pretty much anything by Fleetwood Mac from the Rumours Album forward, but even the old Bare Trees album was good. Knopfler rocks...maybe my favorite artist ever. Almost anything he has done resonates with me. Emmy Lou Harris, has done a bucket loa... | |
| Integrated amp for Legacy Focus speakers IIRC the focus se is the unpowered version | |
| Integrated amp for Legacy Focus speakers Arent the focus xd speakers blessed with built in amps? | |
| No love for Legacy Audio At the same time I had those my dad had a pair of the legacy signatures (first generation) and the VMPS blew those away in every department. But that isnt a really fair comparison but it does say a lot for the VMPS competency | |
| No love for Legacy Audio @steve59 I once had a pair of the VMPS tower II special editions and I loved them. One of the most stunningly competent speakers I have ever heard. The Focus SEs appear to me from just comparing the speaker complement and specs to be as close to t... | |
| Ohm Speakers Status Update One day before too much time passes...we are in an apartment temporarily with little insulation. We had em cranked pretty good for tonights movie. :) My temp cure is thru adding high freq eq and that makes them tolerable but these are seriously la... | |
| The Medical Explanation Of Why You Are Addicted To HiFi Audio That said, if that bad habit leads me to the joy of appreciating good music accurately reproduced without the inconvenience of traveling to a live venue to hear it then its the kind of therapy that makes life worth living. Music therapy keeps me s... |