lowrider57
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| Speakers in the 5-6K$ region & their components What kind of overall sonics are you looking for within your budget? Musical, detailed, warm, neutral, laid-back or a forward presentation? | |
| Speakers in the 5-6K$ region & their components I think you’re too hung up on the cost of speaker components. The speaker design is what’s important, which would include quality drivers. Dynaudio is in your price range, quality components and sonics.Are you using SS or tube power? | |
| Dynaudio Focus 160 Place a "Wanted to buy" ad in the For Sale section. | |
| Calling all room treatment type specialists... +1 Erik. Would work better from a stylistic aspect to have a series of printed panels, rather than only one panel.As I stated earlier, the walls do need some areas of reflection and diffusion, otherwise the room will be over-damped. The poster may... | |
| Best Turntable for the Price - Linn Basik I see the Axis come up for sale from time to time on Ebay. Most are located in the UK. | |
| Schiit Multibits vs Chord Mojo I can understand them not getting into comparisons with other manufacturer's products, but to not comment on their own, makes no sense. Why buy a more expensive Schiit product if they can't even describe the differences?Not trying to get off to... | |
| HOLO Audio Spring DAC: Affordable discrete R2R Multibit Dac, could be a winner. Very interested, especially with upgraded transformers.Here’s a user review of the Level 3 DAC...http://www.head-fi.org/products/holo-audio-spring-rise-ji/reviews/16653 | |
| Yo Yo Ma - Leningrad - Rococo variations on a theme This looks good...https://www.amazon.com/Tchaikovsky-Gala-Leningrad/dp/B008XX6IAC/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&q...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxzAUfPPKBo&list=PLUSRfoOcUe4Y4qw3zaHKgfLguBiidQuMi | |
| Classical CD Box Sets @erik_squires DG was way behind other record labels in digital technology, so their 1980’s recordings were in a word, terrible. These were their early CD releases which had all the bad digital characteristics such as harshness, glare and their tec... | |
| Classical CD Box Sets DG had a lot of really good sounding stuff back when they had the so called tulip label. Was that in the 50s and 60s? Yes, the records with the tulips on the label are considered to be the higher quality recording period; 50s and 60s. http://www.m... | |
| Classical CD Box Sets Is it fair to characterise the Living Stereo set as coming from early stereo recordings, while Deutche Grammophone are much later? @erik_squires RCA Living Stereo are earlier recordings, but from the review I read, the disks are from the remastere... | |
| Classical CD Box Sets Charles Munch/Living Stereo and Dorati/Mercury are really outstanding conductors with top-class performances. I have many on single CD's.Although, older recordings, these are how symphonies and concertos should sound; minimal mic's with concert ha... | |
| Classical CD Box Sets Living Stereo 60 CD Collection Box... Excellent, 1st choice.https://www.amazon.com/Living-Stereo-60-Collection-Box/dp/B003UCPEJ2Mercury Living Presence IIhttps://www.amazon.com/Mercury-Living-Presence-Box-Set/dp/B00B7364H2/ref=pd_sim_15_1?ie=UTF8&... | |
| Used CM8 or 20 yrs old mint 804 Matrix? The CM series is the affordable line of speakers which were initially targeted at home theater users. I've heard a couple of the towers.The 804's are superior, but as you said, they are 20 years old.Are the surrounds in good condition, the crossov... | |
| Schiit Multibits vs Chord Mojo Thanks, guys. Will keep searching for user reviews. @edincleve, One thing I can tell you regarding the Chord DAC's is that they use wall-wart power supplies, whereas the Bifrost Multibit has an internal PSU and you can use your own power cord. I... |