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| Walking Into A Brick & Mortar High End Audio Store Isn't it kinda simple? The barebones no frills cheap price can be had impersonally and at potential risk online or you can go to your friendly local hifi emporium to be catered to and demonstrated and educated. Either way you get the product. If y... | |
| Audiophile Active Speakers? I am frankly surprised there isn't much more interest in this topic. After all, it would appear that a high percentage of us ask questions reflecting an inability to overcome many of the difficulties one can encounter trying to match speakers, cab... | |
| Audiophile Active Speakers? Thanks Bob. As I mentioned above, I just received a pair of KRK Rokit8 active monitors, a 2 way with dome tweeter and 8 inch woofer. I'm quite surprised at how they are turning out but I can certainly see your point about going to a 3-way. Do you ... | |
| Audiophile Active Speakers? Does anyone here have personal experience with the PMC ALM 1 speakers?Also - can someone tell me which ATC speaker would be the direct competitor?I'm beginning to see the wisdom in this approach. | |
| Walking Into A Brick & Mortar High End Audio Store I haven't been in an audio store in at least 10 years. Am I missing anything? After I don't know how many years of selling this stuff, I do not get the urge. The last audio show I attended I was an exhibitor and I think that was close to 20 years ... | |
| Bose 901 series VI & Yamaha A-S2000 Timlub - Would you be able to speculate about the parts cost in the 901s? And for now disregard the 60% bulk discount that Bose surely sees?After I see your guess, I'll offer mine. | |
| The End Of Big Iron? I believe I will accept your invitation and say you are certainly crazy to invest that much in that amp. However, I give you credit for putting your money (lots of it) where your mouth is. You sound very happy and for all I know, in the long run, ... | |
| The End Of Big Iron? I think there was an escalating contest among "big iron" manufacturers of the day. Consumers tend to latch onto categorical assets, real or otherwise, and when makers get that scent they run with it. In the case of the amps in question, momentum c... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? Children are more qualitatively than quantitatively driven. Recognition of quality comes into thinking and evaluation as an individual evolves from child to adult. It is wrong to believe that adulthood is met at a scheduled time threshold like age... | |
| Audiophile Active Speakers? Today I received my KRK Rokit8 monitors I bought through Amazon. They are internally bi-amped, have some Kevlar like material in the woofer cones ,and tone controls and adjustable gain on the back. I paid $221.40 each including shipping. I hooked ... | |
| Why Merlins sound better then Sonus Faber The title of this thread betrays a bias and presumption that automatically nullifies the neutrality with which I might otherwise approach its content. My first tendency upon reading your heading says "troll alert".The more learned among us repeat ... | |
| great headphone amplification in vintage gear? Dave - You'll probably have this question answered before Audiogon prints this response, but just in case, here goes.Receivers of that era often had provision for multiple speaker connections with some means of selecting the speakers you want to p... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? Frogman - You seem to be conflating two topics here. Just as spirituality existed for centuries before churches co-opted it, so too did music exist for eons before electricity enabled the music industry. The beauty and majesty, the spiritual uplif... | |
| Audiophile Active Speakers? I just ordered a pair of KRK Rokit 8 powered monitors for the bedroom TV and my computer desk in the same room. Reputation is very good but I chose a discontinued model thinking that these would be half the price of the VXT 8 and probably almost a... | |
| High End Audio-Gaining Higher Ground? We are aging. In another 10 years our numbers will be drastically reduced by various causes. Death, dementia, hearing loss, income loss, home loss, and loss of interest are all taking their toll gradually. I was born in 1947 and I've noticed that ... |