mapman
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| Cheap Vibration Control Discovery -1 for the Machina Dynamica springs only because the vendor just up-voted himself. | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? Hey I honestly believe OHM got home audio speaker design right with the Walsh design and its huge sweet spot (practically the whole room) and most of the rest are barking up the wrong tree, so there you go. How many people really enjoy having t... | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? Zu has yet to even come close to grabbing me but many like them. I like the looks. | |
| adante If they are bigger than the average monitor and now going for a discount, then that sounds like a deal. More speaker per $$. Just match them up right as suggested which has to be done in most any case anyhow to get things to sound best.Also older ... | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? YEs, it is a loaded question for sure....In general, audiophiles will tend to underrate things while the rest of the world will lean the other way. | |
| What are some of the most underrated and overrated loudspeakers you’ve auditioned? Agree the very affordable for many KEF ls50 is not up to all the tasks people might expect given all the rave but often not very comprehensive reviews.From an ’audiophile" perspective, use the little guys properly though within their limits, with ... | |
| Hi-Fi Lo-Fi Streaming and portable audio is where its mostly at these days. | |
| Very small room systems and synergy Audio Note speakers always sound wonderful set up in the corners when I hear them. Worth pointing out that pretty much any speaker can be set up similarly with corner placement. Corner placement merely boosts bass levels. So trying any otherwise b... | |
| Very small room systems and synergy I mentioned small rooms only for ls50 but should also add amp matters a lot. They sounded weak and totally dreadful in my larger room off a highly regarded 180 w/ch zero feedback Class A ss amp when another agoner brought his pair over a couple of... | |
| Very small room systems and synergy Hmmm well you may have jumped the shark a bit comparing the sound of ls50s to early cheap boom boxes. I’ve heard ls50s sound both very good and very bad in my home. They are not at all suited for larger rooms. In smaller rooms they can shine. For ... | |
| The Best Compliment You've Gotten On Your Rig? A long time friend who is a musician and avid music lover but has no special focus on sound quality that I have ever detected was over listening with me the other day and commented how lifelike things sounded and correctly recognized the type and ... | |
| Kef vented tweeter Yes I can hear a similarity with Focals I have heard. B&W Nautilus is pricey. What other tweeter designs address this particular issue I wonder? Any similar to KEF with concentric driver design? I like that for coherent sound as well especiall... | |
| Bel Canto Ref 1000? If you can use 500w/ch and speakers are not a horrible load to drive those are an affordable option. I would not use them with a tube preamp in that they use native icepower modules with only 10kohm input impedance as I recall. I have ref1000m... | |
| Very small room systems and synergy Personally as much as I like what they can do I would probably not be satisfied with ls50 without a sub for serious listening. They are small. With Ohm Walsh you just need the right size with a good high current Class D amp for your room and lis... | |
| adante Yeah these got a lot of initial hype then fizzled out fast. Never had a chance to hear them. KEF R3 came along and is very good! |