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Acoustic Zen Crescendo Mk2 or Daedalus Ulysses v2
have you considered any dynaudios. 
High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz
The problem with this thread is there is no tolerance for anything except gushing about the products. That reeks of bias and limits any value in any case. But there is no law against it so rave on. It is what it is. 
High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz
I'd just like to know what people gushing actually paid, if not the list price. Its a fair question. Nobody is answering it though. 
High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz
Fwiw I asked early on if anyone here doing the gushing actually paid asking retail price and did not see any responses. Gushing by known paying customers carries more weight for me. 
What is the best HEAVY METAL speaker?
Most any ohm Walsh suitably sized to room with appropriate amplification. 
Secondary listening systems
Moving gear around to different rooms helps one better understand how room acoustics affect the sound and provides ample opportunity to tweak and learn. 
Secondary listening systems
There is no rule that says you can only have one really good system. Once you set the bar it's fun to try to match it in different ways. Helps one better deal with upgradeitis as well. Headphone rigs count as well. The Internet and digital streami... 
Best Bat out of Hell recording
I was listening to my ripped from relatively recent remastered cd version a bit yesterday. Recording is about par for most rock pop recordings, not bad but lacking any soundstage depth and limited dynamics. Otherwise not bad for what it is. 
High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz
Mine too. 
High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz
from where I stand DD is a shill for this product plain and simple. Must have some kind of financial tie in to the product. Maybe I'm missing something but that's about all I can see. 
High Fidelity Cables CT-1designed by Rick Schultz
one of these days someone will sell a uber expensive wire and then after further research publicly proclaim that its not so great as its price tag would suggest. Without then immediately coming up with the mkII version to replace it for even more,... 
worst sounding great lps
I wish relayer by yes was better. 
worst sounding great lps
I was just listening to machine head. It ain't bad at all. Bat out of hell is two dimensional and lacking dynamics but ok otherwise. 
Single driver speakers without the pitfalls?
There is one room in my house without sound that a smaller pair of single driver full range speakers would fit into nicely along with a small tube amp. I would only use them for applications involving lower listening volume for sure. 
Would vinyl even be invented today?
Terabytes of digital data on an analog record....now there is some weird science.