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| Can "Dark"Sounding Speakers Be "Brightened"UP??? Back in the late 90's when I first heard the Concertinos at a Tweeter store, they were driven by a Marantz receiver (no idea on the model). Listened to a variety of material and I heard plenty of "sparkle" in the treble. Flash forward ten years an... | |
| SS or Tube for Sonus Faber Concertino? A couple of years ago I owned the original Concertinos for a few months and drove them with a VTL 50 watt tube amp. For me I felt that they sounded underpowered. I sold the Concertinos before I tried them with a different amp. Maybe my memory is f... | |
| best chinese tube amp under $1k? People knock Jolida but I've had pretty good luck with them. I currently have a Jolida 102b that I picked up here on Agon a couple months back for $350. I previously owned a Jolida 302b and the little FX10. For near field listening (which is what ... | |
| Can a rogue audio Cronus be used just as a preamp? Seems like total overkill to use a tube amp for preamp duties. Sell it and buy a used Rogue Metis or VTL preamp assuming you want a remote. | |
| Cambridge S30 and Jolida 102b Yeah that's pretty deep. The Minuets were just about perfect for desktop use. I think I'll just keep a look out for another used pair. Thanks for the help! | |
| Cambridge S30 and Jolida 102b I used to own the FX10 and Silverline Minuets. It was a decent setup but in the end I felt that the Minuets were a little under powered. On paper the S30s look to be more efficient and along with the extra 10 watts from the 102b I was thinking tha... | |
| Cambridge S30 and Jolida 102b How was the bass response with the FX10? | |
| Cambridge S30 and Jolida 102b Ha, ha... you sound worse than me. Any particular reason that you came back to the S30 after the Minuets? I kick myself for selling the Minuets since they're hard to come by used now. | |
| Jolida FX10 - KEF 103.2 Having owned both the Jolida and NAD and going by your music choices I recommend the NAD. I don't know much about KEF speakers. The Jolida is only 10 watts and would probably be fine at low volumes. However, once you turn it up, the bass response ... | |
| Internet Radio sounds better than ripped CDs. Why What I'm hearing with Apple lossless is a hardness and compressed sound. Whereas a station like TSF Jazz sounds much more open. It's not that I don't hear the compression especially during complex pieces but overall its much more listenable. Since... | |
| Internet Radio sounds better than ripped CDs. Why I have to agree with the original post. I'm using Apple lossless codec and through an Airport Express I find the results to be unsatisfactory. On the other hand some internet radio stations such as TSF Jazz which are streamed at 128 kbs sound almo... | |
| soft dome speakers In general terms, soft dome tweeters are easier on the ears are can be used with a wider variety of amps. For example the Sonus Faber Concertinos and now the Silverline Minuets that I own, both have soft dome tweeters and I find that both can soun... | |
| Best budget speakers for near-field/small space I owned a pair of Swan M200 a few years ago and I cannot really recommend them. They look nicer than they sound. I found them to be rather muffled like a blanket was hanging over them. I was giving them a pretty good source to playback at the time... | |
| Best budget speakers for near-field/small space I owned a pair of Swan M200 a few years ago and I cannot really recommend them. They look nicer than they sound. I found them to be rather muffled like a blanket was hanging over them. I was giving them a pretty good source to playback at the time... | |
| Best budget speakers for near-field/small space I just set up a pair of Silverline Minuets on my desk and they do really well for near field listening. They have a very big sound for being so small. I'm currently driving them with a Griffin Powerwave. The Powerwave is a class-T amp and only put... |